Helping Educational Leadership Mobilize Evidence (HELM)

University of Washington

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior, Child

Treatments: Behavioral: Implementation Attention Control (IAC); Behavioral: HELM

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06340074

STUDY00010282

Details and patient eligibility

About

Many universal, evidence-based prevention practices (EBPPs) have been developed to prevent SEB problems, typically in elementary schools, but progress toward widespread implementation has been slow and few efforts have been made to develop and test interventions to enhance EBPP implementation in schools. Schools leaders (e.g., principals) are key to decision making and implementation of EBPPs, and their leadership has been shown to be consistently linked to student outcomes through their intentional efforts to support teacher adoption and use of innovative programs. Helping Educational Leaders Mobilize (HELM) Evidence is a pragmatic, multifaceted, organizationally-focused implementation strategy targeting the implementation leadership and implementation climate of school buildings (through principals) to enhance the adoption and delivery of EBPPs in elementary schools. This pilot study, part of the larger HELM project to adapt and test the strategy based on an existing leadership intervention, Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI), will be implemented in the context of Positive Greetings at the Door (PGD), a universal school-based EBPP previously demonstrated to reduce disruptive behavior and increase academic engagement.

Enrollment: 333 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a K-5th elementary school
• Being a K-5th principal or assistant principal at an elementary school
• Being a K-5th grade teacher, paraeducator, or specialist (e.g., reading) at an elementary school, and not a teacher in a special education-only classroom

Exclusion criteria

• School building or teacher that is currently implementing PGD

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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333 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

HELM

Experimental group

Description:

Behavioral: HELM HELM is a 9-month, data-driven organizational and leadership implementation strategy.

Treatment:

Behavioral: HELM

Implementation Attention Control (IAC)

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Behavioral: Implementation Attention Control (IAC) Schools assigned to the IAC condition received an online, self-paced, independent studies program broadly focused on leadership and management.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Implementation Attention Control (IAC)