Improving Education Together offers a step-by-step guide to Labor-Management-Community (LMC) collaboration, an intervention that has successfully improved student outcomes in a wide variety of school districts across the country. The authors illustrate how a culture of collaboration between labor, management, and community stakeholders can be built using readily available tools for needs assessment, root-cause analysis, team norms, brainstorming, consensus-building, and long-term planning.   Improving Education Together offers detailed examples of how districts across the country—including Massachusetts, Maryland, and Illinois—have successfully implemented the LMC approach, along with resources and strategies employed and lessons learned from obstacles and setbacks encountered along the way.   Timely, useful, and accessible, this guide will appeal to a broad audience of school leaders, board members, and community leaders eager to learn more about how to collectively lead and manage school district change that is sustainable and results in improved teaching and learning.   "This book is well-written and organized, and achieves what it sets out to do: present state-of-the-art knowledge on LMC collaboration for successful school reform in an accessible, step-by-step format, complemented by a range of additional relevant tools and resources." — Carly Manion , Teachers College Record Improving Education Together offers a step-by-step guide to Labor-Management-Community collaboration, an intervention that has successfully improved student outcomes in a wide variety of school districts across the country. Timely, useful, and accessible, this book will appeal to a broad audience of school leaders, board members, and community leaders eager to learn more about how to collectively lead and manage school district change that is sustainable and results in improved teaching and learning.   “ Improving Education Together offers a thoughtful and actionable road map for creating the schools our children deserve and our society needs. The premise is as simple as it is challenging: collaboration among teachers and school and community leaders represents the solution for transforming education. The authors draw heavily on the latest research in education, organizational behavior, and management to develop a truly useful approach to change.” — Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School   “This valuable guide presents concepts, tools and exercises as well as practical steps for dealing with the many challenges that schools face in achieving better outcomes for students. The authors draw on extensive data from school districts that have implemented the collaborative process and document success stories when teachers, administrators, and community leaders work together.” — Robert B. McKersie, professor emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management   “Collaboration is complicated, serious work. Anyone interested in or initiating labor management collaboration should read this thoughtful orientation and guide.” — Peter McWalters, former superintendent, Rochester, New York, and retired commissioner of education, state of Rhode Island   Geoff Marietta is the executive director of Pine Mountain Settlement School and a research fellow at Berea College. Chad d’Entremont is the executive director of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy. Emily Murphy Kaur is the director of the Massachusetts Education Partnership at the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy.   Geoff Marietta is an educator, researcher, and entrepreneur who is passionate about helping people work together to improve the lives of children. He serves as the executive director of Pine Mountain Settlement School, a National Historical Landmark serving communities in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky. Marietta is also a research fellow at Berea College, and cofounder of Mountain Tech Media, a diversified media and technology company based in eastern Kentucky. He has written extensively on labor-management-community collaboration in education and is the author of dozens of cases, policy reports, and articles on the topic. After graduating from the University of Montana, Geoff was a teacher and administrator on Navajo Nation in New Mexico. He went on to earn his MBA from Harvard Business School and a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, founding a software technology company along the way. Geoff currently lives at Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County, Kentucky, with his wife, Sky, and their sons, Harlan and Perry. Chad d’Entremont is the executive director of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy. He is responsible for shepherding the organization’s mission to improve public education through deep knowledge and evidence of effective policy making and practice. In this capacity he has coauthored numerous articles, book chapters, and