Managing Implementation

School improvement initiatives often involve extensive change. At SEDL, we have learned that meaningful change is a process that requires deliberate leadership and action. We offer services, strategies, and resources—including our highly popular Concerns-Based Adoption Model—to help educators manage the implementation of new initiatives, create conditions for successful change, address staff concerns, and measure progress.

Professional Development

Services We Provide

Our Center for High-Performing Schools provides a range of professional development and consulting services to assist administrators, evaluators, and researchers who are charged with managing and measuring a new initiative or reform in school settings.

Strategic Support

“What we fail almost always to do is to check up and see how well teachers and administrators are using a new program or process in the school or in the classroom in order to give them additional information and coaching and follow-up to help them improve."— Shirley Hord, SEDL Scholar Emerita

Concerns-Based Adoption Model

The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) is a conceptual framework that describes, explains, and predicts probable teacher concerns and behaviors during the process of implementing a school reform.

Video: Introduction to CBAM

Video: Stages of Concern – Seven stages of emotions and perceptions that educators experience when adopting a change
Video: Levels of Use – Eight levels of actions and behaviors educators engage in as they adopt a change
Video: Innovation Configurations – How an innovation is being implemented as shown along a continuum

Significant Work

Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC): The SECC provides professional development and technical assistance to the state education agencies of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts. Work varies by state.

Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC): The TXCC provides professional development and technical assistance to the Texas Education Agency and the state’s 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

Center for High-Performing Schools: Through this Center, SEDL builds the capacity of district and school leaders to plan, implement, and sustain improvement efforts, including measuring the implementation and impact of reform initiatives.

Cullman County School System: In Alabama, SEDL is providing training and technical assistance to staff of the Cullman County School System on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model. This project will assist district leaders in developing a systemwide process for evaluating the implementation and impact of school improvement initiatives.

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Resources

The following products support the Concerns-Based Adoption Model, a conceptual framework that describes, explains, and predicts probable teacher behaviors throughout the school change process.
	Taking Charge of Change This easy-to-read introduction to the Concerns-Based Adoption Model is a cornerstone in the school-change literature. The book provides concepts, tools, and techniques that educators can use to facilitate school change and improvement programs.
	Measuring Implementation in Schools: Levels of Use This updated manual discusses how individuals behave and react with respect to specific change. The tool helps researchers and evaluators determine the extent to which an innovation is being implemented by distinguishing among three levels of nonuse and five levels of use.
	Measuring Implementation in Schools: Innovation Configurations This updated manual describes how to use Innovation Configuration Maps to clarify what an innovation or change looks like along a continuum from high-quality implementation to least-desired practices.
	Measuring Implementation in Schools: The Stages of Concern Questionnaire This updated manual explains how to use and score the Stages of Concern Questionnaire, which assesses teacher concerns about new programs and practices. The product includes a MS Word version of the questionnaire and scoring sheets, as well as a scoring program in Excel and SAS formats.
	Stages of Concern Questionnaire Online This online version of the Stages of Concern Questionnaire enables researchers and evaluators to use their computers to score questionnaires; analyze the results; and produce multiple types of reports, including individual, total-sample, and user-specified subgroup reports.
	Measuring Change Facilitator Stages of Concern: A Manual for Use of the CFSoC Questionnaire This book is for use with change facilitators such as principals, staff developers, and teacher leaders who have concerns that are identical in dynamics to those on the front line of educational innovation.
	A Manual for Assessing Open-Ended Statements of Concern about an Innovation This manual equips you with procedures for analyzing and understanding teachers' concerns when presented as open-ended statements.