Below is an excerpt from this report. The complete report can be downloaded from the bottom of this page.
A Forest for Every Classroom:
A Report on Research into
Program Replication and Dissemination Practices
Prepared by Sharon Plumb and Amy Powers, PEER Associates, Inc.
May 8, 2006
Replication Research Overview
This report is intended to stimulate thinking and provide concrete replication models to FFEC partners. Taking the program beyond its current scope will require significant strategizing, staffing, flexibility, and financial resources. Because every program is unique there is no one “right” answer for how to replicate a program. This report provides FFEC a context for thinking about its future, and how to bring valuable elements of its program to a wider audience.
This report provides FFEC with an overview of environmental education and/or youth enrichment programs that have multiple sites across the country. Methods and tools that these programs have used to replicate are outlined as replication strategies. Because this research was limited to looking at a few program models, we have not attempted to classify whether one strategy may or may not be better than another.
The report also considers what these strategies could mean for FFEC’s own replication efforts. Replication elements that are most pertinent to FFEC are highlighted and discussed as FFEC replication considerations. This section includes a list of questions that FFEC staff may wish to use in developing a replication plan, as well as a list of potential tools FFEC may find helpful throughout the replication process.
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