Like many state education agencies, the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) recognized it needed more structure to parts of its school improvement approach. NDE leaders wanted to consider the work through an equity-focused lens, ensuring supports were effective for multilingual students, and create a process that would be replicable, scalable, and sustainable across the state. No small order. This "order" became the focus of the NDE's work with the Region 11 Comprehensive Center (R11CC). Together they set a goal of creating a school improvement process that identifies barriers to student learning and helps students and their teachers overcome those challenges with evidence-based solutions. To create this new approach, the NDE and the R11CC established partnerships with agencies located throughout the state and across the educational ecosystem. The NDE and the R11CC shared the role of facilitator, guiding the partnership and keeping the focus on collaboration.