: Improving School Leadership by Uniting John Rodgers explores the behaviour of uniting within the implementation process
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Improving School Leadership by Uniting
John Rodgers explores the behaviour of uniting within the implementation process
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John Rodgers
Mounts Bay Academy
John has been a teacher for 24 years, the last 19 in Cornwall. He currently works as an Assistant Principal at Mounts Bay Academy, Penzance. He is also the Content Lead for Secondary Literacy for RS Network. Click here to read more.
the relevance of uniting as a behaviour that drives effective implementation.
As the new EEF guidance report “A School’s Guide to Implementation” shows, one of the most effective ways school leaders can improve implementation initiatives and the implementation climate, is to ensure the behaviours that drive effective implementation are embedded throughout all stages of the change process.
The behaviours listed are:
Engage people so they can shape what happens while also providing overall direction.
Unite people around what is being implemented, how it will be implemented, and why it matters.
Reflect, monitor, and adapt to improve implementation.1
As Freya Morrisey has written,
“the evidence indicates that poor implementation can often be traced to differing values, understanding and practices among staff. If the intended practice or change is not clearly understood, and if all staff involved do not understand their role within it, there is likely to be ambiguity or inaction because people do not understand the what, the how, the why, or the importance their small part has within the overall strategy.”
Embedding the behaviour of UNITING through all phases of the implementation process is essential.
School leaders should approach this by enabling and supporting activities that UNITE members of the school community. Stakeholders should be UNITED on:
Views and values
Knowledge and understanding
Skills and techniques
The implementation process
The evidence review that sits behind the EEF guidance report, conducted by Dr Darren Moore et al details very clearly the importance of UNITING.
School leaders seeking improvement in implementation and thus pupil outcomes should therefore embed strategies that enable the school community (all stakeholders) to UNITE.
This was the second blog in our series of Improving School Leadership
