Self-reflection Exercise 1 – Think About
Think about each activity and put it into one of four categories, as shown in figure 1. Focus on the “Important & Urgent” first, and “Not important but Urgent” secondly.
The ICE Scoring Model
The ICE model helps the leaders and project teams decide which initiatives/areas of development to choose and put in the plans. It focuses on 3 features of the development ideas and helps prioritise and choose the things that will impact the future of the organisation/school most. Ultimately, this scoring system helps measure each initiative based on how well it affects the stakeholders (Appfire, 2023).
When you want to use this model, you should interpret and shape the meaning and common understandings of each feature with the colleagues involved in the development plan. Similarly, agree on the score values for the scale used in the evaluation. We suggest using the following scale:
[I]mpact – expected impact
1: no impact on the goal
2-5: minimal impact on the goal
6-8: clear impact on the goal
9-10: significant impact on the goal
[C]onfidence – estimated probability of success
1-3: high risk level, lots of unknown factors
4-7: medium risk level, we have information on several important factors, but details of implementation are unclear
8-10: low risk level, we have a lot of feedback and other data for appropriate implementation
[E]ase – difficulty of implementation (time, effort, budget, people involved, people affected)
1-2: very hard to implement, too many people have to be involved, very costly and so on
3-5: medium hard
6-7: medium easy, the barriers and resistance are manageable
8-10: the stakeholders highly committed to do it
In the Hungarian student-led pilot of the Institutional inclusiveness self-assessment, students used the ICE model to set the priorities after completing the tool and carrying out a one-to-one interview with the head of the institution, the head of the student support teachers, a teacher as well as conducted a focus group interview.