Adaptive implementation : navigating the school improvement landscape /

Adaptive Implementation focuses on how practitioners and researchers together continue to improve their craft by systematically collecting data on adaptations, testing them out, and figuring out what works.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yamaguchi, Ryoko, 1971- (Author)
Corporate Author: Rowman & Littlefield EBA
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Schools: A Combination of Technical and Adaptive Systems; What are Your Core Goals?; Are You Scaling Up? or Scaling Down?; Adaptive Implementation Team; Adaptive Implementation Cycle; Step 1: What Do We Need to See?; Step 2: What Resources Do We Have?; Step 3: What Will We Do?; Step 4: What Did We Do?; Step 5: What Did We Learn?; The Excel Model; Step 1 What Do We Need to See?; How Ambitious Should we Be?; Identify Waypoints; Create Your Road Map; Five Characteristics of Strong Waypoints
  • Project Excel ExampleWaypoints Focus on Things That are Important to You; Waypoints Focus on Things You Can Do; Waypoints Demand New Effort and Learning; Waypoints are Built on Evidence of Student Need; Waypoints are Built by the People Doing the Work; Step 2 What Resources Do We Have?; Assess What You Have; Assess What You Don't Have; Assess What You Could Have; Project Excel Example; Step 3 What Are We Going to Do?; Conduct Pro and Con Assessment; Create A Design and Action Plan; The Problem with Logic Models; Process for Developing the Design and Action Plan
  • Identify the Group of Activities Using the Pro and Con AssessmentDetermine the Relationships and Synergies of Activities; Map Out the Activities; Conduct a Series of Face Validity Meetings with Stakeholders; Revise, Revise, and Revise Again; Project Excel Example; Step 4 What Did We Do?; Annotate Your Road Map; What to Annotate and Document?; Annotating is Not Evaluating; Project Excel Example; Step 5 What Did We Learn?; Will We Do It Again?; When We Do It Again ...; Scaling Up; Scaling Down; Learning Through Reflection; Project Excel Example; Conclusion and Discussion; To Use or Not to Use?
  • Who's at the Table?A Note to Evaluators-And Funders; Making the Time; The Final Word: Momentum; Appendix Adaptive Implementation Tools: Templates for the Adaptive Implementation Process; Adaptive Implementation Process Template; Adaptive Implementation Summary Guide; Step 1: What do we Want to See? Five characteristics of Strong Waypoints Checklist; Step 1: What do we Want to See? Waypoint Assessment Tool; Step 2: What Resources do we Have? Adaptive implementation Resource Management Tool; Step 3: What Will we do? Pro and con Assessment Template
  • Step 3: What Will we do? Designand Action Plan TemplateStep 4: What Did we do? Data Review Sheet; Step 5: What Did we Learn? Discussion Protocol Tool; References; About the Authors