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Below we provide an overview of each step and then discuss how these four steps can and
should come together to promote coordination.
Step 1: Planning and Decision Making
For both evaluation and monitoring (typically focused on ensuring that the goals associated with
program funding or administrative or legislative mandates are being achieved) and for
professional development (typically tied to raising program quality by enhancing teacher
performance), the initial step involves planning and decision making.
Planning and decision making require review of all the component elements that must be
considered if the initiative is to be successfully implemented. Purpose and goals should be
clearly articulated and used to guide the decision-making process. Careful determination of how
data will be collected and managed is essential to ensuring that initial decisions are tracked and
evaluated in ways that will effectively inform later planning, implementation, and coordination
decisions.
Step 2: Infrastructure Development
Once key decisions have been made, capacity needs to be built to reach program goals.
Infrastructure development includes: building a workforce with the training and experience
required to perform CLASS classroom observations and to deliver effective teacher-child
interaction-focused professional development; obtaining or creating resources and tools to
facilitate teacher-child interaction-focused professional development; building data collection
and management systems; and creating systems for coordinating and overseeing the
implementation of these various elements.
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