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DCHAPTERONEBack to basics. LAURIEBARRON would have excused her understudies and associates if they’d fitted her office with a spinning entryway before her first day as principal of Smokey Road Middle School in Newnan, Georgia. All things considered, the school had been open for just five years, and it had just observed four other principals. “It wasn’t that we had poor or ineffectual pioneers,” she let me know. “In fact, the greater part of those pioneers who went before me were extremely effective, older principals. Three of them became administrators. It was the absence of stable leadership. They weren’t there sufficiently long to make anything happen.”This was particularly risky in Smokey Road, where the numbers were not in the school’s kindness.