Duval County Florida superintendent John Fryer was not used to flying blind. A retired Air Force major general and former tactical fighter wing commander new to school district leadership, Fryer was used to having a control panel packed with information. In front of him in the cockpit, Fryer had a wide range of continually updated data from which he could adjust his flight path and inform his actions. "When you are a fighter pilot, you rely on that information to guide your decision making," he said. Not having any equivalent instruments in his position as superintendent, Fryer wondered, "How do I know what is happening in our school district?" (personal interview, January 11, 2000). Throughout their journey, Fryer and his leadership team have persistently searched for ways to build a dashboard of indicators that provide data on the influence of the district's strategic changes on the practices of the district's 7,300 teachers, the test performance of the district's 127,000 students, and the leadership of the district's 149 schools. The system is called the Standards Implementation Snapshot System. The system was conceived in the summer of 2002, and at the time of this report is completing its second year of use across the district. This is the story of the development and influence of the snapshot system. Appended are: (1) Sample Rubric and Evidence Form; (2) Visit Guidelines and Teacher Sampling Frame; and (3) Sample Snapshot Results. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)