Implementation and Evaluation: Bringing the Plan to Life

Abstract

Guardado and Light elaborate a plan for program-wide curriculum implementation including tools, which can facilitate such a process with teachers, administrators, academic partners, and students. Furthermore, in line with the original model of curriculum development that illustrates monitoring of the curriculum as an ongoing process, this chapter outlines an approach for monitoring both the curriculum implementation launch, as well as the realization of the lived curriculum. The authors provide a considered discussion of several options for implementation (e.g., phased rollout, multiple levels at once), rollout timing, and the numerous potential implications of each of these options. Finally, suggestions for how to manage anxiety and other challenges around change, as well as potential ways of leveraging this energy to strengthen the process, are addressed.