Now that a destination has been selected, the district team must make sure it’s prepared for the journey. A district team functions well when the members have the appropriate knowledge, skills, functions, and authority to support the needed infrastructure development to implement the new initiative. Planning infrastructure improvements is one of the team’s primary tasks.
Planning an Initiative Outcomes Checklist
Meeting Minutes Planning an Initiative
The District Implementation Team Considers:
Revisit team composition are all needed members at the table
Re-confirm team members have appropriate knowledge, skills, authority to plan infrastructure improvements
Verify the initiative was well defined
A strong functioning implementation team is characterized by best practices in:
Basic meeting protocol, e.g., roles assigned, previous meeting notes reviewed, goals and objectives, process to record items to discuss in future, action plan developed
Attention to Ongoing Improvement Cycles, e.g., review action plan, guiding questions, use of data
Attention to managing challenges, e.g., activities to engage all voices, reminders that this work is a process, review of information to be communicated
The Literacy Team must also develop self-assessment and system-assessment tools to monitor team efficacy. Check-in questions could include:
Are we accomplishing meeting goals?
Are we disseminating communications effectively?
Do we have a process in place for teachers to communicate feedback, needs, and successes back to the Literacy Team?
How are we attending to obstacles and communication break-downs?
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