In the first of a series of research briefs focused on the biggest implementation challenges facing American education today, EDI looks at what data from the field can tell us about education leaders’ capacity to anchor their work in clear student outcome goals. Eyes on the prize: The capacity of education leaders to use system-wide goals to drive student success looks back at five years of data from “capacity reviews” and discusses the challenges involved in setting meaningful system goals. We also hear from leaders about the impact that defining goals and “trajectories” can have in uniting a system around an effort to make change for students.