Corwin & George S. S. Perry 
Equity Warriors [EPUB ebook] 
Creating Schools That Students Deserve

Foreword by Larry Leverett
Introduction
Preface: Begin with Students
Part I: Build an Equity Agenda: Student Data
Chapter 1: District leaders define equity by knowing students and finding allies
Politics: Balance conflicts to build an equity agenda
Diplomacy: Build a critical mass of support for advancing equity
Warfare: Use student data to convince, question, and teach
Chapter 2: School leaders center the equity agenda on student experiences
Politics: Engage the school community in shaping and telling the school’s story
Diplomacy: Rally stakeholders to your school’s equity agenda
Warfare: Know your students
Part II: Lead with Purpose: Values-Enhanced Leadership
Chapter 3: District leaders identify and engage with shared values
Politics: Surface and articulate values
Diplomacy: Lead change focusing on values
Warfare: Act with purpose, understanding, and resolve
Chapter 4: School leaders communicate and live their values, and expect the same from others
Politics: Help others stand with you
Diplomacy: Link values to intended outcomes
Warfare: Act deliberately
Part III: Educate Each and Every Student Well: Teaching & Learning
Chapter 5: District leaders focus and maintain attention on teaching and learning
Politics: Bring coherence to systems, structures, resources, stakeholders, and culture
Diplomacy: Build expertise and capacity around teaching and learning
Warfare: Act with a laser-like focus on teaching and learning
Chapter 6: School leaders ensure each and every student succeeds
Politics: Bring coherence to provide access to rigorous learning for all students
Diplomacy: Use protocols and processes to build capacity
Warfare: Hold everyone in the school accountable for student learning
Epilogue

Joan Richardson is known as an excellent editor, writer, and researcher with deep expertise about education and for being a creative and strategic thinker who excels at transforming publications and rethinking organizational efforts to deepen impact in schools and influence quality of learning. In addition to spending hundreds of hours visiting U.S. schools, she also has extensive experience visiting and writing about schools abroad — Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Haiti, and the Netherlands. She was editor-in-chief of Phi Delta Kappan magazine, the flagship publication of PDK International, for 10 years and also director of the PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, the nation’s longest-running public opinion survey about K-12 education. Before joining PDK in 2008, she served as communications director for the National Staff Development Council (now Learning Forward) for 12 years. In that position, she was executive editor of JSD and also the creator, editor, and writer for the NSDC newsletters — The Learning Principal, The Learning System, Tools for Schools, and Teachers Teaching Teachers (T3) — and manager of the organization’s extensive web site. She also directed NSDC’s book publishing operations, web site, and its media outreach efforts. Prior to her work in the nonprofit sector, she worked for 22 years as a newspaper reporter and editor. In her last newspaper job with the Detroit Free Press, she focused on issues and trends in education, including coverage of the early days of charter schools in Michigan. Her previous newspaper jobs included stints at the Indianapolis Star and the Peoria Journal Star. She designed and launched All Things PLC, a magazine published by Solution Tree Press. She is the author of From the Inside Out: Learning from the Positive Deviance in Your Organization (NSDC, 2004). She served on the Grosse Pointe (Mich.) Board of Education for six years, including one term as president. Joan was a Michigan Journalism Fellow (1988-89) studying the economics of globalization on American business and American life. She received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and history from Indiana University.