Shared Success Isn’t Just Possible. It’s Practical.

The Institute for Performance Improvement (TIFPI) is proud to announce the upcoming release of a groundbreaking new resource for school leaders and facilitators: Facilitating Shared Success: The Practical Guide to Leading Collaborative School Improvement by Deb Page, available August 2025 from Solution Tree.

Across the country, K–12 schools face mounting pressure to address urgent challenges—from improving attendance and literacy to rethinking student behavior and expanding career pathways. These are not problems that any single teacher, school, or initiative can solve alone. They require coordinated, collaborative problem-solving that engages educators, families, and community partners in meaningful and measurable change.

That’s where Facilitating Shared Success comes in.

This timely, practical guide is built on the ten Certified School Improvement Specialist Standards and draws on over two decades of field-proven practices in performance improvement across education, business, nonprofit, and government sectors. It offers a cost-effective roadmap for collaborative school improvement – one rooted in people and processes, not just programs. Whether tackling chronic absenteeism or launching new career-connected learning initiatives, this resource helps leaders align their teams, clarify goals, and drive progress with clarity and purpose.

Why This Book, Why Now?

Leaders across the education landscape are contending with a perfect storm of forces—economic pressures, social shifts, political tensions, changing demographics, and disruptive technologies. Meanwhile, funding for school improvement and leadership development is being cut or stretched thinner, especially at the federal level.

Yet expectations remain sky-high. Schools are still asked to close achievement gaps, personalize learning, foster well-being, and prepare students for an increasingly complex world.

In this climate, school leaders need more than theory or inspiration. They need practical tools and methods that can be applied immediately, affordably, and collaboratively.

That’s exactly what Facilitating Shared Success delivers.

This book includes:

• Ready-to-use tools and templates for engaging stakeholders and facilitating collaborative planning.
• Clear protocols for diagnosing factors impacting student and educator success and the root causes and aligning improvement strategies.
• Real examples of how to use performance data to drive reflection, learning, and action.
• Tools to build capacity and ownership, transfer responsibility, and sustain results—even as roles and teams change.

It’s not just a book. It’s a full toolkit designed for busy leaders who want to move from intention to impact.

A Proven Track Record of Building Capacity

The release of Facilitating Shared Success is a natural extension of TIFPI’s long-standing mission: to equip leaders and facilitators with the tools, skills, and standards they need to guide real improvement. For over a decade, TIFPI has certified and supported performance improvement professionals in education, economic development, workforce systems, and more—empowering them to lead cross-sector collaboration that addresses complex challenges and delivers measurable results.

TIFPI’s training programs, certification standards, and facilitation frameworks have been used by organizations across the country to strengthen internal capacity, build resilient teams, and implement change initiatives with clarity, consistency, and confidence. This newest resource brings that same rigor and practicality to the education sector at a time when schools and districts need it most.

A Smart Investment in Local Capacity

As education agencies seek high-impact solutions with tight budgets, Facilitating Shared Success offers a strong return on investment:

• One-time cost, long-term use. The tools in this book can be used year after year, across schools and departments. It doesn’t require an ongoing license, facilitator, or outside consultant.
• Build internal expertise. Rather than outsourcing improvement work, districts can use this guide to develop internal facilitators and school-based teams who know how to lead collaborative processes aligned to real outcomes.
• Scalable impact. Whether you’re supporting one school or a districtwide transformation effort, the book scales to fit your context. It aligns directly to the Certified School Improvement Specialist Standards used nationally to prepare and assess facilitators of improvement.
• Avoid costly missteps. Too many well-intended initiatives fail because they lack clarity, collaboration, or follow-through. This book reveals the pitfalls and the good intentions that can be barriers to shared success.  It helps teams focus, design for sustainability, and evaluate what’s working—avoiding wasted effort and initiative fatigue.

Get Trained, Get Certified: A New Path for Coaches, Facilitators, and Leaders

To deepen the impact of the book, The Institute for Performance Improvement will soon launch a new live, virtual training and certification program for district, regional, and agency-based professionals who support school leaders in collaborative improvement. This program includes:

• Live instruction in how to facilitate leaders, teams, and stakeholders to use the book for shared success.
• Additional proven tools and processes to support their facilitation and development efforts.
• Coaching and feedback on real-world, job-embedded assignments.
• Certification that verifies and recognizes their ability to facilitate adoption and implementation of collaborative improvement and innovation efforts with proven, measurable results.

This program is ideal for:

• District school improvement leaders
• Regional service agency specialists
• Principal supervisors and instructional leaders
• Leadership development coaches
• Educational consultants

Participants leave with not just knowledge – but real, job-ready skills and a professional certification.

Deb Page: Advancing Performance in All Sectors

Facilitating Shared Success is the second book released by Deb Page in 2025, underscoring her continued commitment to advancing performance improvement across diverse sectors. Her earlier publication, The Performance Improvement Facilitator Playbook: Guiding Collaboration – Driving Results, released in April, offers a comprehensive framework for facilitating sector partnerships and coalitions in business, government, and nonprofit settings. Together, these two works form a powerful, complementary set of tools for those leading complex, high-stakes change efforts.

Get Your Copy and Join the Movement

Pre-order your copy of Facilitating Shared Success from Solution Tree today – and equip yourself and your team with the tools, frameworks, and confidence to lead collaborative improvement that works.

Want to go further? Contact us at https://tifpiedu.org/contact/ to learn how you can join our next training and certification cohort—and be part of a growing network of professionals committed to shared success.