Tools
State Leadership Team Materials
- Overview of State Leadership Team (SLT)
- Effective Teaming Strategies
- The Hexagon Tool
- SLT Meeting Planning and Evaluation Package
- State Coordinator(s) position description
- Considerations for State Annual Reports
- Considerations for a Written Sustainability and Scale-Up Plan
- RP Sustainability and Scale-up Planning Worksheet
- State Leadership Team (SLT) Checklist of Sustainability Features
Professional Development Network of Program Implementation Coaches Materials
- Overview of Professional Development Network of Program Implementation Coaches (PDN)
- Professional Development Network Q&A
- Program Coach Scope of Work
- Program Coach and Implementation Site Agreement
- Sample Letter of Invitation and Application Packet for PDN Members
- Sequence for PDN Training Events
Implementation and Demonstration Sites Materials
- Overview of Implementation and Demonstration Sites
- Demonstration Sites: Your Best Advocate for Practice and System Change
- Practitioner Coach position description
- Data Coordinator position description
- Sample Site Application Packet
- Program Leadership Team Q&A
- Sample News Release
- Implementation Site Development from Selection, through Practice Fidelity, to Scale-up and Demonstration
- Learning Lab: Exploring Coaching for Practice Change
Data Decision Making Materials
Tip Sheet Series: Evaluating the Implementation of Evidence-based Practices
This tip sheet series provides concise guidance for collecting and analyzing high-quality data on the implementation of evidence-based practices.
- Introduction
- Key Terms and Definitions
- Tip Sheet 1: What to Measure
- Tip Sheet 2: Characteristics of a High-quality Measurement Tool
- Tip Sheet 3: Establishing a Fidelity Threshold
- Tip Sheet 4: Summarizing Data for Decision-Making
- Tip Sheet 5: Analyzing Data for Decision-Making
- Entire Tip Sheet Series: Evaluating the Implementation of Evidence-based Practices
Measures
State Leadership Team Tools
- SLT Benchmarks of Quality: Implementing Evidence-based Practices Statewide
- SLT Benchmarks of Quality: Process for Self-Assessment
- SLT Benchmarks of Quality: Progress Tracking Spreadsheet (blank)
- SLT Benchmarks of Quality: Progress Tracking Spreadsheet (sample)
- SLT Benchmarks of Quality: Action Plan
Program Implementation Tools: Classroom
- RP Benchmarks of Quality for Classroom-Based Programs
- RP Observation Scale: Classrooms
- RP Observation Scale: Classroom (blank)
- RP Observation Scale: Classroom (sample)
- Classroom Benchmarks of Quality (blank)
- Classroom Benchmarks of Quality (sample)
- STARE (blank)
- STARE (sample)
- Pyramid Model Benchmarks of Quality for Classroom Programs
- Pyramid Model Benchmarks of Quality for Classroom Programs spreadsheet
- Teaching Pyramid Observation Scale Spreadsheet
Program Implementation Tools: Home-Visiting/Infant Toddler
- RP Benchmarks of Quality for Home-Visiting Programs
- RP Observation Scale: Home-Visiting
- RP Observation Scale: Home-Visiting (blank)
- RP Observation Scale: Home-Visiting (sample)
- Home-Visiting Benchmarks of Quality (blank)
- Home-Visiting Benchmarks of Quality (sample)
- Teaching Pyramid Infant Toddler Observation Scale Spreadsheets
Coaching Tools
- RP Practitioner Coaching Log: Classroom
- RP Practitioner Coaching Log: Home-Visiting
- Program Coach Contact Record
- Individual Coaching Log (blank)
- Individual Coaching Log: A (sample)
- Individual Coaching Log: B (sample)
- Individual Home-Visiting Coaching Log (blank)
- Individual Home-Visiting Coaching Log (sample)
- Program Classroom Coaching Log (blank)
- Program Classroom Coaching Log (sample)
- Program Home-Visiting Coaching Log (blank)
- Program Home-Visiting Coaching Log (sample)
- Pyramid Model Coaching Classroom Teachers Log
- Pyramid Model Coaching Classroom Teachers Individual spreadsheet
- Pyramid Model Coaching Classroom Teachers Program spreadsheet
Data Decisions
- Data Decision-Making for Program-Wide Implementation
- Key Considerations for Reaching and Maintaining Implementation/Practice Fidelity
- Look-Think-Act Model
- Data Decision Making for the State Leadership Team
- Data Decision Making: Benchmarks of Quality: State Leadership Team
- Data Decision Making: Benchmarks of Quality: Program-Wide in Centers or Home-Visiting Program
- Data Decision Making: Child Outcomes STARE or Child Engagement Scale
- Data Decision Making: Coaching Log
- Data Decision Making: Reaching Potentials through Recommended Practices Observation Scale: RP2OS-C and RP2OS-HV
- Look-Think-Act Model for Pyramid
Sample Data Reports
- Utah RP2 SLT Annual Report
- Program Annual Data Report
- Program Coaching Contact Summary
- Sample Classroom Infographics
- Sample Home-visiting Infographics
Companion Resources
These companion resources to the Statewide Implementation Guide will help state teams understand the details of implementation stages, timelines and steps, and the components of the System Framework infrastructure needed to support and sustain statewide systems change.
- ECTA System Framework: The Personnel/Workforce component and Self-Assessment may be especially helpful. https://ectacenter.org/sysframe
- DEC Recommended Practices: practices known to improve learning outcomes and promote development of children (0-5) who have or are at risk for developmental delays or disabilities. http://www.dec-sped.org/dec-recommended-practices
- ECTA Practice Improvement Tools: Performance Checklists, Practice Guides and other tools. https://ectacenter.org/decrp
- State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP): statewide implementation and scale-up of evidence-based practices is a key aspect of the SSIP. https://ectacenter.org/topics/ssip
- A Guide to the Implementation Process: Stages, Steps and Activities: describes the stages, steps and activities of implementing evidence-based practices. https://ectacenter.org/implementprocess
- Learning Lab: Coaching for Practice Change: provides a remote learning opportunity to explore how coaching for practice change can be supported by states and used within local programs to improve implementation of evidence-based practices. https://ectacenter.org/~calls2017/learninglab.asp
- National Implementation Research Network (NIRN): Active Implementation Hub http://implementation.fpg.unc.edu