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Whether coming from a state legislature, state or local education agency, board of education, school leadership, or even driven by practitioners, the pressure to adopt and implement an evidence-based practice or program to improve school and student outcomes can jeopardize an initiative’s ability to achieve its intended outcomes. School leaders and practitioners can harness two fields of inquiry—implementation science and improvement science—to increase the likelihood of success when moving a new evidence-based intervention, program, or curriculum into practice. Implementation science is the scientific study of methods and strategies that support the uptake of evidence-based practices into regular use (Eccles and Mittman, 2006) . This field of inquiry can help explain why only some education improvement efforts succeed and why only some improvements are sustained over time (Fixsen et al. , 2013) . Thus, leveraging core tenets of both improvement science and implementation science can set state and local education agencies up for success when rolling out new initiatives to improve student outcomes.  \n“Focus on quality is not only about reducing poor quality but also about implementing evidence to improve quality.”(Koczwara et al. , 2018)  \n[www.sisep.fpg.unc.edu](www.sisep.fpg.unc.edu)  \nImprovement Science or Implementation Science?  \nImplementation science and improvement science have both been leveraged to increase students’ academic, behavioral, and socialemotional outcomes. Implementation science emphasizes integrating implementation supports (e.g. , training, coaching, teams, leadership) to move evidence-based practices into routine use. Furthermore, implementation science often starts with exploration activities, including identifying the need for a new practice or structures to support existing programs and creating readiness and buy-in. On the other hand, improvement science typically begins with a specific problem of practice that requires addressing. Improvement science—a methodology that focuses on improving practice —efforts are undertaken by a data-driven approach that aims to improve general practice, using cycles of inquiry systematically (e.g. , plando-study-act [PDSA] cycles) . Commonalities and differences exist between implementation and  \nimprovement sciences. Both sciences (a) rely heavily on data to assess their respective outcomes of interest,(b) focus on improving systems,(c) simultaneously address policy and practice,(d) use improvement cycles, and (e) attend to practitioner-level needs. Differences between improvement science and implementation science, however, should be highlighted. Primarily, improvement science is problem-specific and user-focused, while implementation science is context and practice concentrated. 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