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Leader Excellence Academy. Leader Excellence Academy. How do you lead people? How do you manage a performance-based, continuous improvement program?. Leader Excellence Academy. How do you get better each year at serving adult learners? It is all about Program Improvement.
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Leader Excellence Academy • How do you lead people? • How do you manage a performance-based, continuous improvement program?
Leader Excellence Academy • How do you get better each year at serving adult learners? • It is all about Program Improvement
Year 1:How Do I Figure Out What to Improve? 1. Stakeholder assessments adapted to fit your program • Program self assessments • Program manager self assessments • Teacher self assessments • Stakeholder/partner assessments • Student assessments • Focus groups • Surveys
Year 1How Do I Figure Out What to Improve? • What does Research tell us? • Research on adult teaching and learning • Synthesized to research briefs with • Findings • Implications • applications
Year 1How Do I Figure Out What to Improve? • What does Data tell us? • New approach to data mining • Red Flag Chart • Identify Problem areas • Possible causes • Probing questions for staff to narrow causes • Strategies for addressing • Pilot testing
Year 2How do I fix it? • Student Persistence Strategies • Management vs. Leadership (Online Course) • Getting Teachers Off to a Good Start
Each Module • Face-to-Face Workshop • Interim activity • Involve local staff • Learning project • Web meeting across state lines to share results
Culminating Activity • A Program Improvement Project • Identify a program component that needs to be fixed • Engage the staff in clarifying and focusing the problem and possible solution • Pilot test it • Go to Scale