Building to Impact: The 5D Implementation Playbook for Educators

About this book

Turn ideas into goalsand goals into impact The road to school improvement and student achievement is paved with good intentionsso why does the destination seem so far away? If youre 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 youll: 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 youll transform research and ideas into achievable actionsand make maximum impact.