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Activity Set 4: Choosing and Implementing School Climate Reference Manual on Making School Climate Improvements ACTIVITY SET 4 | Choosing and Implementing School Climate Interventions To access the entire Reference Manual, go to https://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov/SCIRP/Reference-Manual Choosing and Implementing School Climate Interventions (ACTIVITY SET 4) Introduction After you understand your school climate strengths and needs through data collection, analysis, and review, you are ready to select, plan for, and implement school climate interventions that target needs identified in your data. Here, in Activity Set 4, you use a data-driven Planning for School Climate approach to choosing and refining school climate Improvements interventions. It also is important to leverage the work in (ACTIVITY SET 1) Activity Set 2: Engaging Stakeholders in School Climate Improvements because interventions are more likely to be implemented as intended when members of the school Engaging Stakeholders in community are involved in the process of selecting and School Climate implementing the interventions. Improvements (ACTIVITY SET 2) This activity set is composed of two action steps: (1) choose, plan for, and implement programmatic interventions; and (2) evaluate and refine the choice of interventions and implementation strategies Collecting and and continue planning for improvement and sustainability. In addition, strategies within this activity Reporting School set help you begin thinking about how you will evaluate and sustain the selected interventions Climate Data, EDSCLS Users during an extended period. Doing this helps you to consider the systems, structures, and practices (Activity Set 3A) that make school climate efforts an institutionalized practice in your district, CMO/EMO, or school. ACTION STEP 1. Choose, Plan for, and Implement Programmatic Interventions Collecting and Reporting School ■ OBJECTIVE 4.1.1: Review current interventions that address school climate at multiple tiers Climate Data, Non-EDSCLS Users ■ OBJECTIVE 4.1.2: Review summary of results of data analysis to inform the selection of (ACTIVITY SET 3B) interventions from a multi-tiered perspective ■ OBJECTIVE 4.1.3: Assess whether current interventions are addressing your identified Choosing and needs at multiple tiers Implementing School Climate ■ OBJECTIVE 4.1.4: Assess readiness to implement interventions and specific innovations Interventions (ACTIVITY SET 4) that support a multi-tiered approach ■ OBJECTIVE 4.1.5: Select or plan to modify interventions based on needs and priorities revealed by the data Monitoring and Evaluating Overall ■ OBJECTIVE 4.1.6: Participate in a thoughtful planning process for implementing the School Climate Improvements selected interventions (ACTIVITY SET 5) ■ OBJECTIVE 4.1.7: Implement interventions, ensuring fidelity of implementation or appropriate adaptation ■ OBJECTIVE 4.1.8: Use data to monitor the fidelity of implementation of interventions ■ OBJECTIVE 4.1.9: Continue school climate messaging to districts/CMOs/EMOs and schools at different levels of implementation REFERENCE MANUAL on Making School Climate Improvements 134 ACTION STEP 2. Evaluate and Refine the Choice of Interventions and Implementation Strategies and Continue Planning for Improvement and Sustainability ■ OBJECTIVE 4.2.1: Plan how to assess implementation with fidelity across time (e.g., during Introduction a five-year period) District or State Example of Implementing Programmatic Interventions Component Choose, Plan for, and Implement Interventions Planning for School Climate (ACTIVITY SET 4, ACTION STEP 1 [4.1]) Improvements (ACTIVITY SET 1) It is likely that you already are implementing initiatives and interventions that address school climate. However, it is not always the case that they are DEFINING INTERVENTIONS Engaging targeted to your specific needs (i.e., not informed by Stakeholders in “Interventions” encompass specific School Climate your school climate data), implemented with fidelity practices with defined activities, policies, Improvements (i.e., not implemented as they were intended to be and initiatives; broad strategies, (ACTIVITY SET 2) used), or connected or aligned with one another approaches, and effective practices; as (i.e., not addressing all needs or not duplicating efforts). well as evidence-based programs (EBPs) Collecting and The purpose of this action is to review your school and those with evidence of promise Reporting School Climate Data, climate data with an eye toward identifying those school EDSCLS Users climate interventions that will best fit your needs. (Activity Set 3A) Thus, revisit the interventions already underway in your school(s) to determine whether you want to continue, modify, discard, or replace them, using your school climate data and your mission and Collecting and vision to guide your decisions. The nine objectives within this action step help you carefully select, Reporting School plan for, implement, and evaluate school climate interventions. The suggested strategies provide Climate Data, Non-EDSCLS Users strategies for reviewing and selecting interventions based on the needs identified in your data and (ACTIVITY SET 3B) implementing those interventions with fidelity. Choosing and Implementing OBJECTIVE 4.1.1: Review current interventions that address school School Climate climate at multiple tiers Interventions (ACTIVITY SET 4) Purpose of reviewing current interventions at multiple tiers Conducting a review of current climate-related Monitoring and Evaluating Overall interventions helps you understand what climate- Use the strategies found in School Climate related interventions you currently implement, how the Objective 1 1 5: Review data and Improvements (ACTIVITY SET 5) interventions relate to each other, and how well they current interventions being implemented are implemented. In addition, within this objective, you at multiple tiers, prior to tackling the are provided with strategies on how to review your objectives within this action goal, as current interventions based on the data collected during some strategies appear in both places Activity Set 3: Collecting and Reporting School Climate Data. These strategies will help you determine whether you have the organizational capacity to adapt or modify current interventions or implement new ones. (See Objective 4.1.5: Select or plan to modify interventions based on needs and priorities REFERENCE MANUAL on Making School Climate Improvements 135 revealed by the data.) As you review your climate-related interventions, confirm that you offer interventions through a multi-tiered approach, providing supports to all students and other members of the school community. This approach will ensure that current interventions provide a Introduction foundation of universal supports to all students (Tier 1), extra support for those who need more assistance (Tier 2), and intensive and targeted supports for those who most need them (Tier 3). Strategies for reviewing current interventions at multiple tiers a. Refer to the current list of climate-related Planning for interventions previously identified (see 4.1.1 EXAMPLE OUTPUTS School Climate AND PRODUCTS Improvements Objective 1.1.5: Review data and current (ACTIVITY SET 1) interventions being implemented at multiple tiers) • List of current interventions organized to understand what is being implemented and by school climate topic area the extent to which they are implemented as • A document listing current Engaging designed, as well as the impact of the interventions, whether they have Stakeholders in been evaluated, and findings from interventions, if known. School Climate the evaluations Improvements (ACTIVITY SET 2) b. Consider the scope and focus of climate-related • A document mapping current interventions to determine (1) if interventions interventions to the needs each is target the needs identified from the data analysis designed to address, using school Collecting and climate topic areas as a framework Reporting School and (2) if educators implement interventions Climate Data, as intended. EDSCLS Users (Activity Set 3A) c. Determine the research base behind the climate-related interventions you currently implement. For example, consider if an external evaluator conducted evaluations of Collecting and your interventions within your context or if evaluations of the intervention were Reporting School conducted elsewhere. Climate Data, Non-EDSCLS Users (ACTIVITY SET 3B) d. Assess the effectiveness of current activities and interventions that are designed to address identified needs based on outcomes and implementation measures. Choosing and e. Develop a matrix that lists the current climate-related interventions and the needs each Implementing School Climate intervention addresses. This approach helps determine if there are duplicative efforts, as Interventions well as how the interventions align to comprehensively support the topic areas of school (ACTIVITY SET 4) climate. (You can use this framework when working on Objective 4.1.3: Assess whether current programs are addressing your identified needs at multiple tiers.) Monitoring and Evaluating Overall Related resources for reviewing current interventions at multiple tiers School Climate Improvements ■ School Climate Improvement Online Module 6: Selecting Evidence-Based (ACTIVITY SET 5) Interventions (National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments [NCSSLE]) ● This online module provides an activity to help think through how to choose an intervention. ■ Student Engagement (NCSSLE Webinar) ● This webinar
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