3 key factors lead to successful implementation
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Through participation in Learning Forward’s What Matters Now Network, Ohio coaches and district leaders recently began to support several teacher-based teams and building leadership teams in three areas: identifying evidence-based strategies for at-risk students; using a targeted decision tool to plan for instruction; and using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles to determine how students respond to instruction.
Here’s how ODE leaders, in partnership with network facilitators, ensured strategic implementation of this new stream of coaching work:
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