Practice-Research Partnership: Assessing District-Wide Implementation of Literacy Curricula Through District-University Collaboration (Poster 35)

• In Event: Saturday Poster Session 3:05 pm
  In Poster Session: Literacy and Mathematics Instruction

Abstract

During 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, DISTRICT implemented the literacy curricula HMH (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Into Reading across seventy-four elementary schools. Consistent with their commitment to providing usable information to support innovation, district leaders engaged in a research-partnership with UNIVERSITY to investigate this implementation. The resulting study was a joint effort between UNIVERSITY and the DISTRICT Research office (the Research Team) that also included direct engagement with district staff supporting school-level implementation. This paper reports on the implementation study which used the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) framework and diagnostic tools -- an approach designed study implementation of change or innovation in educational contexts (Hall & Hord, 2020). It also serves as an illustration of a productive practice-research partnership.

Authors

• Julie R. OBrian-Oxenford, University of Colorado - Denver

• Gene E. Hall, Concerns Based Systems, Inc.

• Heather MacGillivary, Jefferson County Public Schools

• Kate Olson, Jeffco Public Schools

• Kent Seidel, University of Colorado - Denver