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DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP CAPACITY
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Armstrong Middle School in Starkville, Mississippi is an AIM school that has succeeded in building leadership capacity to improve student achievement.

AIM's spring 2003 feature story, "Changes that Stick: Building Leadership to Succeed with AIM Implementation," details many of the leadership practices at Armstrong and in the Starkville district that have made Armstrong and Starkville models of school improvement.

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Linda Lambert's 1998 book, Building Leadership Capacity in Schools, outlines five critical features of high leadership capacity:

• Broad-based, skillful participation in the work of leadership
• Inquiry-based use of information to inform shared decisions and practice
• Roles and responsibilities that reflect broad involvement and collaboration
• Reflective practice/innovation as the norm
• High student achievement

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