Reallocation for Sustainability

Thinking Differently:

Sustaining Change Means Readjusting

Reallocation for Sustainability

Thinking Differently:

Sustaining Change Means Readjusting

This step, in a word, is Money.

This is the important place we will help you carefully examine the re-allocation of resources, functions, and responsibilities across your EPP, ensuring that the program is sustainable and the transformed model is fully realized.

Thinking Differently

Let’s take a moment to appreciate all that you have accomplished so far in scaling your high quality educator preparation program. Up to this point you have committed to scale, determined the various components needed to scale, and have decided on the method that works for your context. Those are no small decisions and there has undoubtedly been many conversations and commitments your team has engaged in to get to this point in the process. Congratulations! Each of these conversations moves you and your teams further along the path to scale your high quality educator preparation program. 


As you have already seen in the process of transformation, there is a very real reality regarding the financial cost of transformation towards higher quality.


Let’s be clear and honest: Sustainable high-quality teacher preparation will necessitate thinking differently about your program’s structures, teams, and allocation of funding as it currently exists. Things, people, and processes will need to change in order to implement a high-quality, sustainable, program at scale.

Considerations for Reallocation

Faculty Roster and Organizational Chart

  • Who is currently responsible for selecting mentor teachers? 
  • Who is currently responsible for identifying and selecting supervisors? 
  • What will your faculty roster and organizational chart look like at each phase of the transformation?
  • How will you norm and communicate on responsibilities and functions that have been reduced, dissolved, and/or re-focused?


Budget

  • How will your budget match your re-prioritization towards emphasizing the clinical experience and transformed model? 

Other Initiatives and Programs

  • Is each initiative/program focused on capacity-building of all faculty and committed to ensuring equitable access by all candidates? 
  • Who has the foundational skills to be a site coordinator? 


Reward Structures

  • How is transformation/coherence to the transformed model of teacher preparation being incentivized and/or rewarded? 
  • What structures exist or need to exist?

In the self-assessment below you will have an opportunity to record who, from your program stakeholders, is involved in implementing the 14 components of a high quality program.

You will then be able to identify the portion of your budget that is currently allotted to that role.

Now that you’ve completed the assessment, take a look back at both the roles and budgets.

What stands out to you? Are the roles and budgets aligned to your scale priorities?

What needs to be reallocated and who needs to be involved?


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Considering the Site Coordinator

Change is hard. Change is necessary. Re-examining long standing programs, positions, and systems to think about new and different ways to operate is challenging, even nerve wracking. Yet as Socrates pointed out, “The secret of change is not to focus all of your energy on fighting the old, but on building the new.” We’re here now because change is truly needed. You’ve come this far to make a difference. Now, because of your willingness to do the uncomfortable work of reallocating, we have exciting news...you have made room for the most important component for making your program’s transformation complete - and sustainable...the linchpin to it all...The Site Coordinator. 


Step 5 introduces the indispensable Site Coordinator.

Pause and Process

Pause and Process

At the end of each section of the US PREP Scale Toolkit we will ask a few brief questions for you to consider on your journey. Once you have completed all the Pause and Process Sections, we will send you your answers via email so you can see your results.


We encourage you to keep your results and share them with your US PREP scaling partner.

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