Scaling & Sharing

Watch the webinar to learn more about this phase. 

• What is it? A “pre-mortem” assessment of your scaling ideas and a list of action steps for avoiding pitfalls and maximizing success. 

• What does it do? Helps team members plan for and mitigate possible issues with scaling efforts. 

• Why use it? To predict the factors that could lead to both a successful and failed scaling effort; to help visualize action steps to guide work in the future months. 

• When should we use it? When you have a change idea that has been successfully developed through testing and shows clear promise OR when you are planning to take that change idea from its early testing ground and expand it across your community.

• What is it? A tool that provides steps, advice, and guiding questions to support you in preparing to tell the story of your improvement team’s work.

• What does it do? Provides guidance on turning the success and insights from your work into a document or a narrative that can be shared, spread, and used to sustain your success. 

• Why use it? To tell the story of your team’s improvement work to a broader audience.

• What is it? A tool that lays out common challenges along with a menu of possible action steps to meet those challenges. 

• What does it do? Helps develop a plan to move the work forward when:

  • you’ve hit a plateau;

  • you want to renew team members’ engagement;

  • you’ve learned new information or developed new questions about the work.

• Why use it? To overcome challenges and move the work forward in a collaborative way.

• What is it? A facilitation guide for hosting an effective intervisitation.

• What does it do? Provides detailed guidance on how to structure a day of learning through intervisitation, including flow of the day, protocols, guiding and reflection questions, and feedback survey. Can and should be adapted by the user to fit your needs

• Why use it? This resource helps lessen the burden of planning an intervisitation with other schools. Intervisitations are a powerful way to accelerate and celebrate effective practices and learning for educators. Use this facilitation guide as is or as a base to adapt to your needs and goals.

• What is it? The Learning Exchange Protocol & Guide is used to support planning the Learning Exchange time in collaboration with visiting school team members.                                                   

• What does it do? Provides intentional guidance on the purpose of the learning exchange, an overview of the day, and considerations for planning. Includes questions so all participants are actively engaged in all phases of the exchange including; planning, classroom visits, reflection, providing feedback to host schools, embarking on next steps.                                                                                                   

• Why use it? This resource helps lessen the burden of planning an intervisitation with other schools and is designed to ensure that all participants get the most out of the learning exchange.