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?
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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 […]
Read More Continuous Improvement Model for Schools: Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) (Cont.)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 […]
Read More Continuous Improvement Model for Schools: Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) (Cont.)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 […]
Read More Continuous Improvement Model for Schools: Plan, Do, Study, Act (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 […]
Read More Mastery learning in the classroom.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.
Read More Mastery Learning, Now More Than Ever.Commitment to Continuous Improvement.
Improvement efforts are sustained and the school demonstrates progress in improving student performance and school effectiveness.
Read More Commitment to Continuous Improvement.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 […]
Read More Teaching and Learning, You Can’t Have One Without The Other.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 […]
Read More Data Driven Districts: Documenting and using results.Resources and Support Systems.
The implementation of No Child Left Behind has put more emphasis on state testing than at any other time in educational history. Because of this emphasis in state testing, the results from these tests have become the main focus of school systems across the country. There must be resources and support systems in place for schools to meet student achievement.
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The Prepared Student 