Deliverology in Practice

How Education Leaders Are Improving Student Outcomes

“Kentucky has seen significant increases in high school graduation rates and college/career readiness rates for graduates over the last six years. Our success in Kentucky is directly linked to our ability to implement strategies and keep all educators focused on success for ALL children. The Education Delivery Institute and Deliverology provided the support and tools to enable our success.”

"Too often, the gap between policy ambition and implementation is wide.  The protocols and practices advanced by deliverology have been instrumental in narrowing this gap in Massachusetts.  As a result, state education policies are translating into practices that are benefiting students."

“In dealing with the challenges of getting more of our students to achieve their postsecondary goals, no program or approach is as comprehensive, focused or as well conceived as that offered by EDI. Deliverology works if you follow its processes and have people dedicated to its method of driving improvement.”

“EDI’s process of turning vision into action - and most importantly into results - has been just the catalyst we needed to meet our goal of delivering global-ready students.  Their straightforward method and process brings reality to big dreams.  No change agent should be without it.”

“Deliverology gives district leaders the tools they need to drive, and monitor, real change for students at the school and classroom level. This essential book for system leaders builds on the approach set out in Deliverology 101, and augment’s it with five years’ worth of real life stories and experiences from public school systems across the United States.”

“The best thing about the clear, practical methodologies the authors describe is that they really do help colleges and universities deliver on their goals for student success and completion.  They provide a means for tracking progress toward long-term objectives—and getting back on track if there is some wandering along the way!”

“EDI worked with my department to help us learn and apply a powerful set of ‘Deliverology’ tools for culture change in our state’s unique context. We now have a focused set of goals and priority strategies which inform everything we do to improve education in Hawai’i, and routines that build shared team accountability for results that move the needle on our strategic goals.  This has contributed significantly to the major improvements in student outcomes that we’ve seen in recent years.”

“As a large urban school district that serves approximately 17,000 students, we have found the process of delivery to be empowering.  It is the catalyst for action as we work to implement our district strategic plan, ensuring that we have the capacity to lever specific elements of the plan in a multi-year timeline.  The consistent focus on student results and positive changes at the classroom level allows us to maintain true to our vision of instructional excellence, for every student every day.”

“Never before have the stakes been higher for American higher education institutions.  EDI provides a concise approach that system and campus teams can use to set goals, measure progress, and achieve outcomes.  The tools they provide can help leaders make progress towards the goal, ground routine campus conversations around results, and ultimately achieve increased collaboration, streamlined processes, and improved student success.”

“’Poor implementation is like poison to a reform effort,’ Deliverology in Practice reminds us. But poor implementation is the norm in education. Deliverology in Practice goes beyond platitudes and ‘common sense’ to set out a clear, step-by-step framework for large-scale implementation. It’s a must-read for every policymaker seeking to spark improvement and every practitioner working to implement it.”