Turn ideas into goals--and goals into impact

The road to school improvement and student achievement is paved with good intentions--so why does the destination seem so far away? If you're like most educators, the answer is a pothole known as the implementation gap.

This book provides a road map to bypassing that gap in your school or district, offering a carefully researched, field-tested methodology that takes leadership teams, professional learning communities, and educators all the way from good ideas to systematic impact. Following the five Ds, you'll: 

• Discover goals worth pursuing and problems worth addressing
• Design instruments and actions that generate deep impact
• Deliver interventions and collect data
• Double-back to monitor your progress and evaluate the impact
• Double-up to enhance, sustain, and scale your success

You became an educator to make a difference in students' lives. With this playbook, you'll transform research and ideas into achievable actions--and make maximum impact.