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Professional Development to Practice

Steps to Ensuring Fidelity of
Implementation (continued)
Include principals in training with emphasis on what the
program looks like in practice so they can provide
effective and ongoing monitoring and feedback.
Develop a plan for monitoring implementation that
includes data collection, observation of the program as
implemented, analysis of the data, and planning for ways
to address off-target implementation or “poor-fidelity
drift.”
Use the fidelity data to identify possible reasons for
programs not performing as expected.
Adapted from “Monitoring Fidelity of Implementation, Center on Innovation and Improvement,” n.d.