When the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) began requiring states to identify schools for support and improvement plans, the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction (NDDPI) recognized a statewide challenge. As a variety of improvement efforts got underway at individual schools and districts, the department lacked an overarching plan and uniform framework to set statewide expectations and monitor if the work was resulting in real change. The NDDPI Office of Educational Improvement and Support reached out to the Region 11 Comprehensive Center (R11CC) to help solve this high-leverage problem of how to support and monitor continuous improvement in Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) and Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) schools and districts using evidence-based practices.