Teachers, who too often are left to work in isolation and lack instructional support or clear expectations, are struggling to help students rebound academically and personally post-pandemic. Policy Analysis for California Education’s (PACE) December report What Does It Take to Accelerate the Learning of Every Child?: Early Insights from a CCEE School-Improvement Pilot outlines findings from the first year of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence’s (CCEE) Intensive Assistance Model (IAM). The three-year pilot school-improvement project, designed to build new approaches for teacher collaboration and student support, launched in 2022–23 in eight schools across five districts — the majority of which are receiving direct technical assistance from CCEE.