Implementing PACE

To ensure the success and sustainability of your PACE initiative, continuous improvement practices are essential.  These include identifying the key outcomes of your PACE initiative, consistently monitoring implementation and measuring key outcomes, and making adjustments to implementation to improve outcomes.

The PACE initiative has created a number of tools to help continuously improve the program.

DSC Continuous Improvement Planning Template (Appendix G of the PACE Toolkit)

This template helps DSCs revise their CS Vision Statement and theory of change and monitor change practices in continuous improvement cycles.  It is broken into 3 parts:

• PART 1: Refining your district CS Vision Statement, Theory of Change, and Change Practices
  This part of the template is used to refine your district CS vision statement and theory of change for how you will achieve that vision including what changes need to happen to ensure your vision is realized.
• PART 2: Creating your Continuous Improvement Plan 
  This part of the template is used to plan how you will implement each change you’ve identified in your theory of change, as well as how you will monitor implementation of each change and measure outcomes.  There is also a meeting planner to help identify when the DSC should meet to review implementation and outcome data for improvements to practices.
• PART 3: Documenting Continuous Improvement Cycles
  This part of the template is used to document at each meeting what has been learned from the review of implementation and outcome data and record next steps.