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<p>Turn ideas into goals—and goals into impact</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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: </p> <ul> <li>Discover goals worth pursuing and problems worth addressing</li> <li>Design instruments and actions that generate deep impact</li> <li>Deliver interventions and collect data</li> <li>Double-back to monitor your progress and evaluate the impact</li> <li>Double-up to enhance, sustain, and scale your success</li> </ul> <p>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.</p>