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Overview
What this guidance report covers
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.
The guidance focuses on three key elements:
- The behaviours that drive effective implementation.
- The contextual factors that facilitate implementation.
- A structured process to enact implementation.
Please explore the resources set out here to get a flavour of the School's Guide to Implementation guidance and how the three recommendations interact.
For more detail, please download the full report.
The animation below provides an overview of the three elements and explains how they work together. The process is designed to support you to do implementation, while the behaviours and contextual factors help you to do it well.
In the podcast below, hosts Alex Quigley and Kirsten Mould are joined by expert guests. They discuss implementation in schools, exploring how we think about implementation and what it looks like in a practical sense.
- Jonathan Sharples, Professor of Evidence-Informed Leadership at Manchester Metropolitan University
- Phil Stock, Director of Greenshaw Research School
- Laura Spence, Director of Gloucestershire Research School