Implementing Effective Change series
Implementation matters. Even the greatest idea remains only an idea until it is successfully implemented.
Working in partnership with the EEF and the Research Schools Network we are creating a series of resource packs to support your team in working collaboratively to develop their implementation practice, making sure changes you implement in school have meaningful and sustained impact.
Start date
On demand
Format
Downloadable workshop resources
Cost
Free for SSAT members
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In partnership with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and the Research Schools Network.
Over the past year we have been working in partnership with the EEF, the Research Schools Network and a pilot group of schools from the SSAT network to co-construct a series of resource packs focusing on implementing effective change.
Effective implementation is the cornerstone of all meaningful and sustainable change in education, whether your focus is classroom, curriculum or culture.
‘However well-evidenced an educational idea or intervention is, what really matters is how it manifests itself in the day to day work of people in schools.’ (Education Endowment Foundation, 2024)
The Implementing Effective Change resource packs will offer a four-part programme exploring the practical implications of EEF’s implementation guidance report (2024). The packs are carefully designed using the Teacher Learning Community model providing you with a series of 16 structured 75-minute workshops ready to deliver with your team.
The packs provide useful prompts for discussion, plus practical resources and templates to support your practice. The sessions offer interesting food for thought whether you are an experienced senior leader or someone who is new to leading change in schools.
The four phases of the programme are explored through the lens of the behaviours that drive effective implementation and the contextual factors that influence it:
1. Explore
- What’s the problem and what’s already going on?
- What does the research evidence suggest and how does it relate to our setting?
- What are the barriers and enablers to change in our setting?
- How challenging is the approach to implement?
2. Prepare
- What are the guiding principles of implementation planning?
- What are the essential practices that underpin the approach?
- What strategies will you implement to overcome barriers and build on your enablers?
- How will you monitor implementation?
3. Deliver
- How will you support and encourage staff to deliver the change?
- How will you motivate staff, maintain momentum and fidelity?
- How will you identify and solve problems?
- How will you provide professional development to embed new skills, knowledge and behaviours?
4. Sustain
- How will you build capacity, sustainability, and succession planning?
- How will you recognise, celebrate and share good practice?
- How will you review and act to inform next steps?
- How will you plan for further development – sustain, scale or de-implement?
The first two packs focusing on the Explore and Prepare phases will be released in Autumn 2025. Register to be notified when they are released.
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