Table 2 Exemplar quotes by adopter types

Active non-adopter

• They want us to push this WISE and we don’t have time for WISE and [TSG] … All that stuff and they just insist that we do WISE WISE WISE. It’s something come before WISE, and you get mad if we don’t have this paperwork together. But you want us to stop what we doing to do some WISE

• You have to get WISE in and you have to get this in. And then people coming in to observe you [facilitation]. It’s like the magnifying glass is on you. You know…and then they are going to find something wrong. You not doing this the right way

• They (leadership) always be coming in with all this stuff we were gonna have to do…I felt like if this is not your class. You just go on, you just come and do whatever, and it was just overwhelming to me

Passive non-adopter

• Well we don’t, well I don’t really you know ask them if you’re full or are you hungry. They will just let us know you know if they you know want more…I just go with them. I don’t really say are you full or are you still hungry or whatever. They just usually let us know

• “I did, she [facilitator] gave me some handouts. I have them up there when my WISE little thing… I have looked at some of them.”

• Being the only teacher in here…Explaining and all that kind of fell on me to do the whole thing…

Over-adapting adopter

• [For Windy] You don’t even really have to have a little voice…That’s why I don’t do it, I don’t bring it out right at the beginning. I sit here for a few minutes just to see who’s gonna start, and then I say, “well, let me see…” And then I look, just kinda be looking…. And one little boy, he don’t hardly wanna try nothing. But then when I got up and go that, and “woo, I’ll taste mine!” Yes. To make sure we gonna get everybody into it, we gonna try Windy. And Windy kinda works. Before you know it, everybody eating

• I was very pleased with how they [facilitators] would come out to the center and talk with me to see if there was anything that I needed, and went to the classrooms to check on the teachers to see how things were going, was there anything that they could bring in, I mean I just could not believe how they just tagged onto us like we was just a part of you all’s entire program!

• Probably about the hardest thing is like, one, a couple of times we didn’t get the WISE food…. when the kids get used to but we have to skip one, then we have to tell them why. So that’s about the hardest thing

Enthusiastic adopter

• “I mean it’s been, it’s been great. I mean the kids enjoy it, and the teacher’s enjoy it, and actually they learn a lot about the different size, different color…how it grows, where it comes from, from a tree, from a garden. They, it’s, I think it’s helping the kids out. They be talking about it. They go home and talk to their parents about it, which makes me happy.”

• And after we had that big meeting [champion led discussion] and I came back we tried that small group and we were like okay, yeah this is where it’s at… once we sat down and we tried the small groups it really worked out and it more calm, you know it was better and the kids were more one-on-one, and you could get them to try it

• She, (director) now she helps us plan, you know, make sure it’s planned… And she let’s us know ahead of time what we need. We know what day. And we make sure, she makes sure we got it on our lesson plan so the parents can be able to know what activity we give ‘em to work on that week