TLA has learned through its work with pioneering educators that leading and sustaining data-driven, personalized approaches to teaching and learning requires coherent, system-wide shifts in strategy and practice. There is no single correct pathway or timeline for building readiness or action given the different contexts and assets that exist across a school system.
Despite differences, we have found there are common implementation components — “conditions for scale”— that support the planning, adoption, and scaling of innovative initiatives. Leaders seeking to implement and scale work in classrooms must align critical supports, systems, and structures, as well as ongoing processes to establish, improve, and scale work over time. TLA’s Innovative Learning Implementation Framework outlines these components of common conditions.
There is no one “right” way to use this tool, but we suggest that teams can use it to:
- Develop shared language across critical system and school actors;
- Identify and communicate across these different actors the necessary conditions for change, including often overlooked non-instructional areas;
- Assess current capacity and organize cross-departmental work ahead; and,
- Monitor and reflect on progress and sticking points.
This framework was developed based on TLA’s experience in the field as well as deep research and review of the great work of other organizations nationally.
