Dr. Pat Reeves presentation for the WMU ACL Fish Bowl session at the 2017 ACL WMU workshop at the Traverse City, MI Resort featuring the leadership team from Oriole Park Elementary, Wyoming (Michigan) Public Schools.

1. Implementing
School Renewal Initiatives With
Integrity
An ACL Fish Bowl Session
Featuring:
The Team from Oriole Park Elementary
Wyoming Public Schools

2. The Many Faces of Implementation
Integrity
Is the strategy
or initiative
The Right
Work at the
Right Time for
your school?
How do you know?
Student Background
Data
School Process Data
Student Achievement
Other Student Data
Perception Data

3. The Three Faces for Today’s Work
Face 1:
Who will your
Renewal work impact
and how?
Improve or
Otherwise Change:
Performance
Perception
Behavior
Conditions
Climate/Culture
Participation, etc.

4. The Three Faces for Today’s Work
Face 2:
How will you Measure
the intended impact?
• Academic Measures
• Behavioral Measures
• Health Measures
• Safety, Security, and other
Well Being Measures
• Participation Measures
• Other Non-Cognitive
Measures: e.g. motivation,
character, GRIT, leadership,
persistence, efficacy,
confidence, etc.

5. The Three Faces for Today’s Work
Face 3: Who will need to play a role
in the implementation? What role
will they play?
What are the Vital Behaviors for each
role? (Grenny, et al., 2013)?
How will you monitor that the vital
behaviors are happening as needed
to achieve implementation?

6. The Fish Bowl
In this activity,
the team from
Wyoming H.S.
and I will talk
through all
three of the
issues that
influence
implementation
Fidelity and
Integrity

7. After the Fish Bowl
We will do 2 Things:
1. Move to breakout
rooms to debrief
using page 3 of
the handout
2. After the debrief,
each school team
will have work
time to talk thru
the 3 Faces
using pages 4-5 of
the handout

8. Before We Begin
1. Audience Role: Follow along and make notes
on page 3 of handout. You will use these notes
in the debriefing
2. Please appreciate the team doing the Fish
Bowl
3. Understand that this is not rehearsed, so the
team may have quick answers for some
questions and may need more time afterward
to continue processing and answering the
questions.

9. Fish Bowl Conversation
Part 1
1. The Renewal Activity or Initiative
2. How we know it is the Right Work at the
Right Time for our school
3. The Impact We Want:
a. On Who?
b. What kind of impact?

10. Time For Audience Processing
Please stand in place and talk with 1-2 others
• What caught your attention in the way the
Wyoming team described the impact they
want to make?

11. Fish Bowl Conversation
Part 2
1. How we will measure the impact we want
to make with our renewal activity or
initiative: Our long-term goal and
measures
2. How we will benchmark our progress: Our
progress monitoring benchmark goals and
measures

12. Time For Audience Processing
Think about the ideas the Wyoming team
discussed for measuring impact:
• On the back of your handout, write down any
measures you think might be appropriate for
your school’s renewal work.
• Share what you wrote down quickly with one
other person near you.

13. Fish Bowl Conversation
Part 3
1. Who will play a role in the implementation?
2. What role will they play?
3. What are the Vital Behaviors for each role?
4. How we will monitor that the vital behaviors
are happening as needed to achieve
implementation?

14. Time For Audience Processing
Think about the following questions and make
notes on your thinking on the back of the
handout:
• How would you know what the Vital Behaviors
are for implementing your school’s renewal
activities or initiatives?
• How would you monitor those behaviors?

15. Time To Debrief The Fish Bowl
• There are four breakout rooms
• Please move with your team to your assigned
breakout room
• WMU facilitators will be in each breakout
room to lead the debriefing conversations
• Use page 3 of the handout for the debriefing
conversation

16. Time to work with your school team
• Tomorrow morning: After breakfast, the morning
is yours to work together
• Please use pages 4-5 of the handout to guide
your team in applying what you saw in the Fish
Bowl to one or more of the renewal activities or
initiatives for your school. This work will help you
prepare for next school year.
• In the Fall, we will continue the work on High
Fidelity and Integrity Implementation looking at
other aspects

17. Thanks and Now, Please Move to
Your Break-out Room for the Fish
Bowl Debriefing
Special Thanks to:
The Team from
Oriole Park Elementary
Wyoming Public Schools