Updated Implementation Guide from the EEF

Using evidence is more likely to be successful if school leaders give attention to the processes and planning around to achieve change in practice.

Therefore the EEF published Putting evidence to work: A school’s guide to implementation.

This guidance has now been updated in May 2024.

The EEF resource includes a range of tools, posters and an online programme, to support schools in making sure new approaches or practices have the biggest possible impact on children and young people’s outcomes.

The updated guidance report is focused on three key elements:

1. The behaviours that drive effective implementation.
2. The contextual factors that facilitate implementation.
3. A structured, but flexible, process to enact implementation.

The guidance process is designed to support school leaders to do implementation, while the behaviours and contextual factors help to do it well.