Advance equity by learning to crack the system's codes. We must act now, using what we already know, to advance equity and raise the achievement of every student. With three decades of leading equity work across the country, the authors issue a call to action for educational leaders who are willing to fight the fight for equity for all students. School and district leaders will encounter roadblocks as they enact systemic change, but this volume introduces practical, realistic, and strategic approaches for navigating those barriers. It equips education leaders with the moves they can make today to achieve the vision that every student becomes a high achiever by providing real school and district examples of systemic equity efforts; demonstrating the parallel work that school and district teams must do to achieve and sustain systemic change; and cracking the codes in the domains of politics, diplomacy, and warfare to achieve the equity agenda. The book is a must read for leaders at all levels of the system who have chosen to be in this fight and are ready to do what it takes to make the system work for all students.