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The Concerns-Based Adoption Model and Strategic Plan Evaluation: Multiple Methodologies to Understand Complex Change
Olson, Kate; Lannan, Katie; Cumming, John; MacGillivary, Heather; Richards, Kevin
Educational Research: Theory and Practice, v31 n3 p49-58 2020
Many school districts utilize a strategic plan to implement their district vision to accomplish goals important to their students, stakeholders, and community at-large. Often, however, school districts use student outcome data as the main success indicator of their strategic plan. This summative approach fails to capture interim successes, cannot inform ongoing implementation and midcourse corrections, and fails to identify the nuances and challenges inherent in complex change processes. This paper uses the Concerns-Based Adoption Model, collecting survey and qualitative interview data, to inform the implementation of a school district's strategic plan. The Concerns-Based Adoption Model offers multiple methods to inform ongoing implementation instead of sole reliance on student outcome, culture, or climate data.
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, School Districts, Program Implementation, Suburban Schools, Models, Questionnaires, Interviews, Administrators, Teachers, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods
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Language: English
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