Implementation Strategies In Schools: What We Have Learned From Teachers

There have been recent calls for more multi-directional knowledge exchange involving active collaboration and partnership between researchers and the community stakeholders they are trying to assist at all stages of the research to practice transfer process (Addis, 2002; Beutler, Williams, Wakefield, & Entwistle, 1995; Wells & Miranda, 2006). Yet, there have been few examples of how to elicit information from stakeholders and utilize findings to improve implementation. We will present an example of adaptation of an evidence-based intervention for use in school settings in which teacher input was used to guide researchers in adaptation studies and procedures.