HQIM for Indiana Reading League Presentation
Implementation of High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) is the work of the entire vertical spine of districts. From the superintendent to the classroom teacher, all stakeholders need a deep understanding of the implementation journey and the curriculum.
Presentation Overview
Janise Lane and Robin McClellan, prior district leaders in both a large urban district and a small rural district, implemented HQIM for the past five years. They will share transparently about their HQIM implementation journey. The audience will leave with a better understanding of:
- A shared vision for excellent literacy instruction.
- Change management: Expectations, Engagement, Investment, Integrity.
- Building the vertical spine of leadership.
- Building and sustaining momentum.
Additional Information
Attendees will hear about the journey of two district leaders as they lead the adoption of high quality instructional materials.
Janise and Robin will have a candid conversation about the successes experienced and challenges faced throughout the selection, adoption, and beginning stages of launching the use of HQIM.
Attendees will develop leader and participant insight into how to build buy-in and lead change, how to build the capacity of their teams, how to leverage teachers as leaders, how to navigate challenging situations, and how to celebrate successes in ways that continue to move the work forward. Attendees will leave with skills and knowledge that is highly practical, actionable, and applicable to their own work in schools.
Resources
Use the QR code to get more resources such as Amplify’s Rivet PLPG, The Elements, and Curriculum Matters materials.
Question Prompts
Coherence and alignment – principals, supervisors must read and understand at least samples of the curriculum so the teachers know they are invested and can give actionable feedback.
- 1. Tell us a little bit about your experience of bringing HQIM to your district.
- State of the union – scores.
- Tension in district between district leadership and school-based decision-making.
- 2. Could you give a high level overview of the process of what they did to adopt: Change management, trust, and investment
- Built a team
- Communication of urgency for change – materials not aligned with brain science
- Change management – why HQIM matters
- 3. How do you build buy-in and coherence?
- Brought together expert.
- Brought together internal team of many stakeholder.
- Invested deeply in learning.
- Edreports
- Duke
- 4. How do you leverage voice? Supporting leaders in strong implementation with systems of advocacy…
- Surveys – staff, community.
- Community visits.
- Transparent communication: heard this and did this.
- Celebrating growth in student work – pictures of what children before and after implementation along with quantitative – universal screening scores, etc.
- Teacher voice more publicly i.e. Twitter (Katie Scotti).
- Building capacity of teachers to become “lighthouses” – coaches also
- Knowledge Matters.
- 5. Advice – navigating problems of practice:
- Don’t underestimate the power of the people in the schools –
- Creating guardrail space – prioritize the most important 2 or 3 things that are major focus – come back.
- Spiraled professional learning – not just a name to fancy up a presentation or school improvement plan – it is the rubber meets the road.
- Coherence and alignment – principals, supervisors must read and understand at least samples of the curriculum so the teachers know they are invested and can give actionable feedback.
