This guide, part of the Achieving the Dream initiative aimed at college reform in pursuit of student success, provides an overview of the initiative’s student-centered institutional improvement framework. The framework revolves around a five-step process: commit; use data; engage stakeholders; implement and evaluate; and establish a culture of continuous improvement. The guide also includes profiles of effective institutional transformations, as well as a readiness assessment schools can use to examine their current policies and practices in relation to the Achieving the Dream model.