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After thorough data dialogue and analysis and careful choice of strategies to address clear target areas, the school improvement plan is ready to hit the ground. Implementation with fidelity seems to be the missing piece to the puzzle and is essential to maximizing the student gains that can result from careful adherence to a truly exemplary plan. Developing an Implementation Guide for each of the major strategies in your plan is essential to success, as well as paying detailed attention to teacher/leadership/system readiness.
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Time for Data Review!
Solving complex problems requires a team effort - the more eyes and brains we can put on the problem, the better our solution. Scheduled, periodic data reviews using a collaborative protocol enables connection between current student data and the specific strategies and activities that will drive instruction and intervention.
~ Woodrow Wilson: “We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow.”
Click HERE for a Data Review process adopted from Bruce Wellman and Laura Lipton's Data-Driven Dialogue: A Facilitator’s Guide.
Here's another Data Review process developed from the instructional rounds work of the Reading Now Network / High Impact Leadership Grant.
Other tools include a SMART goal template and a Tiered Instruction Document
Strategy Implementation Guides SAMPLES
These tools are so simple, and yet so powerful. Utilize these after your beginning of the year Data Review to unpack strategies tied to your continuous improvement plan, your current student benchmarking & demographic data, and each teacher's individualized learning plan.
GUIDANCE: Directions to create an implementation guide AND a blank template for creating your own implementation guides. Click HERE for the accompanying Strategy Implementation Monitoring Guide to measure fidelity and effectiveness.
Five different Strategy Implementation Guides developed across our region: Click HERE for these samples.
MATH: Sample Math MTSS Implementation Guide (accompanied with sample math SIP goal)
Sample Gradual Release for Math Implementation Guide and General Gradual Release Model
READING: 1) Close and Critical Reading, 2) Guided Reading, 3) Summarizing, 4) Guided Highlight and 4) Questioning Implementation Guides
GENERAL: 1) Learning Targets, 2) Formative Assessments, 3) Thinking Maps and 4) Bully Free Schools Implementation Guides
Many of these guides are created by Macomb ISD
Activity Implementation Guides SAMPLES
Again, here you'll find simple yet powerful tools to connect your classroom activities (what students will be doing) to the strategies (what the teachers will be doing.)
Utilize this first Matrix 1 as a tool to plan and identify specific classroom activities that support strategy implementation.
Utilize this second Matrix 2 as a planning tool to nicely coordinate the responsibilities of district administrators to building administrators to teachers to students.
GUIDANCE: Here's a blank template for teachers to create their own Activity Implementation Guides, supporting the strategies and collecting specific student data. Click HERE for the accompanying Activity Monitoring Guide to measure fidelity and effectiveness.
EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES
Before implementing any strategy, particularly the "major" strategies in your school improvement plan, it is imperative that your staff create an implementation guide. The Implementation Guide requirements are couched in the research on Effective Implementation Practices; this body of research identifies Fifteen Ways in which your building/district can prepare for implementation, providing guiding questions around such areas as "assessing readiness" or " creating shared vision and purpose" or "identifying shared vision and mission." These questions increase awareness of potential roadblocks to implementation with fidelity, and thus allow staff the opportunity to address identified hurdles before attempting to implement. Below are several Effective Implementation Practices resources that can be utilized in preparation for implementation.
Fifteen Ways to Increase Implementation Success
This PowerPoint walks users through all fifteen of the major areas of consideration when getting ready to implement, implementing, or progress monitoring a strategy. Guiding questions for each "way" are included, as well as images of sample captured conversations around each point.
Fifteen Big Ideas to Improve Initiatives
Invited presentation to CCSSO Spring seminar 2013; use this presentation as another way to think about the Fifteen Ways; categorizes them under three categories--Getting Ready, Making it Happen, Keeping it Going--which directly parallel the school improvement process.
Fifteen Ways Individual Templates
Use these templates to tackle individual "ways" as needed; they work well for small-group discussions, short segments of staff meetings, or line items on school improvement team meeting agendas.
Fifteen Ways and the Stages of the SI Process
Fifteen considerations is a lot when a building is just beginning to implement a new strategy; view this chart for an idea of where each of the "ways" might fit in the four stages of the school improvement process--and use it to narrow your focus.
GUIDANCE: Directions to create an implementation guide AND a blank template for creating your own implementation guides. Click HERE for the accompanying Strategy Implementation Monitoring Guide to measure fidelity and effectiveness.
Five different Strategy Implementation Guides developed across our region: Click HERE for these samples.
MATH: Sample Math MTSS Implementation Guide (accompanied with sample math SIP goal)
Sample Gradual Release for Math Implementation Guide and General Gradual Release Model
READING: 1) Close and Critical Reading, 2) Guided Reading, 3) Summarizing, 4) Guided Highlight and 4) Questioning Implementation Guides
GENERAL: 1) Learning Targets, 2) Formative Assessments, 3) Thinking Maps and 4) Bully Free Schools Implementation Guides
Many of these guides are created by Macomb ISD
Activity Implementation Guides SAMPLES
Again, here you'll find simple yet powerful tools to connect your classroom activities (what students will be doing) to the strategies (what the teachers will be doing.)
Utilize this first Matrix 1 as a tool to plan and identify specific classroom activities that support strategy implementation.
Utilize this second Matrix 2 as a planning tool to nicely coordinate the responsibilities of district administrators to building administrators to teachers to students.
GUIDANCE: Here's a blank template for teachers to create their own Activity Implementation Guides, supporting the strategies and collecting specific student data. Click HERE for the accompanying Activity Monitoring Guide to measure fidelity and effectiveness.
EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES
Before implementing any strategy, particularly the "major" strategies in your school improvement plan, it is imperative that your staff create an implementation guide. The Implementation Guide requirements are couched in the research on Effective Implementation Practices; this body of research identifies Fifteen Ways in which your building/district can prepare for implementation, providing guiding questions around such areas as "assessing readiness" or " creating shared vision and purpose" or "identifying shared vision and mission." These questions increase awareness of potential roadblocks to implementation with fidelity, and thus allow staff the opportunity to address identified hurdles before attempting to implement. Below are several Effective Implementation Practices resources that can be utilized in preparation for implementation.
Fifteen Ways to Increase Implementation Success
This PowerPoint walks users through all fifteen of the major areas of consideration when getting ready to implement, implementing, or progress monitoring a strategy. Guiding questions for each "way" are included, as well as images of sample captured conversations around each point.
Fifteen Big Ideas to Improve Initiatives
Invited presentation to CCSSO Spring seminar 2013; use this presentation as another way to think about the Fifteen Ways; categorizes them under three categories--Getting Ready, Making it Happen, Keeping it Going--which directly parallel the school improvement process.
Fifteen Ways Individual Templates
Use these templates to tackle individual "ways" as needed; they work well for small-group discussions, short segments of staff meetings, or line items on school improvement team meeting agendas.
Fifteen Ways and the Stages of the SI Process
Fifteen considerations is a lot when a building is just beginning to implement a new strategy; view this chart for an idea of where each of the "ways" might fit in the four stages of the school improvement process--and use it to narrow your focus.
