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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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.

8. 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?

9. 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

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

11. 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

12. Sharpen the Focus for 2020

13. Narrow the Gap

14. Regionalization

15. Differentiated Framework

16. Layering of Funds to Blend Services

17. 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

18. SSIP Implementation Tools

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

20. Discussion
Please share your thoughts, ideas and strategies

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

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

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

24. Thank you! Hang in there…