From the report: "State education leaders play a critical role in modernizing the education system to meet the needs of all learners. In April 2023, at a moment of historic opportunity to improve how schools serve students, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) hosted a national summit, Imagining More: A Summit on Modernizing Our Education System, to elevate the urgency and momentum to move from pockets of change to systemic transformation. From this all-day convening emerged four concrete actions that state leaders can take to move toward systemic transformation that better centers students at the heart of the system:

• Articulate a clear student-centered learning vision and theory of change to achieve it.

• Set the conditions for redefining schools.

• Cultivate state and district capacity to support locally driven change.

• Accelerate and support scaling of new models of education."