Implementation Phase

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Iowa Support for
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Implementation Phase
Actions for Implementation

Date

Steps


1)  Assure Delivery of the Interventions/Strategies:

·         Meet regularly to monitor the delivery of actions and activities identified in the approved action plan.

·         Have a focused review process which encourages timely completion of scheduled activities and offers opportunities to revise components of the plan as needed.

·         Tools:  Action Plan, How Will You Monitor Your Implementation, Monitoring Key Activities, Monitor the Promotion of Action Plan


2)  Facilitate Ongoing Support to the Building/District Staff Members:

·         Provide adequate time for professional development.

·         Check for individual and organizational change.

·         Provide frequent opportunities for teachers to collaborate with peers.

·         Plan for assistance to both new and experienced staff.

·         Assure adequate resources.

·         Tools:  Collaborative Log for Monitoring Implementation of Data


3)  Monitor Teacher Implementation of Professional Development and Learnings:

·         Check on a regular basis for frequency and fidelity of implementation of professional development.

·         Modify or adjust delivery of professional development and/or actions of plan based upon analysis of implementation data.

·         Report progress on a regular basis.

·         Celebrate successes.

·         Tools:  How Will You Monitor Your Implementation?  Collaborative Log for Monitoring Implementation Data, Checklist for Monitoring Implementation, Checklist for Monitoring Implementation – AEA 12, Monitoring Implementation - Example


4)  Provide for Ongoing Formative Assessment of Student Performance:

·         Use formative data on a regular basis to assure increase in student performance.

·         Modify or adjust delivery of actions/activities of action plan based upon analysis of formative data.

·         Report progress on a regular basis.

·         Celebrate successes.

·         Tools: Looking at the Data – Answering the Questions


5)  Direct and Organize Data Collection Relative to Both Implementation and Impact on Student Performance:

·         Follow the evaluation plan within the action plan, including both formative and summative assessments that check implementation of professional development and impact on student learning.

·         Tools:  Analyzing and Reporting Our Data, Looking at the Data – Answering the Questions, Looking at Implementation Data – Example, Initial Study of Implementation Data, Monitoring Implementation - Advanced Study, Westlake Middle School Action Plan, Math Log and Example

Implementation: Implementation Logs

6)  Build the Capacity of the District/School for Ongoing School Improvement:

·         Share the plan with building staff, district office, board of education, students, parents, and community.

·         Provide regular updates of progress with action plan.

·         Tools: Guiding Principles for Iowa Support System, Monitor the Promotion of Action Plan, How Will You Monitor Your Implementation?

PowerPoints:

Tools and Resources:

Additional Articles (080108):

Additional PowerPoints (080108):

Additional Tools (080108):

Additional Resources:

  • The Art of Focused Conversations for Schools, Jo Nelson, © 2001.
  • Assessing Impact:  Evaluating Staff Development, Joellen Killion, © 2002.
  • Crucial Conversations – Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High; Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, © 2002.
  • Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement, Victoria L. Bernhardt, © 2004.
  • Fierce Conversations – Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time, Susan Scott, © 2004.
  • The Handbook for SMART School Teams, Anne Conzemius and Jan O’Neill, © 2002.
  • Instructional Practices Inventory (CD), Jerry Valentine, © 2005.
  • Making Schools Smarter - A System for Monitoring School and District Progress; Kenneth Leithwood, Robert Aitken, and Doris Jantzi, ISBN 0-7619-7504-5
  • The Three-Minute Classroom Walk-Through – Participant’s Manual;  Carolyn J. Downey, Betty E. Steffy, Fenwick W. English, Larry E. Frase, and William K. Poston, Jr.; © 2004. 
  • Training Manual for Assessing Impact:  Evaluating Staff Development; Joellen Killion with Linda Munger, Pat Roy, and Parker McMullen; © 2003.
  • Using Data to Improve Student Learning in Elementary Schools, Victoria L. Bernhardt, © 2003.
  • Using Data to Improve Student Learning in High Schools, Victoria L. Bernhardt, © 2005.
  • Using Data to Improve Student Learning in Middle Schools, Victoria L. Bernhardt, © 2004.

This page was revised November 14, 2008.