Secondary level educators will welcome this hands-on guide to starting and sustaining a schoolwide literacy initiative aimed at overcoming critical issues in adolescent literacy and improving student achievement. Based on a Leadership Model for Improving Adolescent Literacy, this practical text is essential for principals, literacy coaches, teacher leaders, and others who are responsible for literacy programs. Each chapter is filled with concrete suggestions for using data, supporting teachers to improve instruction, building leadership capacity, allocating resources to improve student literacy, and questions and statements for discussion. Additional resources include more than 25 diagnostic tools that will also be posted online.