ISLLC Standard #2 Implementation

Workshop Facilitator

Welcome

Name of Superintendent Welcome Why Important

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Overview & Introductions

Name of Facilitator Introductions Overview / Agenda Guiding Questions Targeted Objectives ISLLC Standards

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Proposed Norms & Expectations

Stay focused and fully engaged no competing conversations please

Participate to grow share openly and monitor your listening

Be a learner create your own meaning and application

Get your needs met ask questions that benefit the group personal questions on breaks

Housekeeping silence cell phones handle business later share ONE point …then next person

Leadership ModelA Systems Thinking Approach: ISLLC Standards and

improvement strategies are managed through Key Processes

Student Achievement Teacher Quality

Instructional Leadership

Implementing

Monitoring

Supporting

Communicating

Advocating

Planning

ISLLC Standards A principal may choose to implement specific strategies to meet

the ISLLC Standards and/or improve his/her performance relevant to the ISLLC Standards. The standards are:

1. Facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning

2. Advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth

3. Ensuring management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment

4. Collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources

5. Acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner

6. Understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context

Key Processes

An education leader advocates, nurtures, and sustains a school culture and instructional program conducive to school learning and staff professional growth.

ISLLC Standards Planning: Articulate shared direction and coherent policies, practices

and procedures for realizing high standards of student performance. Implementing: Engage people, ideas and resources to put into practice

the activities necessary to realize high standards for student performance.

Monitoring: Systematically collect and analyze data to make judgments that guide decisions and actions for continuous improvement.

Supporting: Create enabling conditions; secure and use the financial, political, technological, and human resources necessary to promote academic and social learning.

 

Sample Application Focus

ISSLC # 2 Implementing 1 Hour Application Focus

Application Focus

• Handout: ISSLC #2 Supporting Application Focus

• At the conclusion of this module you will identify key concepts and plan your application focus

• In the column labeled “Current Reality” – Rate yourself on a scale of 1-5

5 = Highly effective 3 = Satisfactorily Effective 1 = Ineffective

– Describe the evidence that supports your application of this concept

Guiding Questions

What strategies/actions/activities will ensure successful implementation of innovations designed to realize high standards for student performance?

What steps can be taken at our school to successfully implement our current innovations?

What is an Innovation?

The act or process of inventing or introducing something new

A new method/idea/product or technique of doing something

The missing Link

Research

Implementation

Student Learning

Adoption

Of innovation

Implementation appears to be most successful when:

1. Anticipated outcomes are identified and clearly articulated

2. Carefully selected practitioners receive coordinated training, coaching, and frequent performance assessments:

3. Organizations create and maintain infrastructure for timely on-going training skillful supervision combined with coaching regular monitoring with outcome evaluations

Tools For Schools

Read pp. 1-2 and list key factors in implementing an innovation.

Read p. 4 then chart the key factors under each of the SIX steps.

Configuration Map

An Innovation Configuration map clarifies

what a program or practice (the innovation)

is and is not. The IC creates a vision of what a new program or practice looks like in use, by clarifying your vision and spelling out what is ideal and what is not acceptable.

Implementation Standard

http://youtu.be/8rykC5GuWTY

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As you watch this conversation between two educators, focus on what they learned as they implemented an innovation system wide.

At the end of the video, you will be sharing your insights with a shoulder partner

Configuration Map

Let’s use the configure map provided on pp. 5 & 6 and go through the process together.

Identify a recent innovation at your site:

As a school team discuss:

1.How did you define implementation at your site?

2.What steps were taken to implement the innovation?

3.What are the results?

4.Use that innovation and apply it to the Innovation Configuration Map

Implementation:

“Successful implementation is synonymous with coordinated change of

system, organization, program, and practice levels …”

Fixsen, D. L., Naoom, S. F., Blasé, K. A., Friedman, R. M. & Wallace, F. (2005) Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature.

Research Into Practice:

The essence of implementation is behavior change

How can using a configuration map provide that missing link and help innovations be more successful?

Traditional Problems

1. Research to education practice gap Selection of an innovation may not be based

on clear criteria aligned with the need for improvement.

Choice of innovation may not be the most effective based on evidence

2. Implementation gap What is adopted is Not used with fidelity What is implemented is not supported or

monitored and disappears with time and turnover

Research Into Practice:

If the essence of implementation is

behavior change . . .

Then the systems supporting the new behavior must be

realigned

Stages of Implementation

1. Exploration and Adoption

2. Program and Installation

3. Initial Implementation

4. Full Operation

5. Innovation

6. Sustainability

Application Focus

Consider the guiding question, and think about connections between the ISSLC Standard and workshop’s key concepts

Use column labeled “Strategies/Ideas” List at least THREE things per box

Pair Share ONE strategy/idea you learned today and how you plan to use it at your school.

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Workshop Closure

Review the following… Targeted Objectives ISLLC Standard (Elements, Criteria, or

Targeted Behavior list on Application Focus) Next Steps

What additional data do you need? Who will you involve in process? What resources do you need?

Application Focus Do what? By when?

Workshop Closure

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