This is how you improve.
我们是这样进步的 - We improve like this.
This is how we build a building.
我们是这样修房子的 - We build a building like this.
This is how you can get home.
我们是这样回家的 - We go home like this.
In Chinese, we don't usually use it, that, this at the beginning of the sentence while at the same hide the suject in the clause behind. If there is a subject, and I want to say something about it without a literary concern (if you are not a grandmaster of Chinese and is writing a literature work), simply state it first at the beginning of the sentence. In Chinese, it would be incredibly rare to find that the suject is hidden in a clause.
A more colloquial answer was provided by Sue under Jeff's answer (Jeff's answer actually is wrong).