The accompanying facilitator's guide is a critical resource for State teams to use to do an initial self-assessment using the rubric and to improve their strategy or approach. The guide offers States flexibility in designing a workshop, providing instructions for either a comprehensive two-day workshop or individual sessions to address specific topics covered by the rubric. [For the companion report, "Communications and Engagement Assessment Rubric: A Tool to Help State Education Agencies Assess Their Current Efforts to Communicate with and Engage Stakeholders and Consider Options for Improvements", see ED611390.]