Sustaining Systemic Improvement: Continuing to move forward Grace Kelley Marcella E. Franczkowski

Strategies for sustaining SSIP strategies and activities to make continued progress toward your SIMR Create a culture that supports the staff and stakeholders in understanding the change expected. Plan for and address resistance. Encourage people to innovate and seek solutions. Communicate the expected changes in practice, roles and responsibility. Create communication loops to respond to successes and challenges.

Strategies for sustaining SSIP strategies and activities to make continued progress toward your SIMR Build capacity of staff, allocate resources accordingly. Administrative changes that provide the policies, procedures and practices supporting the practice change. Evaluate progress, use data to make informed adjustments as needed. How do you sustain/scale up, maintain stakeholder engagement, and make continued progress.

Question How do you sustain/scale up, maintain stakeholder engagement, and make continued progress…….

Switch: How to change when change is hard Direct the rider Motivate the elephant Shape the path

Encourage an Innovative Spirit Local implementation teams often need permission to veer from the norm a little and be creative to come up with practical solutions that work best for their area. What looks like refusal to comply may be innovation for a local community. What is working today and how can you do more of it?

Direct the rider Provide crystal-clear direction Find the bright spots Find ways to reproduce the bright spots among others What looks like resistance if often lake of clarity Communicate the expected changes in practice, roles and responsibility.

Be Responsive Listen and show that you heard Communicate clear roles and responsibilities Create a path – point to the destination – look for small wins Stakeholders need to know their feedback was valued and used. Otherwise, why spend more time providing feedback that seems to go nowhere?

Motivate the elephant Shrink the change Grow your people Its critical to engage people’s emotional side Shrink the change Grow your people What looks like laziness is often exhaustion

Switch – how to change, when change is hard Provide crystal clear direction Engage the emotional side – Why is this important Shape the path

Sustaining Systemic Improvement: Continuing to Move Maryland Forward Marcella E. Franczkowski Assistant State Superintendent Maryland State Department of Education Division of Special Education/Early Intervention Services

Sharpen the Focus for 2020

Narrow the Gap

Regionalization

Differentiated Framework

Layering of Funds to Blend Services

SSIP Implementation Infrastructure Local Systems Coaches State Executive Leadership Team SSIP Coordinator Early Intervention Providers SSIP Part C Local Implementation Teams SSIP Part B Local External Stakeholders and Advisory Groups Part C State Intra-/Interagency Implementation Team Part B Cross Departmental Implementation Team School Implementation Teams State Evidence-Based Practice Expert Teams DSE/EIS Division B-21 Core Leadership Team

SSIP Implementation Tools

How do we maintain the systems changes we have been working so hard to achieve?

Discussion Please share your thoughts, ideas and strategies

What are some of the key components of supporting and sustaining systems improvements at all levels?

How do we keep our staff and stakeholders engaged? Please join the conversation and share you ideas

How do you maintain the systems changes we have been working so hard to achieve?

Thank you! Hang in there…