The School Improvement Specialist Project prepared seven modules. School improvement specialists, as defined by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia, are change agents who work with schools to help them improve in the following areas so as to increase student achievement. These modules are intended to provide training materials for educators seeking professional development to prepare them for a new level of work. Each module has three sections: (1) Standards; (2) Improving Schools; and (3) Literature Review. This matrix measures the extent to which a school improvement specialist has the knowledge and skills to assist a school in developing and sustaining shared goals for learning as reflected by the following characteristics: (1) a community of learners with a shared vision, mission, and core beliefs; (2) a faculty that works in teams; (3) faculty and staff who effectively gather, organize, interpret, analyze, and apply data in the development, actualizing, and monitoring of shared goals; (4) stakeholder group representatives engaged in improvement planning; (5) school improvement plans; and (6) alignment between ongoing instruction and shared goals for learning contained in the school improvement plan. [This document was produced by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia, formerly the Appalachian Educational Laboratory (AEL, Inc.). For Module 4--Effective Teaching, see ED489148; for Module 6--Aligned and Balanced Curriculum, see ED489150.]