ULEAD: Reports

Innovative Practice Reports

Utah Leading through Effective, Actionable, and Dynamic (ULEAD) Education Innovative Practice Reports are defined in H.B. 437 Education Research and Innovation Amendments (Utah State Legislature).

In an innovative practice report, a participating institution shall:

1. include or reference a review of research regarding the practice in which the subject LEA has demonstrated success;
2. identify through academically acceptable, evidence-based research methods the causes of the LEA's successful practice;
3. identify opportunities for LEAs to adopt or customize innovative or best practices;
4. address limitations to successful replication or adaptation of the successful practice
   by other LEAs, which may include barriers arising from federal or state law, state or LEA policy, socioeconomic conditions, or funding limitations;
5. include practical templates for successful replication and adaptation of successful practices, following criteria established by the director;
6. identify experts in the successful practice that is the subject of the innovative practice report, including teachers or administrators at the subject LEA; and
7. include:
   1. an executive summary describing the innovative practice report; and 137         
   2. a video component or other elements designed to ensure that an innovative practice report is readily understandable by practitioners.