Transcript Action Research Deployment Teams

Quality Liaisons
January 23rd, 2007
Please sit
by level
Responsibilities of the
Quality Liaison:
Main communication channel between the
District and school/department
 Serve as a "PDSA/Action Research”
support person for the school or
department (to locate resources and/or find
answers to questions)
 Keep the momentum of action research
going through discussions, conversations
and sharing of information to staff

Purposes of Liaison Network
Learn and share best practices in
PDSA/Action Research and quality tool
usage
 Network with other liaisons to share ideas
and best practices
 Learn from each other's expertise and
experiences and discuss how to deploy
and enhance continuous improvement
efforts in CRCSD
 Support the implementation of the 4
Quality Levels at the school

Sharing
Share
a positive action that
you’ve taken in carrying out
your role as a Quality Liaison
Describe the experience
 What made it positive ?

Enhancing Facilitation
Skills
Deb Preisser, GWAEA
District Updates
Department Leadership Teams
 Staff Development Offerings
 Quality Levels (Specials and Media)
 Teacher Workload
 4 Schools Training
 NQEC & Blog
 Video Library
 Scorecard Measure

District Updates

Department Leadership Teams
Hoover School Improvement Plan
2006-2007
VISION
Excellence for All
HOOVER MISSION
The mission of the Hoover community is to develop
life-long learners and responsible citizens through continuous
improvement and excellence for all.
CORE VALUES
Customer Satisfaction
Data-Driven Decisions
Learning for All
Teamwork
Visionary Leadership
HOOVER SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT GOALS
Reading Comprehension
During the 2006-2007 school year the number of K-5 students at Hoover who improve
their reading comprehension skills will increase by 5% in each grade level as measured
by the District Benchmark Reading Assessments (LAPO & ERA).
Math Computation
During the 2006-2007 school year, the percentage of students scoring in the high and
intermediate proficiency levels will increase in math computation at Hoover Elementary
as measured by the district math assessments and the ITBS.
Social, Emotional, Behavioral- School Climate
During the 2006-2007 school year, Hoover students in grade 2-5 will increase their level
of student respect based on the Hoover student satisfaction survey.
GUIDING PHILOSOPHY
Continuous Improvement
Next Year- All Schools
with a Plan on a Page
District Updates
 Staff
Development Offerings
 Quality
Classroom Level 1
begins January 30th
 Data Centers/Data Folders
begins January 25th
 Please share flyer with staff at
your school
District Updates
 Quality
Levels
 Customizing Quality
Levels for:
 Elementary
special
areas (Art, Music, PE)
 Media Specialists
District Updates
District Updates
4
Schools Training
 Viola
Gibson, Wright, Jackson and
Nixon
 All staff participating in 5 half-day
training
 Components of the Continuous
Improvement Classroom- 4 Quality
Levels
District Updates
NQEC
 Presentation
opportunities
 Be a leader in the quality in
education movement!
District Updates
 Quality
in Education Blog
 Hosted
by the American Society
for Quality (ASQ)
 Sign up for email alerts
 Keep current on quality issues
 Post a comment
 Be a guest blogger!
http://www.asq.org/blog/
District Updates
 Video
Library
 Goal:
create a video library
 Quality
Tools
 8 Components of
the Continuous
Improvement
Classroom
 Soliciting
volunteers!
Ground rules
created by
students
Classroom
mission
statements
Quality tools and
PDSA used
regularly
The
Continuous
Improvement
Classroom
Classroom
meetings
facilitated by
students
Student-led
conferences
Classroom and
student
measurable goals
Classroom data
centers
Student data
folders
Data Warehouse
 District
SMART Goal & Action Plan
 Vision: Integrated data
management system with real-time
access at the fingertips of
employees
 Just-in-time reporting and
monitoring
District Updates
 Balanced
 Increase
Scorecard Measure:
% of staff implementing
practices of
the 4 Quality
Levels (as
measured by the
Deployment
Instrument).
Quality Liaison Role
Be prepared to assist in the
administration of the deployment
instrument in April to all teachers
 Advise the BLT; heads-up!
 Details shared with principals and
Quality Liaisons at future meeting
 How can your school use the data
collected to drive Continuous
Improvement?

Quality Tools
Scatter Diagram
Scatter Diagram
• WHAT is a scatter diagram?
– A picture of the correlation between two
factors over time.
– The more data - the more reliable
– The closer the data resembles a straight
line, the higher the correlation to each
other.
– Diagrams may be positive, negative or
show no correlation.
Fall Term 8th Grade Math 4th period
110
100
90
80
Average Test Grade
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
0
10
20
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40
50
60
Percent of Practice Activities Completed
70
80
90
100
Negative Correlation
100
90
80
70
60
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40
30
20
10
0
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
5
No Correlation
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
0
10
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70
80
90
100
Math Games & Test Scores
Unit 3
100
90
Percent Correct on Math Test
by Student
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
20
30
40
50
60
70
Minutes Spent w/Math Games
80
90
100
Prior to next meeting…
Meeting: March 6th, 2007
 Advise the BLT of the new District
Scorecard measure for Continuous
Improvement
 Next
 Share
the process/timeline for
administering the Deployment
Instrument at your school
 Discuss how the results could be used
to support continuous improvement
Final Thoughts…
 Questions?
 Comments?
 Meeting
Evaluation
Thank you- Leaders of
Continuous Improvement!