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The School Change Process
Using continuous improvement principles, our process is based on what we’ve seen work best for schools and what the research indicates.
THEORY OF CHANGE
The School Change Process
The process below is based on continuous improvement principles, and we use it with every school team. Our process is not only based on what we’ve seen work best for schools and what the research indicates, it is grounded in our Theory of Change.
The Challenge Success School Partnership is an inclusive, community-driven collaboration that leverages the Challenge Success Change Process to increase well-being, enhance belonging, and deepen engagement with learning for your students.
PHASE 1: IGNITE
Prepare for the Journey
Teams lay the foundation for change work around wellbeing, belonging, and engagement. This can include building a shared purpose for the work ahead, clear roles and responsibilities, and creating structures for effective communication and collaboration.
Investigate the Student Experience
Teams gather and analyze data on student wellbeing, belonging, and engagement. This can include surveys, interviews, focus groups, and other forms of data collection to identify areas for improvement and establish baseline data.
Define the Focus Area for Improvement
Teams unpack the student experience to explore underlying root causes, identify specific areas for improvements in well-being, belonging, and/or engagement, and orient toward appropriate actions for the community. This may involve action planning, sharing data more widely with the community, data analysis protocols, and other forms of data collection to deepen understanding of root causes and opportunities.
Identify Clear Vision for Improvement
Teams design a clear outcome for change. Teams use new skills, perspectives, and knowledge to create a clear aim for improvement in wellbeing, belonging engagement. This can include an aim statement aligned with identified hopes for improvements in student outcomes.
PHASE 2: ENGAGE
Design S.P.A.C.E. Change Ideas
Teams design change ideas with specific goals aligned with their vision for improving student wellbeing, belonging, and engagement. This may involve brainstorming, creative ideation, prototyping, learning, and collaborating to create an action plan. Visit our blog to see specific examples of changes schools have made within the S.P.A.C.E. Framework and read case studies and success stories from our past partner schools.
Engage in Cycles of Inquiry
Teams put the plan into action by implementing change ideas, and monitoring and assessing the progress toward the shared outcomes. This can include implementing interventions, programs, or initiatives to improve student well-being, belonging, and engagement in learning, as well as ongoing data collection and analysis to track progress.
Reflect on Individual & Community Impact
Teams evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions and strategies implemented in the Cycles of Inquiry, measure results, and decide whether or not to institutionalize the change efforts. This can involve analyzing data and feedback from stakeholders, reflecting on successes and challenges, and making adjustments as needed to continue improving student well-being, belonging, and engagement
PHASE 3: SUSTAIN
Cultivate Collective Growth
Teams engage with specific communities of practice to support ongoing growth and implementation This may involve joining a focused cohort and/or partnership to deepen practices that sustain a specific policy and practice change around student wellbeing, belonging, and engagement.
Develop Growth & Implementation Plan
Teams establish practices and systems that support change efforts and ongoing improvement of student well-being, belonging, and engagement in learning. This may involve identifying areas for ongoing improvement, developing new strategies, and co-creating a sustainability plan for long-term impact.
A RESEARCH-BASED, EQUITY-CENTERED FRAMEWORK
Policies and Practices to Drive Change
Research supports numerous changes schools can make to improve student well-being, engagement, and belonging. View our SPACE Framework for a list of those changes to see how other schools have made these changes and how to start at your school.
