Promising Practice Introduction

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Promising Practice Introduction

• Welcome! Youre on the right track! Documenting
  your work will help you to communicate your
  success and help others around the state who are
  working to solve similar problems.
• This template is what youll use to capture the
  Promising Practice that evolved as you
  transferred what GLISI taught into practice, and
  will show your results.
• Note that slides 1-2 are for your information
  only
• Slide 1 Introduction
• Slide 2 Logistics of using the template
• Submit this completed Promising Practice template
  to your IIC.
• Good luck! We look forward to your submission. If
  your Practice is selected for publication, you
  will be contacted by GLISI to obtain your written
  permission.

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Note to Template Users

• Highlight the prompt text (in parentheses), and
  type over with the narrative about your
  experience.
• Please insert the type of information requested
  on each slide. If you have additional content to
  add, use insert new slide as needed. Note
  the presentation cannot be more than 15 slides.
• To update the blue bar to the right
• Click on View, Master, Slide Master
• Highlight (Insert Name and District here) and
  type in your own name and district
• Click on Close Master View
• DELETE the first slide and this slide once you
  have completed filling in this template!

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Promising Practice

• (Name)
• (District)
• (School Name)
• (Grade/Level, if applicable)
• (Position/Tenure at time you led the effort)
• (Current Position may or may not be applicable)
• (Telephone Number)
• (Email)
• (School Web site Address)

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About our Better-seeking Team

• Describe the team that developed and implemented
  this Promising Practice.
• (Who were the team members?
• How were the members selected?
• What structures and processes did you implement
  or improve for the BST to work as a collaborative
  team?)

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We faced this challenge

• (Describe the performance problem or need the
  team faced. Use data (demographics, perception,
  student learning, and/or school processes) to
  describe the gap in performance.)

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Our data analysis helped us define the causes of
the problem

• (List the probable root causes the team
  identified and describe the processes used to
  identify the real, actionable causes that needed
  to be addressed to solve the problem.)

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As part of our root cause analysisour Fishbone
Diagram looked like this
(Cause)
(Cause)
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(Cause)
(You may add or remove the causal bones as
needed)
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Our analysis compared our practices to best
practices. Here is how we determined what needed
to change

• (Describe how the team analyzed the current
  practices against best practices. List the
  changes in the current practice which were
  targeted based on your findings.)

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We selected this set of solutions to implement to
solve the problem.

• Describe the set of solutions that the team
  selected to implement.
• Summarize the reasons behind their selection
• (How did you ensure that the solutions addressed
  the real problem?
• What were the criteria used to select the
  solutions?)

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We took these actions to implement the set of
solutions

• Describe the tasks, sub-tasks, and steps you
  performed in implementing the set of solutions.
  Describe which parties were responsible for which
  actions. (Consider these questions and more
• What steps did you take to start implementation
  of the set of solutions?
• What barriers existed that needed to be overcome
  in order to implement your solutions?
• How did you overcome those barriers?)

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We tracked our impact and results

• Describe how you checked to see if the solutions
  were working, how you measured the results, and
  how -- and if -- you acted to institutionalize
  the solutions or do it differently in the future.
  (Consider these questions and more
• How was the effectiveness of the solutions
  measured?
• What are you monitoring and who is monitoring the
  implementation of this set of solutions?
• Will you make these solutions a way of doing
  business in the future? How or why not?
• In your opinion, under what conditions could
  others adopt your solutions or replicate your
  success?)

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We experienced these changes as a result

• What changes did you experience as a result of
  your efforts? (Consider these and more
• Improved team or organizational culture
• Improved operations, processes, and work systems
  that support teaching and learning
• Improved leader, faculty, and staff
  practices/ways of performing
• Improved student engagement, attitudes,
  achievement, etc.
• Improved stakeholder engagement and support)
• What evidence/measures told you that behavior has
  changed and is likely to positively impact
  student achievement?

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We gained these targeted measurable results
(Fill out chart below)
(Enter your chart below)
Sample Chart
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We also gained these unanticipated measurable
results

• (Add other charts, if applicable)

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These other factors influenced our results

• (Did other systems, programs, or processes,
  beyond the one you focused on, also impact the
  solutions?)

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We learned these lessons

• Lessons Learned (What lessons did you learn?
  How did you and the BST share your learning with
  others in the school and district? )

What this meant to us as professionals

• Meaning to you as a professional (How has this
  experience been meaningful to you and the team as
  professionals?)

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Our Solution Implementation Summary

• Challenge Identified (Include a brief statement
  of the challenge you were faced with)
• Set of solutions (State concisely the solutions
  implemented and the actions actually adopted and
  performed in your solutions)
• Changes Experienced (Identify the measurable
  changes that occurred and can be evidenced)
• Result Realized (Explain the measurable impact or
  result of the work adopted and performed)