Action Overview: Evaluate the supports for instructional practices and curriculum

· Study — analyze the data about the process, fidelity and outcomes and ask, “Did we DO what we intended? How well?” and eventually ask, “Did it make a difference?”

· Adjust — decide how to adjust the next iteration of the plan to improve implementation.

· know how or why their supports for instruction and curriculum are working or not working

· Identify what to sustain, what to adjust, what to stop, and what to start with regard to supports

· Monitor and adjust regularly

· Begin a new improvement cycle with decisions that have been made based on data

1. Use a protocol to analyze data, evaluate supports, and make decisions about next steps. This should be done regularly; ideally, the leadership team engages in this work as part of implementation cycles multiple times each year.

2. Use a process to analyze the organization’s systems and infrastructure to make decisions about next steps. This is an organizational capacity assessment. It should also be done regularly, but less frequently than Approach 1.

1. See Activity Directions: Shared Understanding of a Decision-support Data System for support in identifying, collecting, and using data for decision-making.

2. See Activity Directions: Data Displays for guidance on preparing data displays.

3. See Activity Directions: Action Planning for more on developing an action plan; see Handout: Planning Template for one option.