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.