TOPIC: Systemic Change, and the Diffusion of Innovation in Schools (the Implementation Problem)

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Center Developed Online Documents, Resources, and Tools

Books/Monographs/Briefs/Guides
• Implementation Science and School Improvement
• Student/Learning Supports: A Brief Guide for Moving in New Directions
• Improving School Improvement
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Embedding Mental Health as Schools Change
• Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System.  


Center Report
• Implementation Science and Complex School Changes
• How School Boards Can Pursue New Directions to Help Schools Address Barriers to Learning and Teaching
• Improving Student/Learning Supports Requires Reworking the Operational Infrastructure
• We won't Argue Against Adding More Counselors,
  BUT ...
  Addressing Student Mental Health Concerns Involves Much More than Increasing the Number of Mental Health Providers
• Bringing New Prototypes into Practice: Dissemination, Implementation, and Facilitating Transformation

Information Resource
• Diffusion of Innovations and Science-Based Practices to Address Barriers to Learning & Improve Schools: A Series of Information Resources on Enabling System Change
  • Brief Overview of Major Concepts from E.M. Rogers' Work on Diffusion of Innovations
  • Brief Overview of Malcolm Gladwell’s Concept of the Tipping Point
  • Dissemination Focused on Diffusion: Some Guidelines
  • Some Recent Work Related to Systemic Change Involving Innovation in Complex Organizations
  • Brief Overview of a Major Review by L. W. Green, et al (2009) entitled: Diffusion Theory and Knowledge Dissemination, Utilization, and Integration in Public Health
  • Change Agent Mechanisms for School Improvement: Infrastructure not Individuals
  • Diffusion: In Pursuit of Action
  • Excerpts from Child Trends’ series of "Research-to Results Briefs on Adopting, Implementing, Sustaining, and Replicating Evidence-Based Practices"
  • Excerpts from Robert C. Granger’s "The Big Why? A Learning Agenda for the Scale Up Movement"
  • Excerpts from document by Sarah Stachowiak "Pathways for Change: 10 Theories to Inform Advocacy and Policy Change Efforts"
  • Intro to Multi-Level Community Based Culturally Situated Interventions
  • Making and Disseminating Recommendations is Not Sufficient
  • Policy Implications for Advancing Systemic Change for School Improvement
  • Some Key References Related to Enabling System Change
  • Some Key Terms Related to Enabling System Change
  • Systemic Change and Empirically-Supported Practices: The Implementation Problem
  • Systemic Change for School Improvement
  
  
• Guide for Planning Coaching for SEAs/LEAs to Establish a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports


• Enhancing Readiness, Commitment, and Engagement for Transforming Learning Supports: An Ongoing Process
• Examples of MTSS in Practice

Center Policy & Program Analysis Briefs and Notes
• Improving How Schools Address Barriers to Learning & Teaching: Escaping Old Ideas and Moving Beyond Current Trends
• Bringing New Prototypes into Practice: Dissemination, Implementation, and Facilitating Transformation
• Implementation Science and Innovative Transformation of Schools and Communities
• New Initiatives: Considerations Related to Planning, Implementing, Sustaining, and Going-to-Scale
• Organization Facilitators: A Key Change Agent for Systemic School and Community Changes
• Resource Oriented Teams: Key Infrastructure Mechanisms for Enhancing Education Supports
• Restructuring Boards of Education to Enhance Schools' Effectiveness in Addressing Barriers to Student Learning

Continuing Education Modules
• Leadership Training: Moving in New Directions for Student Support

Books and Chapters
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: In the Classroom and Schoolwide
• Improving School Improvement
• Making It Happen -- Part III of the book "Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System"

Guides to Practice & Guidance Notes
• Guide for Planning Coaching for SEAs/LEAs to Establish a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Prototype Strategic Plan for Guiding SEAs and LEAs in Developing a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports
• Getting from Here to There: A Guide Book for the Enabling Component (Guidebook)
• New Directions in Enhancing Educational Results: Policymakers' Guide to Restructuring Student Support Resources to Address Barriers to Learning
• Social Marketing as a Spiraling Facet of Program and Systemic Change
• Developing a Unified and Comprehensive System of Learning Supports: First Steps for Superintendents Who Want to Get Started
• Establishing a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports at a School: Seven Steps for Principals and Their Staff
• Turning a Project or Pilot into a Catalyst for Systemic Change and Sustainability
• About Demonstration Sites
• Sustaining School-Community Partnerships to Enhance Outcomes for Children and Youth: A Guidebook and Tool Kit

EJOURNAL/Newsletter
• Transforming Student/Learning Supports: What We’ve Learned so Far
• Sustainability and Scale-up: It's about Systemic Change

Policy Notes
• Common Core State Standards and Learning Supports
• Leadership Changes: Minimizing the Downside

Aid in Toolkit
• Website Prototype for SEA, LEA, and School Learning Supports System

Guidance Notes
• Moving toward a Comprehensive System of Learning Supports: Mapping & Analyzing Learning Supports
• Analyzing What is Being Spent in Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching

Resource Aid Packet
• Framework for Systemic Transformation of Student and Learning Supports

Technical Aid Packets
• Resource Mapping and Management to Address Barriers to Learning: An Intervention for Systemic Change

Center-Related Journal Publications
• Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches To Address Barriers to Student Learning
• The Implementation Guide to Student Learning Supports in the Classroom and Schoolwide: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Mental Health in Schools and System Restructuring
• On Sustainability of Project Innovations as Systemic Change
• Scaling-Up Reforms across a School District
• School Improvement: A Systemic View of What's Missing and What to Do About It
• A School Leader's Guide to Student Learning Supports: New Directions for Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Systemic Change and School Improvement.
• System Reform to Address Barriers to Learning: Beyond School-Linked Services and Full Service Schools.
• Toward a Scale-Up Model for Replicating New Approaches to Schooling

• Meaningful Local Engagement Under ESSA: A Handbook for LEA and School Leaders (July, 2017)
• Changing the Narrative on Public Education: A Communications Toolkit
• Coalition Sustainability: Long-Term Successes & Lessons Learned
• Creating the Capacity for Change
• Dissemination Research Base (NICHCY)
• Evaluation's Role in Supporting Initiative Sustainability
• From Pilots to Practice: Speeding the Movement of Successful Pilots to Effective Practice
• IL State Board of Education, Comprehensive Learning Supports
• Implementing systemic change in education
• Implementation Science Literature Review
• Implementation of a Capacity-Building Framework to Improve School Climate in an Urban School System
• Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice
• Not in Our Name: Reclaiming the Democratic Vision of Small School Reform
• Quality and Equality in American Education: Systemic Problems, Systemic Solutions
• Redesigning a Core Function of Schools: A Systemic, Evidence-Based Approach to Student Support
• State Education Agencies' Acquisition and Use of Research Knowledge for School Improvement
• Strategies for Successful Scaling in Districts: Breaking the Cycle of the ‘Next New Thing’
• Theory of Change
• Transforming Educational Systems Toward Continuous Improvement
• University-School-Community Partnership as Vehicle for Leadership, Service, and Change: A Critical Brokerage Perspective
• Willing, Able -> Ready: Basics and Policy Implications of Readiness as a Key Component for Scaling up Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions. 
• Working Systemically in Action: A Guide for Facilitators

• Annenburg Institute for School Reform
• Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Center for Community Change
• Community Toolbox
• Education Northwest
• Learning Point Associates
• Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning
• National Implementation Research Network

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