Action plans have numerous practices that need to be implemented. Here’s a useful collaborative strategy for prioritizing implementation.
I’ve used this with different schools including Canadian Academy in Kobe when I was working with Stephen Taylor and the CA faculty to implement creative inquiry.
The Purpose of this Strategy
The visualization of priorities using a Target Board helps group members to
- Understand how program facets are interrelated
- Dialog on the most needful to the least urgent goals
- Discuss and decide on the progression of implementation points
Hopefully as the group collaboratively create the target board, the conversations reveal the time continuum supporting the implementation action plan.
How to use the target board
The target board can be used on its own for a sorting activity. Simply, it can guide ways to use time and urgency to justify when to do certain things.
When used with an Adaptive Schools protocol such as “Here’s What, So What, Now What” the Target Board can be a tool for understanding the purposeful work that organizes both time and tasks for implementation.
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Featured Photo credit: Target Board by MaxPixel CC Public Domain
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Thank you for the post. It was nice to see the shout out to CA! I am teaching at Hiroshima International School, but my kids have been to CA for Model UN and have friends there. I can see how the target board could funnel discussion and energy.
Hi Marybeth, Thanks for stopping by and for your comment. I enjoyed working with CA and seeing the energy that people put into co-creating thoughtful implementation of the IB. I hope your school year is closing with grace and celebration!
~Aloha