Partnering with Commonwealth schools and districts focused on continuous learning and improving student outcomes has had a profound impact on how the Rennie Center thinks about effective and sustainable change. This knowledge has guided the creation of Rennie's Change Management Framework, a rigorous, structured approach to planning and implementing district and school improvement strategies. The Framework outlines a set of steps that teams of educators can use to manage their own improvement processes. It is organized around two key ideas: (1) Defining the purpose and approach (the "what"); and (2) Determining the methods for achieving goals (the "how"). By bringing together the "what" and the "how," the Framework is intended to help teams design and maintain effective improvement strategies resulting in sustainable education reform. This executive summary outlines six principles behind the "what" and the "how." Additionally, it highlights three examples of local improvement efforts discussed in this year's "Condition of Education" report. These examples provide a window into improvement efforts happening across the Commonwealth. By examining the steps leaders and practitioners in each of these communities have taken to customize a change process, the Rennie Center hopes to pinpoint the conditions required to integrate effective improvement strategies into local change processes. [For the full report, see ED589553.]