Building to Impact: The 5D Implementation Playbook for Educators

by Arran Hamilton, Douglas B. Reeves, Janet May Clinton

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’ 

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.

232 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 7, 2022

Reviews

[Spacek Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

The authors explain a systematic approach to school improvement. We must think past the human expectation of societal needs to have students learn and be proficient in identified concepts throughout school into graduation. Decisions need to be made recognizing how expectations impact student learning and how teachers and the system approach how students learn. The systematic method described in this book organizes an approach that will have impact!

[Boodle U. · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a middle school educator, this was a great read and almost a guide to action research within the classroom. There is a lot of information for scaling across schools and districts; however, it was impactful to how I am approaching what I am doing this next year in the classroom. Time is needed to digest all the information. I suggest completing one section and reflecting them coming back.

[Dave Moyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very useful guide to establishing a process to identify need and implement and monitor change. Many schools struggle in this area and could benefit from utilizing this process and considering these concepts on the front end of change.

[Dory Ford · Rating 3 out of 5]

Did this for school so no strong thoughts, seemed good though.

[Robbie Burns · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Hattie and his edu-squad. This is great.

My one issue is sometimes how complicated his models are.

This can be a barrier to using his work effectively in the already pretty messy and turbulent rhythms of school life.