Monday, April 22, 2013

Baby Steps to Successful Implementation of your School-Wide Vision


In this series of posts, I've been walking you through how a literacy coach casts a curricular vision for their school, and turn it into a reality.  This is not a process that will be done overnight.  How will you lead your teachers to excellence?  What next steps would make the biggest impact in this area?

Only the best: Dream a little.  Think about what would be the ideal demonstration of this area.  What resources would be involved?  What components would it have?  What would the teachers sound and look like?  What would the kids be engaged in?  Write all of this down.  This is where you want to take your teachers.  This is the goal.   You will lead your teachers towards this goal.

Baby Steps:  Next, come up with the baby steps to help your teachers reach that goal.  These baby steps could take years.  Once you have these written down, you will be able to divide them up into a yearly plan and then a quarterly plan.  My personal plan is every 3 months.  The next time you conduct school-wide walk throughs you will assess if the baby steps you implemented in this time period have been successfully implemented.  You will determine if the current plan of action has been effective or not.  Writing down your plan of action ensures that you will remain focused and it allows you to go back and check to see what if your current goals were attained or if further instruction is required.  


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