sectionvideo/presentslidestotal time overview + useable intervention8:30 min stages7:19 min teams...

Section Video/Present Slides Total Time

Overview + Useable Intervention 8:30 min

Stages 7:19 min

TeamsPDSA

Terri present

Drivers 8:50 min

Lessons Learned + Resources 5 mins

Q & A with Terri 10 mins

Thank You

Naytahwaush Staff and Students

Cammy Lehr, Minnesota Department of Education

Mary Overlie, Northern Sky Center of Excellence

2014 National Forum on Dropout Prevention

for Native and Tribal Communities

April 27-30, 2014

Mystic Lake Casino Hotel

Prior Lake, Minnesota 

Naytahwaush Community Charter School: A Celebration School Actively Managing Change

Using Implementation Frameworks

• Welcome, Introductions & Q & A process• The Story of Naytahwaush• Translating Implementation Frameworks into Best

Practice– Selecting Usable Instructional Strategies and Interventions– Taking Time to do the Right Work at the Right Time (Stages)– Establishing an Effective Implementation Team – Continuously Improving Using Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycles– Building the Competence of Staff and the Organization

• Lessons Learned

education.state.mn.us

A New Way of Work

• Naytahwaush School moved from 2nd lowest performing school in MN to the middle to become a Celebration School.

• Increases in proficiency in both reading and math occurred over the past year due to active and intentional management of the school improvement process.  

• The Multiple Measurements Rating went from 4 percent to 56 percent in 2013.

• The percentage of Native American students at Naytahwaush who are considered proficient on Minnesota state accountability assessments increased by nearly 15 percent in one year.

The Story of Naytahwaush

Making It HappenEffective Change Requires Active Implementation

Letting it happen– The ‘What Will Be Will Be” Approach – Recipients are

accountable

Helping it happen– “Do It Yourself” Approach – Recipients remain accountable

Making it happen– Purposeful and proactive use of implementation

practice and science– Implementation Teams are accountable

Based on Hall & Hord (1987); Greenhalgh, Robert, MacFarlane, Bate, & Kyriakidou (2004); Fixsen, Blase, Duda, Naoom, & Van Dyke (2010)

Interventions

Active Implementation Frameworks

Stages Drivers

CyclesTeams

Operational Definitions

ClearDescription

PerformanceAssessment

EssentialFunctions

Usable InterventionsAn intervention needs to be teachable, learnable,

doable, and be readily assessed in practice

• Help schools and districts choose interventions wisely based on:– Needs of students– Best evidence– Fit and Resources Required– Readiness and resources for replication

• Help schools and districts operationalize the “WHAT”– Practice Profiles (example of a tool)

• Help schools and districts make space for the new work– Supportive policies and practices

Usable Interventions…

We tend to over-estimate how well defined “it” is!Usable interventions that are well-defined have positive implications for sustainability and scalability.

VIDEO: Implementing the Critical Features of a

Useable Intervention

http://youtu.be/5w-g5__OCA4

Implementation Stages and Critical Activities

Exploration InstallationInitial

ImplementationFull

Implementation

2-4 Years for School Based Implementation

• Assess needs• Assess Fit and

Feasibility• Identify

Structural and Functional Changes

• Promote “Buy-In”

• Structural Changes Made

• Define and Initiate Training

• Develop Coaching Plans

• Evaluate Readiness of Data Systems

• AdjustImplementation Drivers

• Manage Change• Deploy Data

Systems• Initiate

Improvement Cycles

• Maintain and Improve Skills

• Policies Regularly Changed to Support Work

• Data Systems In Use, Reliable and Efficient

VIDEO: Starting in Exploration

http://youtu.be/HYacMpOKcXg

• Teaming Structure– Accountable– Implementation Science informed– Lasting – Key to Sustainability– Linked – Key to Scalability

• Why?– Individual champions come and go– Structures host functions– Intentional use of data, improvement

cycles

Implementation Teams

HOW:• Teams engage in stage-

based work

• Teams install and support infrastructure to change and sustain practices

• Teams get started, get better and manage change on purpose

Implementation Teams

Changing on purpose to support the new way of work

Improvement Cycles – are continuous

Plan

DoStudy

Act

Usability TestingImprovement Cycles

Plan

DoStudy

Act Plan

DoStudy

Act Plan

DoStudy

Act

VIDEO: Moving from “groups” to Team

http://youtu.be/CPkGAFtqIVg

Coaching

Training

Selection

Systems Intervention

Facilitative Administration

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LeadershipLeadership

Performance Assessment (Fidelity)

Improved Education/Student Outcomes

Consistent Use of Educational Practices

© Fixsen & Blase, 2008

VIDEO: Driving the Changes &

Lessons Learnedhttp://youtu.be/LDTSWJDSiU8

o Using Implementation Best Practices is not a program or initiative – it is a way of work.

o We are addicted to ‘doing’ so it goes against the grain to “just do it.” It takes time.

o What is adopted must be used by adults with fidelity to ensure good outcomes for students.

o Working in teams is challenging – go alone to go fast. Work in teams to go far.

Implementation Lessons Learned

https://unc-fpg-cdi.adobeconnect.com/_a992899727/ai-lesson-quickstart/

Naytahwaush Community Charter School

www.naytahwaush.org

Terri Anderson, Director: terri@naytahwaush.org

Cammy Lehr: cammy.lehr@state.mn.usMary Overlie: moverlie@mnce.org

Free 24/7 Implementation Training for You and Your Team

SISEP’s newly launched “Active Implementation Hub” is a free, online learning environment for use by any stakeholder — practitioners, educators, coaches, trainers, purveyors — involved in active implementation and scaling up of programs and innovations. The site goal is to increase the knowledge and improve the performance of persons engaged in actively implementing any program or practice.”

http://implementation.fpg.unc.edu

The AI Hub is an initiative of the State Implementation & Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Center (SISEP) and The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) located at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s FPG Child Development Institute.