How Schools Improve: A Conceptual Framework, by R. Page Tompkins, EdD, and T. Elijah Hawkes, MSEd. This framework outlines five essential supports for improving instruction in schools: leadership, professional capacity, student-centered learning climate, coherent instructional guidance systems, and strong family-community-school partnerships. It emphasizes the instructional triangle as the technical core of schooling and discusses how contextual factors like relational trust and community contexts influence these supports. The brief also considers alternative theories of school improvement and critiques them, ultimately advocating for equity-centered, deeper learning as the hallmark of a good school. Finally, it addresses the broader implications of improvement efforts and examines counter-narratives in the literature.