Discover a pathway to improvement that is simple and field tested. Designed as a practical guide to school reform, this resource outlines a series of ten small-scale changes powerful enough to make a lasting impact in schools and districts. Within each chapter, you will find easy-to-implement strategies for strengthening culture, building relationships, and promoting student growth at every K-12 grade level. This book offers guidance on how to: (1) Understand how to redefine student success as efficacy and ownership of learning; (2) Gain research-based instructional strategies and teaching methods for creating student-centered mission statements that promote student success, self-reliance, and social-emotional learning (SEL); (3) Explore how to use performance-based assessments as a process for learning; (4) Examine the qualities of growth-based feedback to promote a future pathway for achievement; and (5) Obtain tools for developing dynamic reporting structures that communicate stories of learning and promote self-evaluation.