This book will serves as a practical howto guide so secondary school students can begin to experience working in a professional learning community as they strive to improve the schools they are in right now. In doing this the book adheres to the idea that ampamplsquostudent leadership now is the best preparation for teacher leadership later.ampamprsquo It will help aspiring teachers move away from the many stale traditions in schooling as they reconceive of the profession in ways that will make it more personally satisfying while acknowledging that the work of teachers in the 21st century must necessarily be different from what we have now legacy practices of standardization left over from the industrial age.