New Principals Institute: Advancing School Mental Health, Session 5: Implementation Considerations – Planning for Change

This session helps building administrators make concrete plans to enact the system changes discussed in previous sessions, including how to best utilize planned professional development sessions, staff meetings, and in vivo coaching to improve capacity and maintain fidelity. Participants learn how to coach mental health staff to shift practice to promote desired changes and how entry criteria for IEP counseling services must be developed so counseling staff are not overly assigned pull-out services that would keep them from implementation work.