Aligning Beliefs

and Practice with

Research
By Hope Shields
What is your favorite cereal?
 Step 1

The Plan Instructional

Walks
Step 2
Step 5 Belief
Inventories
Gains

Step 3
Research
Step 4 Show and Tell
Strategic
Alignment
Instructional Walks
Define Instructional Walks to staff

Identify patterns in the school overall

Outline school-wide strengths and weaknesses

Share data with staff

Collaborate faculty wide to target

meaningful areas of improvement

(Routman, 2014)
 Self Evaluation Poll

Research

Practice Beliefs

Belief Inventories
Belief Inventory Example

Belief Inventories will be filled out by This information will be used to drive the
teachers to identify core ideologies of each alignment of belief and practice with
individual. research and evidence.

(Longfield, 2015)
Research Show and Tell
Create teacher cohorts by grouping
together Showers and Tellers.

Provide PLC’s to present research on the

identified target area(s) of improvement to the
Tellers.

Provide Tellers with resources and training to

implement the research based practice(s)

Gather student improvement data from

the Tellers and provide PLC’s for the
Showers to analyze
Present the research and resources to the
Showers for implementation

(How to Get Stakeholder Buy-in for

User Research: 31 Expert Tips |
UserZoom, 2019
Strategic
Alignment

Once the target areas have been

“A strategic alignment model is a tool
identified through a collaborative effort
used to create a visual of how priorities are
with the staff a strategic alignment model
linked.”
will be created to ensure our short term
steps are aligned with long term goals.

(Center for Management and

Organization Effectiveness, 2023)
 Quick Wins

Teacher Celebration Visibility

Support Culture Collaborative Climate

Long Term Gains

In collaboration with all faculty we can identify

and address areas of strength and weakness in
school wide instruction and improve student
success and performance overall.

We can maintain teacher buy-in for

professional development and create staff stay
abreast of evidence based instructional
practices.
 The following are steps we need to take within
the next few days to start executing the plan:

Identify leadership team members who

will complete instructional walks

First Steps Create or acquire a common documents for;

immediate teacher feedback, teacher
celebrations, and reporting the data from
instructional walks
Determine mode of communication to
define instructional walks to faculty.
Professional Development
Practice-related professional
developments will be determined once
faculty identifies the target area(s)
Professional Development on how to find,
analyze, and understand valid educational
research will be provided prior to or within the
Research Show and Tell phase.
 Ongoing Support
I intend to continue support with this initiative by:

Staying involved Providing Distributing Motivating

Conduct instructional walks, guidelines, guidance, what to definitions of new terms and a culture of celebration,
regular collaboration with the look for, professional concepts to faculty, and collaboration, and professional
leadership development, and data analysis communication with parents and growth
stakeholders about initiatives
In conclusion….

The single greatest effect on student

achievement is not race, it is not poverty- it is
the effectiveness of the teacher.

-Harry Wong
 References
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https://www.userzoom.com/ux-blog/how-to-get-stakeholder-buy-in-for-user-research/

Longfield, J. (2013). Teaching-Learning Beliefs Inventory [Review of Teaching-Learning Beliefs Inventory]. Digital Commons Georgia

Southern. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1057&context=teaching-academy

Routman, R. (2014). Read, Write, Lead. ASCD.

Strategic Alignment. (2023). CMOE. https://cmoe.com/glossary/strategic-alignment/

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