Essential+Conditions

The Essential Conditions to Support Implementation Guide is designed to provide a template for schools to use in ensuring that initiatives are implemented with fidelity. This framework does not provide a specific approach to each implementation, but rather offers guiding questions to support implementations that intentionally addresses each of the seven essential conditions. Since we are discussing technology planning and implementation during this conference, limit your focus to those initiatives that require a technology component.

For this task at each table, choose one or two implementations coming up for the 2010-11 school year and identify the key activities you have in mind that will address each of the seven essential conditions. You can download the Microsoft Word document and use your own word processor or use this **online form** to document your responses. If you use the online form, keep two things in mind. The table cells will automatically expand based on the amount of text you enter and remember that you must export your responses to keep a copy of them.

These guiding questions may help in your discussions of the essential conditions:
 * 1) **Shared Vision** - How is the shared vision collaboratively developed and endorsed by shareholders?
 * 2) **Leadership** - How are leadership roles and responsibilities articulated?
 * 3) **Research and Evidence** - What data, including current research, evidence and lessons learned, is being collaboratively and systematically collected and analyzed?
 * 4) **Resources** - What human and material resources, budget, and infrastructure are required to support this change?
 * 5) **Teacher Professional Growth** - How is teacher professional growth evidenced in classrooms, schools and jurisdictions?
 * 6) **Time** - What strategies are in place to ensure that each stakeholder group has the time they need to successfully implement and sustain the change?
 * 7) **Community Engagement** - How are the diverse needs of stakeholders addressed to ensure community engagement?