This document discusses transforming school culture through distributed leadership and continuous improvement. It advocates for a focus on the instructional core of content, instruction, and student learning, with alignment and assessment supported by professional learning communities. The transformation involves changing central office roles to provide learning-focused partnerships between principals and the central office to deepen instructional leadership. This model of distributed leadership requires high demand and high support across the school system to drive sustained growth and high performance. Managing complex change also requires having a clear vision, developing skills, providing incentives and resources, and creating an action plan.