Jody Leleck has been appointed the principal of Broad Acres Middle School in Montgomery County, Maryland. The school is underperforming all other schools in the district, and she has been asked to improve the performance.

Explores the results of Jody Leleck's efforts to turn around underperforming Broad Acres Middle School.

In the four years since Principal Ray Myrtle took over Highland Elementary School, the school moved from the brink of state takeover to performance levels in the top ten percent of all schools in Maryland. The case describes the concrete steps Myrtle and the teaching staff took to affect the dramatic change in student learning.