Bestseller!

Building to Impact
The 5D Implementation Playbook for Educators

First Edition

Arran Hamilton - Group Director, Education, Cognition
Douglas B. Reeves - Creative Leadership Solutions
Janet M. Clinton - University of Melbourne, Australia
John Hattie - The University of Melbourne, Australia

Foreword by Dylan Wiliam

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Administration & Leadership | Data-Driven Decision Making | Visible Learning

May 2022 | 232 pages | Corwin

Turn ideas into goals—and goals into impact

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.

Available Formats

ISBN: 9781071880753	Paperback	Suggested Retail Price: $40.95	Bookstore Price: $32.76
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About the Authors

List of Figures

Glossary

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

D1 Discover

D2 Design

D3 Deliver

D4 Double-Back

D5 Double-Up

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Mapping 50 Implementation Methodologies

Appendix 2: Key Areas of Divergence Across 50 Implementation Models

Appendix 3: 23 (Relatively) Common Implementation Activities

Appendix 4: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis of Implementation

Free resources

Bridging the Implementation Gap: From Inklings to Ideas to (Godzilla-like) Impact

In this blog, author Arran Hamilton describes the problem of the "implementation gap" and how the 5D Methodology can be used to bridge it.

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Webinar: Closing the Implementation Gap

Watch this free Education Week webinar to explore how to bypass the implementation gap in your school or district by implementing the evidence-based and field-tested Building to Impact 5D methodology found in the all-new book, Building to Impact, by Arran Hamilton, Douglas Reeves, Janet Clinton, and John Hattie. Following the Five D’s, you’ll learn how to turn the good ideas of your leadership teams, PLCs, and educators into real systematic impact.

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Building to Impact Preface

In the preface to Building to Impact, the authors discuss the need for a clear methodology focused on implementation and creating lasting and sustainable change in schools.

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