It's Not the Stuff, It's the Staff: The Process of Scaling In to a School

• In Event: Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: Qualitative Explorations of Policy Implementation in Districts and Schools

Abstract

Recent history of school reform has numerous examples of promising programs that are developed and shown to have a positive impact on student outcomes but encounter significant challenges to scale and sustainability. These challenges include building teacher buy-in, attending to the organizational context in which innovations are enacted, and aligning new practices with the broader array of programs that exist in schools. This paper is situated within the broader context of identifying how to more effectively scale and sustain effective practices. By both enacting a new approach to scale and studying how key principles of the approach contribute to scale, this paper provides crucial knowledge about how improvement science and design-based implementation research may lead to meaningful changes in schools.

Authors

• Marisa A. Cannata, Vanderbilt University

• Tuan Nguyen, Vanderbilt University - Peabody College

• Christopher Redding, Vanderbilt University - Peabody College