What are policy adoption, planning, and gathering resources?
100
These are other ways to secure funds outside for the school budget.
What are grants and business partnerships?
100
Degree of preparedness, the provisions of resources and materials as well as on-going in-service.
What are several factors that assist with early implementation?
100
These are the three common implementation categories.
What are program related, people related, and setting relating problems?
100
One unpopular dynamic of policies deals with individual belief systems.
What is Professional Values?
200
These are some of the key stakeholders that must back a policy for it to be successful.
What are parents, social service agencies, unions, students, etc...?
200
Louis and Mile (1990) found that this is the major predictor of success on a project.
What is the presence of someone who assumes major responsibility for the project?
200
In this policy change, leaders agree to downsize the magnitude of required policy change.
What is midgetizing?
200
These are the two approaches that exist in solving implementation problems.
What are:
1. Consider problems as unwelcome intruders and inconveniences and refuse to address
2. See the problem as a normal part of the process
200
A course of action to resist policy implementation by failing to conform.
What is disloyalty?
300
Asking yourself if a policy has sufficient support among key stakeholders is an important part of this mobilization step.
What is adopting a new policy?
300
Money, time, personnel, space, equipment, and materials.
What are the resources needed for implementation?
300
By doing this, leaders stay well informed of the course of the project, are visible at sites, and provide communication on implementation.
What is Monitoring and Feedback?
300
Weak coordination, delays, conflicts, lack of planning and contradictory goals are examples of this category problem.
What is program related problems?
300
The act of following through with policy implementation.
What is compliance?
400
This process avoids under and over planning by having a plan for the first crucial weeks in place, then being prepared to revise as experience suggests needed changes.
What is evolutionary planning?
400
Some educators deem this resoure to be "too trivial to talk about."
What is space?
400
This form of support involves carefully targeted, planned help during mobilization, early and late implementation, and completion.
What is on-going assistance?
400
This is usually the most effective approach to coping with implementation problems.
What is the technical approach?
400
The act salesmen may take to get someone to comply with purchasing their products.
What is persuasion?
500
Using this technique, the group develops a written scenario that describes what the policy will look like, writes practical questions about it, then develops a plan in outline form.
What is forward mapping?
500
A common cause of implementation failure.
What is the lack or unwise use of resources?
500
This term notes when the policy is no longer perceived as new or special.
What is Institutionalization?
500
Unresponsive target population, lack of skills, negative attitudes, resistance and skepticism are examples of this category problem.
What is people related problems?
500
One step a leader can take to help with very strong opponents.