Transcript Beginning Action Research Learning

Continuing and Expanding
Action Research Learning
Cedar Rapids
Community Schools
October, 2004
Dr. Susan Leddick
Everything’s Up-to-Date in
Cedar Rapids!
Working at classroom,
building, and
district levels
2004-05
What the District Is Doing
• Teaching teams of teachers and administrators
to use the tools and processes of Action
Research in order to make improvements in all
three levels of the district system.
• Emphasizing deployment of school
improvement plans – carrying out strategies
that have significant impact on student
achievement.
• Expanding impact through the Baldrige
framework.
Why Action Research?
• Compatible with adult learning
theory
• Compatible with Iowa Professional
Development Model
• Combines learning and improving
• Works at any system level, in any
setting
• Research-based; data-driven;
system-focused
Why Baldrige?
• Agreed-upon definition of
excellence across sectors
• An integrator
• Increases scope of leadership view
• Puts PDSA into perspective
Our Year in Brief – Three P’s
• Purposes
– Apply previous knowledge and skills in
action research (PDSA) to deployment of the
2004 CSIP
– Increase impact of AR by learning and
applying the Baldrige framework as an
integrator
• Preparation
– 3 training sessions, with support between
• Presentation (in Baldrige Format)
– All-district sharing session in April
Alignment: The Starting Point
GOALS
GOALS
Application
• Reflections from last year – what
were key learnings for your team?
• Expanding the Mental Model of
System Improvement …the
Baldrige Framework
An Organizer and Integrator
Organizing for Deployment
Strategy
Teams
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Leadership Work:
The School Profile
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Purpose of the profile
How it will be used
The content
The support documents
Profile
2005-06 SIP
Assignment for December 8
 Organize and launch AR teams at your
school
 Help the teams to
 complete the background information on
their team projects
 do flow chart on key process
 collect, graph, and analyze baseline data
 Complete part one of the organizational
profile for your school