Pasco County Schools in Florida has been participating for two years in Learning Forward’s Leadership Team Institute, an innovative, in-depth opportunity for school and system leaders to engage in vertical leadership teams and learn strategies and practices for implementing evidence-based policies and practices that increase student success. Pasco County recently shared their early wins with all teams participating in the Leadership Team Institute 2024-25 cohort. The district’s team had identified as a problem of practice the need to enhance student engagement in order to improve academic, behavioral, and attendance outcomes. Over the two years of their work together with Learning Forward coaches, the district has seen across-the-board increases in 6th-8th grade student English language arts and science scores and increased math scores for 6th and