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Caldwell  \nMany nations’governments are requiringschoolsto bring about significant,systematic,andsustainedchangetoimprovestudentoutcomesinallsettings,and have imposed mandatestoensurethatschoolsare providing quality education and running efficiently and effectively. Consequently, nationalandstatetestingprograms,standards-basedagendas,and reporting methodologieshavebeenimposedonschoolswithsignificantdemandsand, in manycases,demoralizingoutcomes(Hargreaves2003).Asa resultof theseprocesses,testquestionshavebecomethecurriculum;teacherjudgment hasbecomeundervalued;andevidencethat is ill-informed,outdated, andincorrecthasbeenusedtodriveschoolchange.  \nMany school leaders have responded in good faith to the growing demands for evidence, spending days and weeks gathering data in the hope that they will create sustainable learning plans for individual students and gain adequate funding to run school programs. There are, however, serious disconnects between what is taught and observed in the classroom, and what is collected, categorized, and reported by the school. Evidence about practice that is meant to inform and appease politiciansand the public and the use of evidence in practice to improve teaching and learning quality rarely have been linked.  \nThe most intelligent use of evidence is not after the event. Postmortems may establish the cause of death, but they cannot bring a corpse back to life. Yet, most uses of evidence in education—league tables, test scores, and school reports—have this after-the-fact characteristic. The challenge for leaders is to collect and report data and be able to internalize it at the right time for the right reasons for the right students.  \n182  \nEssays  \nHow organizations use evidence is connected integrally to how they create and manage knowledge—the knowledge of how to share practice, how to transfer it between people, how to alter and improve it, and how to explain and account for it to others (Caldwell 2004; Drucker 1999; Hargreaves 2003). Evidence-based leadership linkshow evidence is used to how well the school operates and improves.  \nPrincipal Jenny Lewis at Noumea Primary School in Australia has identified and collected authentic and authoritative evidence and related it to learning as a means of improving organizational effectiveness and performance. As a result, Noumea staff members have become “skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights”(Garvin 1993, 16) . The school community has built an evidence-based environment that promotes sustainability through innovative and informed Evidence-Based Leadership inAction—a reform that has become embedded in teachers’ practices and the school’s operations.  \nThe Context for Evidence-Based Leadership  \nNoumea Primary is a large public school (580 students) in a low socioeconomic area west of Sydney in the state of New South Wales. The student population is transitional with 43 percent of the students leaving and enrolling each year and 62 percent being of Polynesian or indigenous descent. Many families are now third and fourth generation unemployed. School staff members continually change as the principal encourages them to seek promotions in other schools after five years of service at Noumea. Newly appointed teachers fill these openings, meaning that 83 percent of staff members always are in their first five years of teaching. Until ten years ago, Noumea was identified as a school at significant risk (DeLong and Fahey 2000; Garvin 1993) . Since then, Noumea has rebuilt itself as a learning organization, basing its reforms on knowledge creation and sharing.  \nNoumea was included in the top 25 (out of 2,200) government and nongovernment schools in New South Wales for outstanding improvement in basic skills mathematics in 2000. 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