Installation Phase

Goal 1: Establish an Implementation Team

The Implementation Teams are responsible for establishing a supportive planning and operating environment, facilitating the implementation process, building communication and feedback loops, preparing facilitators, and developing site plans and communication plans for putting Too Good programs in place.  Implementation Teams typically consist of three or more full-time professionals who understand the Too Good programs, prevention education, fidelity of implementation, and organization change. 

Your Implementation Team should include a member of the administrative staff who can authorize preparations and necessary tasks and changes at the site level for Too Good program installation.  The lead person of the Implementation Team will function as the Implementation Coordinator.

Implementation Coordinator

The Implementation Coordinator, IC, manages the day-to-day activities of the Implementation Team and will serve as its primary contact.  The IC will serve as the nexus for your implementation’s Too Good lesson facilitators, Too Good trainers, the Mendez Foundation, and your funder.  This person should have a working knowledge of the concepts of fidelity of implementation and program dosage.  The IC must be trained in the selected Too Good curricula and Too Good implementation to work collaboratively over time with the Mendez Foundation and lesson facilitators to support implementation fully and with fidelity.  The IC will be tasked with addressing any necessary adaptations with the Mendez Foundation.  The IC will work with the designated professional, usually from the funding source, for a Quality Assurance Review if your program plan requires it.

Implementation Team

Your Implementation Team should include people ready to support the IC and coordinate the following tasks:

• Identify structural and functional changes necessary for the program to be installed. These changes could include hiring lesson facilitators if your school is not using existing classroom teachers, identifying and securing classroom space, and staff allocation.
• Monitor progress, expenditures, performance, and other reporting required by your funding source.
• Develop communication protocols including staff orientation meetings, staff meetings, ongoing buy-in and updates with key stakeholders, and other regular messaging systems.
• Coordinate Too Good Curriculum Training for lesson facilitators.
• Provide ongoing fidelity of implementation coaching and support.
• Facilitate data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Lesson delivery monitoring
• Sustainability planning

Goal 1 Activities:

• Identify an administrator necessary to support preparations, organizational changes, and the appointment of Implementation Team members.
• Assign or hire an Implementation Coordinator.
• Coordinate Too Good Implementation Training for the IC.
• Assign or hire additional Implementation Team members.
• Hold an orientation meeting for the Implementation Team to discuss commitment to roles, responsibilities, and tasks for program installation and implementation.

Goal 2: Prepare Site Infrastructure for Implementation

At this stage, your site has determined that Too Good is a program fit for your student needs and that your site has the feasibility to implement Too Good.  Your Implementation Team now needs to put the necessary changes in place for success.

Goal 2 Activities:

• Determine the quarter in the school calendar you will begin full lesson delivery. Scheduling student pre- and post outcome evaluations will occur at this stage as well.
• Elect or hire Too Good facilitators.
• Coordinate Too Good curriculum training for facilitators.
• Ensure classroom space and necessary equipment are available.
• Distribute program kits, materials, and evaluation tools.

Goal 3: Develop Communication Protocols

Clear and free-flowing communication between the Implementation Team, site staff and facilitators, funders, and other key stakeholders is essential for maintaining buy-in and to quickly solve problems and determine if adjustments to your implementation management support system are necessary.  Keeping key stakeholders informed of the implementation progress and critical changes to the implementation plan will keep your implementation on track and on time to help you maximize performance and outcomes.

Goal 3 Activities:

• Identify audiences who need to understand, support, and receive ongoing buy-in and updates throughout implementation.
• Determine the messages, materials, and formats appropriate to each audience.
• Identify potential implementation challenges like  resistance to change, inertia, inappropriate program adaptations, and staff turn-over and your team’s “best practices” response to these challenges. Be prepared to detect these barriers as early as possible to maintain the quality of your implementation.
• Prepare meeting schedules for the Implementation Team, administration or other key stakeholders, and lesson facilitators.
• Establish ongoing coaching, technical assistance, and feedback practices for your Too Good lesson facilitators.

Goal 4: Develop Data Systems, Evaluation, and Monitoring

Data systems for monitoring and evaluating lesson delivery, program fidelity, and student outcomes must be in place before the students receive the first Too Good lesson.

Goal 4 Activities:

• Establish a data system to collect, monitor, and report fidelity and student outcomes.
• Conduct training to ensure proper use of fidelity and outcome evaluation tools.

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