You’ve set ambitious goals for your school or district, but now comes the harder question: how will you actually achieve them? It’s not for lack of effort. It’s because most improvement efforts skip the most important question in leadership: By what method?

This question sits at the center of the science of improvement. Goals don’t produce improvement. Targets don’t produce improvement. Hoping and trying harder don’t produce improvement. Only method produces improvement.

In this post, I’ll teach you a method that actually closes the gap between where your system is now and where you want it to be.

Learning to ImproveJohn DuesDecember 15, 2025Deming, Continual Improvement, continuous improvement, improvement kata, Mike Rother, school improvement, PDSA, education reform