What’s Your Definition of Quality?

1. What’s Your Definition of Quality? Every organization needs to understand what quality is and what it isn’t.

5. What is a Quality Teacher?

6. Why Quality and Continuous Improvement? • Answer: To align 33 schools and get everyone on the same page

7. Why This, Why Now? • Mission: To develop world-class learners and responsible citizens • Core Value: Data Driven Decisions • Goal: Improve all student performance, enhance social, emotional & behavioral development

8. Random Acts of Improvement Aim of the Organization Goals and Measures Aligned Acts of Improvement Aim of the Organization Goals and Measures

9. Aligned Acts of Improvement School Improvement Plan = Programs and processes GOALS

10. Performance Excellenceat all levels

11. Alignment: The Starting Point GOALS GOALS vs. This This

12. It’s About Alignment! Getting everyone to pull the same direction.

13. Why Quality and Continuous Improvement? • Answer: To speak the same language, to set and communicate direction

14. The 4 Quality Levels

15. Why Quality and Continuous Improvement? • Answer: It’s Research Based!

17. The Continuous Improvement Classroom • Creating the spirit and substance of continuous improvement in the classroom • How do we create the environment? • What does it look like, sound like and feel like? • PowerPoint- Intro to the Continuous Improvement Classroom

19. Self Assessment - Radar Diagram • A radar diagram provides a visual display of performance in various categories. • See (Supplement #3) “Radar Diagram” for step by step directions • Complete the “Self Assessment Radar Diagram” (Supplement #4) • What is your current level of knowledge of continuous improvement process and tools?

20. Plan Continuous Improvement Define the System Standardize Improvement ACT Assess Current Situation PLAN STUDY Study the Results DO Analyze Causes Try Out Improvement Theory

24. Let’s Get Started!

25. Affinity Diagrams

27. Affinity Diagram

28. Plan Continuous Improvement Define the System Standardize Improvement ACT Assess Current Situation PLAN STUDY Study the Results DO Analyze Causes Try Out Improvement Theory

30. Why This, Why Now? • Mission: To develop world-class learners and responsible citizens • Core Value: Data Driven Decisions • Goal: Improve all student performance, enhance social, emotional & behavioral development

31. A framework for continuous improvement

33. Lotus Diagram

34. What’s Been Done… • “Navigating change in uncertain times” concept (Michael Fullan) • L to J (Lee Jenkins) • Contemporary School Leadership • An overview of the Baldrige framework • Action Research and quality tools and processes (Susan Leddick) • Groups: Beginners, Continuing, Pioneers…

35. Building … • Continue Action Research teams • Utilize quality tools and the PDSA process for data driven decisions • Continue to align student, classroom, school and District actions • Connect all employees to CSIPs and the District strategic plan • Continue driving toward student ownership and accountability for learning