The ESP Playbook Resources Library is a curated hub of tools, templates, and examples referenced throughout the ESP Playbook to guide users on adapting and implementing the Exemplary Student Pathways Change Model.
| Resource | Description |
| Conceptual Framework | |
| Overview of the ESP Model | This document provides a brief overview of the key concepts that act as the conceptual building blocks of the ESP Framework. |
| Laura Fingerson and David Troutman's (2019) Institutional Research Framework | This paper provides a description of a student success framework that can be used to examine student success metrics and how those metrics can and should be used for both external and internal purposes. |
| Alice McIntyre's (2014) Participatory Action Research | The book, Participatory Action Research (PAR), provides a history of this technique, its various strands, and the underlying tenets that guide most projects. |
| Resources for Building a Team and Selecting a Project Focus | |
| Institutional Insights Video - Building Teams | This video highlights the considerations and experiences of institutional leaders as they built ESP teams. |
| Higher Education Topics and Related Metrics | This document lists common topics in higher education on which ESP teams may focus their curricular redesign efforts and the corresponding metrics that teams can examine related to each topic. |
| Pre-Mortem Planning Exercise | This activity helps teams envision success while also anticipating challenges that may arise. |
| ESP Curricular Redesign Self-Assessment Rubric | The ESP Curricular Redesign Self-Assessment Rubric is designed as a assessment tool to be used throughout the project, at key moments from planning through implementation. |
| User Guidance for Curricular Redesign and Data Agency Self-Assessment Rubrics | This document provides guidance for using the Data Agency and Curricular Redesign Rubrics. |
| Institutional Insights Video - Curricular Redesign | This video highlights the way one university utilized the ESP model to redesign their English Developmental Education Curriculum and the successes they have experienced as a result. |
| Resources for Data Agency, Exploration and Discovery | |
| Data Agency Topics to Explore with the ESP team | This document highlights key topics related to data agency that the ESP team should familiarize themselves with and determine where more learning is needed. |
| ESP Data Agency Self-Assessment Rubric | The Data Agency Rubric is designed as a assessment tool to be used throughout the project, at key moments from planning through implementation. |
| User Guidance for Data Agency & Curricular Redesign Rubrics | This document provides guidance for using the Data Agency and Curricular Redesign Rubrics. |
| ESP Data Discovery Table | This is an editable table that helps ESP teams track the data they examine, document findings and additional data collection needs. |
| Institutional Insights Video - Building Data Agency | This video highlights the experience and wisdom of institutional leaders as they fostered data agency among the ESP team and others. |
| Resources for Action Planning | |
| ESP Action Plan Template | This fillable template helps ESP teams identify goals, considerations and document retrospection and prospection. |
| Sample 30-60-90 Day Action Plan | This is an Excel tool created by SOVA to help institutions track action plan progress in greater detail and in shorter timeframes than the overarching action plan. |
| Resources for Project Implementation | |
| Change Leadership Toolkit 2.0 | This Toolkit was developed by Susan Elrod, Adrianna Kezar, Ángel de Jesus González, Elizabeth Holcombe and the Pullias Center for Higher Education (2024) and serves as a guide for advancing systemic change in higher education. |
| Resources for Project Assessment | |
| ESP Impact Assessment Framework and Working Group Members | Framework Summary describing assessment levels and questions. |
| Institutional Insights Video - Impact of the ESP Project | This video showcases the ways in which one institution thought about and experienced the impact of the ESP project. |
| Resources for Institutionalizing the ESP Model | |
| ESP Institutionalization Framework | The institutionalization framework proposes eight categories in which groups can assess their readiness to institutionalize holistic, data-informed curricular redesign. |
| ESP Institutionalization - Current and Future State Mapping Worksheet | This is a worksheet for ESP teams to reflect on the current and ideal future state of institutionalization of the ESP model. |
| Artifacts and Examples | |
| UT System ESP Project Profiles | This is a compilation of 22 project descriptions from across nine UT System institutions over the course of three years |
| ESP Project Profile Template | This is a template that ESP teams can use to document their work in a one-page presentation format. |
| ESP Symposium Agenda February 2025 | This program is from a joint convening of the UT System ESP and DECCB initiative in February of 2025. |
| Conexion - An ESP-Aligned Professional Development Model | This is an example of a Professional Learning Program at UT Rio Grande Valley that is cited in the ESP Playbook. |
