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Implementation Science: A Playbook for Instructional Leaders + Implementation Science: A Companion Workbook to Implementation Science

Playbook:
Implementation Science: A Playbook for Instructional Leaders offers a practical approach to driving sustainable, impactful change in educational settings. Grounded in research-to-practice methodology, this essential guide is designed for district and school instructional leaders committed to elevating student outcomes through strategic, evidence-informed decisions. Dr. Carlson draws on decades of experience in teaching, leadership, curriculum development, and literacy research to deliver a step-by-step framework that empowers leaders to effectively plan, implement, monitor, and assess initiatives.

In clear, accessible language, Implementation Science demystifies the core principles of implementation and bridges concepts to turnaround. It offers actionable strategies and tools for tackling complex challenges in today’s educational landscape. From curriculum selection to fostering an engaged, capable team, this playbook navigates the nuances of change management, helping leaders make data-driven decisions that stick. Each chapter culminates with key takeaways and questions for reflection, supporting instructional leaders in aligning their work with broader district goals.

Workbook:
Implementation Science: A Companion Workbook to Implementation Science is aligned to the three components of Implementation Science, Enabling Context, Effective Practices, and Effective Implementation, is a hands-on resource designed to help educators, instructional leaders, and district teams bring implementation science principles to life in real-world educational settings. The workbook provides structured tools, practical strategies, and real-world examples to bridge theory to practice, ensuring successful, sustainable, and equity-centered improvements in teaching and learning. Leaders will be able to plan, implement, monitor, and assess their chosen intervention. By the end of this workbook, leaders will have a complete strategic plan with all supports to finally reach their intended outcomes.

This bundled option empowers educators and leadership teams to create cohesive plans, collaborate effectively, and ensure their efforts lead to measurable improvements in student outcomes.

Perfect for courses in: Foundations of Implementation Science in Education; Instructional Leadership and School Improvement; Curriculum Design, Adoption, and Implementation; Data-Driven Decision Making for Educational Leaders; Systems Change and Continuous Improvement; Strategic Planning for K-12 Educational Initiatives; Evidence-Based Practices in Teaching and Learning; Educational Change Management and Policy Implementation; School Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness; Professional Development and Coaching for Educators.

The Instructional Leaders Companion Workbook to Implementation Science: A Playbook for Instructional Leaders

This companion workbook, aligned to the three components of Implementation Science, Enabling Context, Effective Practices, and Effective Implementation, is a hands-on resource designed to help educators, instructional leaders, and district teams bring implementation science principles to life in real-world educational settings. The workbook provides structured tools, practical strategies, and real-world examples to bridge theory to practice, ensuring successful, sustainable, and equity-centered improvements in teaching and learning. Leaders will be able to plan, implement, monitor, and assess their chosen intervention. By the end of this workbook, leaders will have a complete strategic plan with all supports to finally reach their intended outcomes.

• Enabling Context focuses on creating the conditions for effective and lasting change, providing protocols, planning tools, and team-building activities to build capacity and align resources across leadership, staff, and support teams.
• Effective Practices translates research-based instructional strategies into actionable steps for the classroom, supporting continuous improvement through cycles of planning, implementation, and refinement.
• Effective Implementation guides teams through the entire process of planning, executing, monitoring, and assessing new initiatives, offering practical frameworks and data-informed decision-making tools to drive meaningful change.

A 2022 SPE Outstanding Book Honorable Mention

Teaching Improvement Science in Educational Leadership: A Pedagogical Guide presents the reader with a range of pedagogies from a variety of viewpoints and approaches. The book provides a holistic picture for how one might develop stakeholder competency and capacity with improvement science as a signature problem-solving methodology for educational leaders. And while there are books that provide foundational knowledge on the field of improvement science (including the list of titles from Myers Education Press), this book differs in that it presents varying approaches for teaching others about improvement science. For those who want to develop the methodology but who need resources, the book provides the illustrations, examples, and other concrete applications so that those involved in teaching the subject matter can connect foundational knowledge of improvement to the applied context. This book serves as the guide for education leaders who wish to have the know-how for developing the knowledge, skills and dispositions relative to the field of improvement science—the education leader’s signature problem-solving methodology.

To learn more about Improvement Science and see our full list of books in this area, please click through to the Myers Education Press Improvement Science website.

Perfect for courses such as: Introduction to Improvement Science | Educational Research for Administrators | Introduction to Program Evaluation | Action Research for School

The Improvement Science Dissertation in Practice provides a narrative and illustration about the purpose and features comprising the Dissertation in Practice and how this culminating experience is well suited to using Improvement Science as a signature methodology for preparing professional practitioners. This methodology, when combined with the Dissertation in Practice experience in EdD programs, reinforces practitioner learning about and skills for leadership and change. As a guide, the book is an extremely valuable resource that supports faculty, students, and practitioners in the application of Improvement Science to pressing educational problems in a structured, disciplined way.

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To learn more about Improvement Science and see our full list of books in this area, please click through to the Myers Education Press Improvement Science website.

Perfect for courses such as: Educational Leadership, Research Methods, The Dissertation Process, Dissertation Writing and Research, and Thesis and Dissertation

The Educational Leader’s Guide to Improvement Science: Data, Design and Cases for Reflection is a collection illustrating applied organizational problem-solving using methods of improvement science in educational leadership. Early chapters introduce improvement science and then the reader is led through a logical sequence of inquiry, presented with cases of educational dilemma matched with principles of improvement science and provided examples of research methodology applied in context. Because improvement science research is so quickly becoming a signature pedagogy and core subject area of inquiry in the field of educational leadership, the literature is still scant in its coverage of improvement science models; it is the purpose of this publication to fill the void by providing concrete examples, through case studies, of instances where improvement research methods and analyses can be embedded to enhance and strengthen efforts at organizational improvement. This text concentrates on the elements faculty, students, and administrators need; specific models where improvement science frameworks enhance the reliability and validity of improvement or quality enhancement efforts.

To learn more about Improvement Science and see our full list of books in this area, please click through to the Myers Education Press Improvement Science website.

Perfect for courses such as: Introduction to Improvement Science, Seminar/Practicum in Educational Leadership, Introduction to Program Evaluation, Educational Research for Administrators, Action Research for School Practitioners, Educational Research, School Improvement, and Teacher Leadership.