Articles - Teacher Leadership An Empirical Investigation of Leadership and Organizational Issues Associated with Sustaining a Successful School Renewal Initiative1 Nancy R. Romance, Florida Atlantic University Michael R. Vitale, East Carolina University Megan Dolan, Florida Atlantic University Lee Kalvaitis, Florida Atlantic University Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April, 2002, New Orleans, LA (Funded in part through NSF: REC 00414734) Improving School Reform by Changing Curriculum Policy toward Content-area Instruction in Elementary Schools: a Research-based Model1, 2 Michael R. Vitale, East Carolina University Nancy R. Romance, Florida Atlantic University Michael Klentschy, El Centro (CA) Elementary School District 1 Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 2006, San Francisco, CA 2 Preparation of this paper was supported by IES Project R305G04089 and NSF/IERI Project REC 022835.