Step By Step Process to Creating a Systemic Initiative in Literacy and Mathematics

1. Step By Step Process to Creating a Systemic Initiative in Literacy and Mathematics
1. Ensure that the school district’s strategic plan focuses on student performance and
achievement, it drives everything else including the teaching learning process and
the districts curriculum and instruction focus
2. Study disaggregated data on your students and their needs
3. Study the research
4. Identify school districts that are getting systemic gains in student achievement and
are highly recommended
5. Put in place leadership to help you through the process as well as the
implementation stages
6. Secure board and leadership buy-in on the rationale for the journey
7. Pull a team together to travel to the 2-3 top school districts who are getting systemic
growth and achievement and study them
8. Identify companies and products that can systematically meet your needs
9. Form a team of teachers/administrators/parents to hear presentations of companies
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