Victoria Armstrong

This plenary panel will discuss strategies for building implementation literacy and building an implementation culture to promote effective implementation of evidence-based practices. The panel will highlight examples from the The Oldham Research School, UK, Shotton Hall Research School, Dinuba Unified School District, USA, and Salem-Kaiser School District, USA, and other schools in the Education Endowment Foundation Research School Network.

This session will describe how one district used implementation science to implement a research based health and safety plan during the COVID-19 pandemic. Districts can expect to learn how Dinuba used readiness assessments to determine implementation capacity, designed professional learning structures to increase staff skill and knowledge, and implementation teams to successfully reopen schools for in-person learning.