Step 8: Scale Impact
Scaling impact requires thoughtful planning and intentional partnerships. Documenting successes, challenges, and lessons learned during improvement efforts creates a solid foundation for sustainability and scale-up.
Outcomes:
- The EPP has documented and communicated successes, challenges, and lessons learned to internal and external stakeholders.
- The EPP is collaborating with stakeholders (e.g., local districts, SEA) to scale program reform and continuous improvement efforts to other programs, universities, and geographic areas.
Steps
Step 8.1 Communicate Achievements
Step 8.2 Scale Efforts
Guiding Questions
- What stakeholders need to be part of a conversation about sustainability and scale-up?
- How will the EPP ensure that reform efforts are leading to deep and consequential changes in teacher preparation?
- How will the EPP ensure that changes to programs and preparation practices are sustained over a substantial period of time regardless of administration or faculty turnover?
- How will the EPP maximize the spread of scale-up efforts to other programs and universities?
- How will the EPP maintain the effectiveness of reforms while reducing the resources needed to sustain the reforms?
- What strategies will help those impacted by program reforms (e.g., faculty) assume ownership for their sustainability?
- How will the EPP ensure that the program reform framework is flexible and can be adapted to meet the changing needs of stakeholders in the future?
Resources
Active Implementation Frameworks:
- Communication Protocol Worksheet: Helps teams develop linked communication protocols between different groups of stakeholders to promote systems alignment and a transparent feedback process.
- Creating Meaningful Change in Education: A Cascading Logic Model: Outlines a strategy to help teams ask “how?” five times to focus attention on operationalizing the processes needed at each level of the education system to establish and sustain new practices in existing systems.
