The school leader of the future must deliberately and proactively re-connect schools to their communities, creating schools that are hubs for their communities. Indeed, school leaders must encourage achievement, but the bold leader is skeptical of reform methods that assume that race, economic class, family background, and so forth do not matter. The bold leader instead works closely with the community to ensure a powerful connection between all aspects of the school and the community. In sum, the bold leader enacts equity within communities by ensuring that the school and the community are on the same page. Lessons from Bold Educational Leaders: Leading the Whole Community offer lessons on how bold leaders achieved varied goals related to the communities in which their schools reside. The contributors of this book are leaders who have stayed committed to their neighborhoods and who have seen the moral imperative to provide equal opportunity to all students. This book shares their lessons, particularly looking at community-based schools in urban, impoverished, or immigrant communities communities that often are disconnected from the political and economic centers of the country. and "