Toolkit for Rebuilding Student Supports into
a Comprehensive System for
Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching

Section D

Some considerations about systemic change

Tool for Assessing Readiness for Systemic Change Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/summit2002/assessingreadiness.pdf Systemic Change for School Improvement [Excerpts from a 2006 article by the Center co-directors published in the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation] Focuses on the problem of expanding school improvement planning to better address how schools and districts intend to accomplish designated changes. Specifically, some basic considerations related to systemic change are framed and outlined, along a set of proposed policy actions. Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/systemic/systemicchange.pdf Change Agent Mechanisms for School Improvement: Infrastructure not Individuals Provides some basic information about systemic change roles and functions related to promoting, facilitating, sustaining, and replicating innovations throughout a school district. The emphasis is on developing and staffing a set of change agent mechanisms that are interconnected to form an infrastructure for systemic change Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/systemic/change agents.pdf Sustaining and Scale-up: It's About Systemic Change Featured article in Center Newsletter/Journal Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/Newsletter/Fall04.pdf Guide to rethinking a school board's committee structure to focus on rebuilding supports for learning The document is meant to encourage school boards to take another critical step in improving schools, specifically by focusing on how the district and each school addresses barriers to learning and teaching. The discussion explores (a) why school boards need to increase their focus on addressing barriers to learning and teaching, (b) he benefits accrued from doing so, (c) ways to build an enhanced focus on addressing barriers into a school board's committee structure, (d) lessons learned from a major district where the board created a committee dedicated to improving how current resources are expended to address barriers to learning and teaching. Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/studentsupport/toolkit/aidh.pdf For much more on this matter, see the Center’s Online Clearinghouse Quick Find topic: Systemic Change and the Diffusion of Innovation in Schools (the Implementation Problem) https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/qf/systemicchange.html Powerpoints, Webinars, and Handouts Access: https://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/materials/trainingpresentation.htm#slide Back to main tool kit page

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