Continuous Improvement

In the CRCSD

Putting the Pieces Together

Introductions and Welcome!Introductions and Welcome!

• Why Continuous Improvement?

• What is Quality?• Continuous Improvement

Classroom• Alignment

Why This, Why Now?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

The Big Question???The Big Question???

-Why is the CRCSD -Why is the CRCSD Embracing Quality Embracing Quality

and Continuous and Continuous Improvement?Improvement?

Why Quality and Continuous Why Quality and Continuous Improvement?Improvement?

Answer: The World Has Changed

The World is FlatThe World is Flat• Numbers Gap• Education Gap• Ambition Gap

Thomas Friedman

3 Factors Change the Game3 Factors Change the Game• America is now part of a

global economy• World’s economy based

increasingly on information

• Low cost countries are now able to compete on talent

Squirm Factors…Squirm Factors…• Computer programmer…

• United States $70,000

• India $8,250

• China $3,000

Employment: 1970’s Employment: 1970’s High Skill

Low Skill

Employment: 1990’s Employment: 1990’s High Skill

Low Skill

Semi Skill

Employment: 2010Employment: 2010High Skill

Low Skill

Semi Skill

1970’s1970’s 1990’s1990’s 20102010

Employment Skills

Necessary Employment Skills Are Changing

None of the top 10 jobs in 2010 exists today

-Former Ed. Secretary Richard Riley

The average person today will have 10 - 14 careers

The average job will last 3 – 5 years

-U.S. Department of Labor

Changing JobsChanging Jobs

Our ChallengeOur Challenge• How do we create the learning

environments that engage this generation?

• How do we equip today’s students with the skills and knowledge they need to be competitive in a global, information-based economy and contributing citizens?

Why Quality and Why Quality and Continuous Improvement?Continuous Improvement?

Answer: Students need a different set of skills to compete in today’s world

What Should We Teach?What Should We Teach?• Critical thinking skill areas must

be addressed:

• Information processing skills

• Information presentation skills

• Independent problem solving skills

• Interdependent team-working skills

2121stst Century Learning Skills Century Learning Skills

Transformation-Transformation- Teachers’ New Role:Teachers’ New Role:Teachers as CollaboratorsTeachers as Data UsersTeachers as Customizers

-Learning Point Associates 2004

Leading from the FutureLeading from the Future• Only way to prepare students

for a moving world is to project where it will be when they arrive - to have a vision of the future

• Leaders must think ahead to see what’s coming

So What Will Help Us Get There?So What Will Help Us Get There?• Continuous Improvement

Process & Tools • 4-Quality Levels & • PDSA

• Systems Thinking• Data Driven Decisions• Alignment and focusing on the

“critical few”

So What Will Help Us Get There?So What Will Help Us Get There?

• Continuous Improvement Process & Tools

• PDSA/Action Research• Data driven decisions• Systems thinking

Alignment

Data DrivenDecisions

Leadership Stakeholders & Customers

Quality Tools & Continuous Improvement Classroom

Staff Development

Continuous Improvement

Systems Thinking

PDSAAction

Research

Lotus DiagramLotus DiagramAlignment Systems

ThinkingPDSA/Action

Research

Data-Driven Decisions &

Measurement

Continuous Improvement

Quality Tools & Continuous

ImprovementClassroom

Leadership Stakeholders & Customers

Staff Development

How Can Schools Create An How Can Schools Create An Integrated Structure To Manage Integrated Structure To Manage

Continuous Improvement?Continuous Improvement?

How Will We Measure How Will We Measure Our Progress?Our Progress?

Balanced ScorecardBalanced Scorecard• 1.F: Increase % of students proficient

(above the 40th percentile) on ITBS/ITED in grades 3-12 in Reading, Math and Science

• 1.H: Increase % of students reading at or above grade level by the end of 2nd

grade• 2.G: Decrease student discipline office

referrals• 3.H: Increase ratio of SIP/Department goals

to updated and publicly displayed PDSA Story boards

Action Research/PDSAAction Research/PDSA

Lotus DiagramLotus DiagramAlignment Systems

ThinkingPDSA/Action

Research

Data-Driven Decisions &

Measurement

Continuous Improvement

Quality Tools& ContinuousImprovement

Classroom

Leadership Stakeholders & Customers

Staff Development

Ground rules created by students

Classroom mission

statements

Classroom and student

measurable goals

Quality tools and PDSA used regularly

The Continuous

Improvement Classroom

Classroom data centers

Classroom meetings

facilitated by students

Student-led conferences

Student data folders

“The world we created today has problems which cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created

them.”