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Continuous Improvement During a Pandemic

During a stay-at-home pandemic, time is a gift, so how are you taking advantage of this time? Are you doing things to self improve?

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

Plus/delta tool. For schools, teachers, students and teams to be successful, continuous improvement is necessary. However, far too often schools fail to achieve the benefits of change because they don’t know what to change or where to start. The Plus/Delta assessment and feedback tool is quick and effective for both individuals and groups. This brainstorm-type format […]

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 […]