Continuous Improvement Model for Schools: Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) (Cont.)

The Plan-Do-Study-Act procedure. Recognize an opportunity and plan a change. Do. Test the change. Carry out a small-scale study. Study. Review the test, analyze the results and identify what you’ve learned. Act. Take action based on what you learned in the study step: If the change did not work, go through the cycle again with […]

Continuous Improvement Model for Schools: Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA)

Plan, Do, Study, Act; continuous improvement. PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) refers to a four-step improvement cycle for organizing and managing change and continuous improvement. This cycle was developed by Dr. Walter Shewhart in the 1920s and put into business practice in Japan and the United States by W. Edwards Deming. (Embedded in the PDSA […]

Mastery learning in the classroom.

“Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.” – Robert Greene The creation and adoption of the new Common Core Standards has phases such as, “All children can learn,” and “Students should be able to demonstrate competent levels of achievement.” Discussing the new Common Core Standards with […]

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Mastery Learning, Now More Than Ever.

The adoption of the Common Core Standards has given schools a structured curriculum to teach and since each student must master those standards at each grade level. Mastery Learning is needed now more than ever.

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Commitment to Continuous Improvement.

Improvement efforts are sustained and the school demonstrates progress in improving student performance and school effectiveness.

Teaching and Learning, You Can’t Have One Without The Other.

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats A conversation I had one time with a teacher that, I assume, wanted to prove a point about student’s motivation to learn, proved a different point. This teacher, a high school science teacher, had just given a test […]

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Data Driven Districts: Documenting and using results.

A school system is successful using data when it uses a comprehensive assessment system based on clearly-defined performance measures. The assessment system is used to assess student performance on expectations for student learning, identify gaps between expectations for student learning and student performance, evaluate the effectiveness of curriculum and instruction, and determine interventions to […]

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Documenting and using Results.

This blog post discusses The advantages of data use in the classroom and the correct way to use the data.