Change is Hard, Personal and Emotional - Using Implementation Science Makes it Easier!

Jenice Pizzuto

For decades, we have known ‘what’ to do in education. Yet, we face an implementation gap that prevents our most effective strategies and resources from reaching students and being utilized in a way that leads to lasting enhancements in education.

The madness of the adopt-and-abandon cycle persists, and it is costly. Not only does it exhaust our human and capital resources, but the most compelling issue is that it keeps evidence-based practices from reaching students.

Join implementation science expert and author of "Implement with IMPACT", Jenice Pizzuto, to learn about the difference between ‘implementation’ and implementation science and why, as leaders, you should know and care about the difference as you fund and lead change efforts. Jenice will provide authentic examples from recent successful change efforts, including implementation and outcome data. Participants will receive tools for immediate use in their districts.

Utilizing deliberately developmental implementation with your implementation team increases your learning organization’s ability to navigate the most critical variables impacting sustainable change and realized outcomes; that is, implementation. Pizzuto, Carney 2024

Participants will understand:

• the difference between wicked problems and critical problems
• why change is hard
• the high cost of non-implementation
• implementation frameworks and teams serve as a conduit to scale evidence-based practices