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A collaborative process to putting your plan into effect at both the system and instructional levels
A collaborative process to putting your plan into effect at both the system and instructional levels
“It’s important to have a sound idea, but it’s only good if it is soundly implemented.” (Author Unknown)
“One of the greatest mistakes is to judge by intentions rather than results.”
(Milton Friedman)
Implementing, monitoring, adjusting and evaluating the Plan is what gives it life, enabling a district to achieve its goals, realize its vision, and accomplish its mission; therefore, it is critical that there is a high level of collaboration between the district and its schools on all these processes. While it is primarily the role of the school to implement continuous learning cycles at the instructional level, it is primarily the role of the district to support that instruction at the systems level. It is essential that implementation and impact data be collected at both the district and school levels – both instructional and systems - and that data be brought back to the entire continuous improvement team for collective analysis, possible adjustment of implementation/plan, and finally for evaluation. It is also important that the team regularly step back and reflect on not only the success of the plan but of the entire continuous improvement process.
Assuming the plan has been created with the stages of implementation in mind, there are a number of considerations that must be taken into account when implementing, monitoring, and adjusting.
Implementation is an iterative process. Even though the MICIP cycle appears to be somewhat linear – moving from assess needs to plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate – a key element of the MICIP mindset is that the overall process is comprised of many smaller versions of this same cycle, including multiple cycles of implement, monitor, and adjust.