When Noline Martin became assistant principal at Thurgood Marshall Elementary, a pre-K-6 school in Richardson, Texas, in 2017, the school was working its way up from being declared a failing campus two years earlier. It had recently improved to a "met standard" rating, but Martin knew the school could do more to help its students. Her experience with the Learning Forward Academy led her to revamp the school's approach to literacy, and now the school's rank has risen to a B, according to the newer letter-based ranking system that began in 2019. The Learning Forward Academy is Learning Forward's flagship deep learning experience, committed to increasing educator and leader capacity and improving results for students in the ever-changing landscape of education. This article discusses Noline Martin's experiences with the Learning Forward Academy.