Step 4. Implement Your Plans

Implementing strong plans requires ensuring alignment with all of the key stakeholders and regularly checking in on plan implementation.

• Implement your plans
  • Do you have regular touchpoints with all the relevant stakeholders?
  • Do you have ways to monitor progress?
  • Do you have plans in place for unforeseen challenges?
• Collect data to inform future improvement efforts
• Have you involved youth in survey design? It is a great way to get to know what matters most to them.
• Do you have a way to track which students receive which services and how frequently?
• Have you established your pre and post assessment tools?
• Have you established your tools for daily, weekly, biweekly and monthly data collection?
  • In general, student attendance and engagement can be measured daily
  • Student mindsets and skills can be measured using formative and summative assessments.
  • Staff capacity and mindsets can be measured using formative and summative assessments.
• Other Additional Resources (non-U.S. Department of Education)
• "Putting Data to Work for Young People" by RAND corporation is a step by step plan for collecting, analyzing and managing data to improve decision making.
• Are you ready to assess social and emotional learning? A Resource from AIR.
• The Harvard Family Research Project compiled a resource to summarize a few different ways to collect data in Out of School Time Evaluations.