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Implementing initiatives in schools: Step four is double-back

Implementation is a core part of school improvement. In this five-part series, Robbie Burns considers a four-step model of implementation as proposed in the book Making Room for Impact. This time he considers step four – evaluating your initiatives
Four Ds: Drawing upon a large body of evidence, Professor John Hattie and his colleagues have developed a four-step model for thinking both about de-implementation of existing initiatives and how we implement new, more impactful ones (see Hamilton et al, 2024) - Adobe Stock

Implementing initiatives in school: A Headteacher Update Series

 

This five-part series has been inspired by the recent book entitled Making Room for Impact: A de-implementation guide for educators from Professor John Hattie, Dr Arran Hamilton, and Professor Dylan Wiliam (Hamilton et al, 2024).

So far, we have explored why before any initiative is implemented in a school, the de-implementation of other programmes must be considered. We then considered the book’s proposed 4D implementation model: Discover, Decide, De-implement, Re-Decide (I have tweaked the language to make these four steps Discover, Design, Deliver, Double back).

In parts 2, 3 and 4 we focused on Discover, Design and Deliver. In this final part we will finish with doubling back – by which of course we mean evaluating and monitoring.

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