Commissioned by the College Board's National Task Force on Minority High Achievement, this report presents a history of the Emerging Scholars Program, a proven strategy for increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who achieve at high levels in freshman calculus (and in initial freshman courses in several of the sciences, including chemistry, physics, and biology), and discusses the lessons that have been learned over the years from efforts to disseminate the Emerging Scholars Program to a number of institutions.