Measuring Implementation Readiness in Pre-K to 2nd Grade
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With a new grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the University of Michigan’s Education Policy Initiative (EPI) and partners will create a new tool to measure key factors that make a school or early childhood center successful in implementing a curriculum in the early grades.
The project, "Measuring Implementation Readiness in Pre-K to 2nd Grade," will provide baseline measures to understand in what areas a school may need additional supports. Led by Weiland, the project brings together a multifaceted team of researchers from the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy and the Marsal Family School of Education, Northwestern University, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Stand for Children, and MDRC. The project will begin with an extensive literature review to identify critical factors that impact the ability of educational partners to implement high-quality curricula, such as teacher education and training, coaching, and prior curricula implementation experience. The team will also analyze readiness measures and assessment tools already integrated in exemplar sites, conduct site visits, and interview teachers about their experience implementing new curriculum. These insights will inform the development of the readiness tool tailored for early childhood educators.
