Shared commitment to learning for all is a common theme of successful schools. This requires intensive communication and collaboration among the staff and students. This is very important in order to create a successful school. Simply mandating effectiveness throughout the school does not work. Executives have to take the time to develop the shared culture of commitment to the success of the school. Teachers and students will only achieve so much through fear of what an executive will do. Executives have to build trust and respect that helps create the shared commitment among the staff and students to see that the school is as successful as