Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- About the authors -- Introduction: The problem of literacy Long-running debates and -- Redesigning school literate practices: pedagogies of possibility -- Educational leadership and turn-around literacy pedagogies -- Supporting Improved Literacy Achievement (SILA) pilot project -- Overview of the book -- References -- Chapter 1 Poverty now -- Place: tracing the production of poverty -- Policy: the emergence and development of inequality as an issue of concern in education in Australia and the United Kingdom -- People: living in poverty -- Educational research in the north: key contributions to understanding poverty -- Making the Difference (Connell et al., 1982) and Teachers' Work (Connell, 1985) -- Schooling the Rustbelt Kids (Thomson, 2002) -- Redesigning Pedagogies in the North (RPiN) project (Hattam et al., 2009) -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 Studying schools -- The schools and their communities -- Leadership and literacy in the four schools: an introduction -- Hogwarts: a short-term, targeted intervention -- Enrichment programme to support growth -- Supporting a range of needs -- Studying the four schools -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Educational leadership practices: Making and remaking the school -- Poverty and its effects come to school -- Making sense of what is made visible in the work of leaders -- The dilemmas of leaders' work -- Changing pedagogy through whole-school agreements -- Practising 'educational' leadership whilst responding to demands for performativity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Uncommon pedagogies -- Teachers who stood out from their peers