Research also confirms that highly effective schools achieve deep implementation with a plan that includes:

• Building educators’ knowledge and skills
• Coaching educators so they are successful doing what they have learned
• Regularly checking classroom practices for fidelity of implementation
• Monitoring to make sure students are achieving as a result

The deeper the level of implementation as measured through monitoring rubrics, the greater the impact on student achievement in high- and low-performing schools. This is the effect of deep implementation, which is only achieved by closing the knowing/doing gap.

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