Your HSIP: Implementation Made Easy

1. Your HSIP: Implementation Made Easy Facilitated by Dave Lohrmann and Jim O’Neil (aka Data Man)

2. By the end of this session, learners will be able to: • Distinguish realistic session titles from those that are totally disconnected from reality • Appreciate that most things in life worth achieving usually require (lots of) effort • Select implementation strategies that can make the work easier

3. Prioritize • Guidance—CSHP Characteristics • Michiana Team = Characteristics 1&2 • SHAC = Characteristics 3-11 • Guidance—Indicators/Issues • HSRC color codes • Substantiated student and staff problems • Decision makers’ agenda

4. Prioritize • District/Corporation already must do • Laws and mandates • Someone assigned responsibility • Resources available • Pattern (Characteristics 3-11) • Distribute among sub-groups • Phase in over time (color codes)

5. Organize/Delineate* • Michiana Team (focus on 1 & 2) • Management/oversight role • Advocate, recruit, coach, facilitate, ask! • School Health Advisory Council • Sub-groups by characteristic • Responsible school employees • Broad representation • Mavens, connectors, salespersons • School Health Team • Mandated, required, sensible • Day-to-day “doers” The Kids *All involved in preparing HSIP

6. Systems and Records • Never do something just once, use initial effort to initiate a system that will be ongoing • Communication, procedures, reports • Logo • Forms and processes • “Shells” to “fill in the blank” • Data/record keeping • Portfolio • Excel files • Automated downloads

7. Share the

8. In-Kind Resources—People* • Skills • Planners • Communicators • Grant writers • “Techies” • Time • “Professional volunteers” • Employer released time • Interests • Expertise • Passionate about/Want to change * Don’t forget ACS volunteers

9. One good “go to” support staff member (paid or volunteer) who knows how to set up and manage systems and processes to serve as the hub.

10. In-Kind--Resources • Meeting space (non-school system) • Materials • Copies • Paper • Other • Money—community donations • Other

11. Students • SHAC members • Service clubs • Internships • Classes • Math (for stats) • Computer/technology • Photography/media • Journalism

12. Seldom, if ever, “reinvent a wheel”

13. Wheel Sources • Policies • National Association of State Boards of Education • National School Boards Association • Policies and Programs (research-based, proven) • CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health (lots of links) and state counterpart • US Department of Education and state counterpart • US Department of Justice and state counterpart • US Department of Agriculture and state counterpart • ASCD and state affiiliates • Professional associations—national and state • Ideas • All of the above • Peers in Michiana, other school systems

14. Periodically Assess Progress Achieve HSIP Goals and Objectives Focus on Planned Activities Act Adjust as needed What supports our progress? What impedes our progress? What should we publicize? What should we celebrate?

15. By the end of this session, learners will be able to: • Distinguish realistic session titles from those that are totally disconnected from reality • Appreciate that most things in life worth having usually require (lots of) effort • Select implementation strategies that can make the work easier

16. Discussion • Which of these suggestions will your team use? When? • Where can you go within your school system and community to get assistance with all this. • Who are the primary connectors? • Who sees the WIIFM? • Who cares a lot about kids?