Education Endowment Foundation:A School’s Guide to Implementation

A School’s Guide to Implementation

Maximise the impact of new approaches and practices.
Review of evidence on implementation in education:Implementation in education

Third Edition

Published

School Phases

Secondary, Primary

An educational approach or idea may seem great in principle, but what really matters is how it manifests itself in the day-to-day work of people in schools, colleges, and early years settings. Our guidance on effective implementation - and its accompanying resources – help educators select, and embed, evidence-informed approaches in line with their vision for improvement.

Based on a new review of the evidence, the guidance is focused on three key elements:

• The behaviours that drive effective implementation.

• The contextual factors that facilitate implementation.

• A structured, but flexible, process to enact implementation.

An animation is available that provides an overview of the three elements and explains how they work together – see here.

The process is designed to support you to do implementation, while the behaviours and contextual factors help you to do it well.

Prof. Jonathan Sharples, Jon Eaton and Jamila Boughelaf

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Evidence to Decision Framework

Frameworks to demonstrate the evidence used to inform each recommendation of the implementation guidance report.
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Implementation in education

How new approaches and strategies can be implemented by school leaders to maximise the chances of success.