Just Talk to Us Normally: A Leader's Guide to Organizing Schools That Elevate Students

Author/Contributor(s):	Hegseth, Whitney M
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	09/23/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Just talk to us normally assists educational leaders in critically examining their instructional supports, reflecting on how to use these supports to elevate students. This leadership guide is informed by Hegseth's extensive ethnographic and comparative research in elementary schools that span different educational systems and national contexts. Focusing on the International Baccalaureate and Montessori educational systems, in particular, Hegseth demonstrates how educational leaders can change culture. Specifically, Hegseth argues that educational leaders can use educational infrastructure, both direct and indirect supports to teaching and learning, to improve the way we see and teach young people.