Education for the Future eff.csuchico

Education for the Futurehttp://eff.csuchico.edu

Bradley J. [email protected]

Using Data forContinuous School

Improvement

Educat ion for the Future

Background• California State University, Chico• Education for the Future – Non-Profit Initiative• Victoria L. Bernhardt, Exec Director

• Funded by contracts.• 15 Books, Conferences, Institutes, Workshops.

• Manage long-term implementation contracts.


Today’s Focus

The Processes That Produce Our Results


Outcomes

• The importance of process measurement in comprehensive data analysis.

• The specific role of organizational processes and the importance of assessing these as a staff.

Everyone knows:


Agenda

• Review the role of process measurement in comprehensive data analysis.

• Assess systems-level processes / how you are doing relative to CIPlanning with the Continuous Improvement Continuums.

Continuous Improvement Cycle

MissionVision

Mission succinctly defines the fundamental purpose of an organization or an

enterprise, describing why they exist.


Vision defines the desired or intendedfuture state of an organization or enterprise

in terms of its fundamental objectives relative to key, core areas (curr, inst, assess,

environ).



All Data Analysis Must Lead Us To The Processes That

Produce Our Results

Assessing ProcessesSchools are perfectly designed to

get the results they are getting now. If schools want different results, they must measure and then change their processes to create the results they

really want.

Where are we now?


Measuring School ProcessesProcesses include…

Actions, changes, functions that bring about a desired result

Curriculum, instructional strategies, assessment, programs, interventions … The way we work.


Measuring School Processes

The missing link in improving K-12 education

The missing link in meeting NCLB requirements


Measuring School ProcessesIf you are not monitoringand measuring program

implementation, the program probably does not exist.


Measuring Processes With The CICs

Where are we now?


Continuous Improvement ContinuumsAssessing Process Across the School/ District System


Continuous ImprovementContinuums

• Systems level process measurement tool.• Assessment of where you are in the Continuous Improvement Planning process that involves all staff and presents the opportunity to prescribe specific next steps.


Continuous Improvement ContinuumsAssessing Process Across the School/ District System

• A consensus assessment of the system by all staff. Next steps…• Important benchmark to see strengths vs. challenges toimplement change, links between continuums.

The 7 continuums describe theschool/district system.

• Information and Analysis• Student Achievement• Quality Planning• Professional Development• Leadership• Partnership Development• Cont. Improvement and Evaluation


Continuous Improvement ContinuumsComing to Consensus

• Individually, think about where you would place your school within the continuums. • Come to consensus• Identify and document next steps.


Please see if you can identify where your school district is

right now with respect to Information & Analysis —

APPROACH,IMPLEMENTATION,

and OUTCOME

Information and Analysis


Student AchievementEducat ion for the Future

“Shared visions emerge from personal visions. This is how they derive their energy

and how they foster commitment… If people don’t have their own vision, all they can do is‘sign up’for someone else’s. The result is compliance, never commitment.”

Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

Preconditions for School Improvement


Instructional Coherence. A Shared Vision for

School Improvement. Data-Driven Decision Making.

Quality Planning


“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the

time. Vision with action can change the world”

Joel A. Barker

Quality Planning


Mission, vision, goals. One action plan to vision.

Budget matches action plan.

Leadership


“An essential factor in leadership is the capacity to influence and

organize meaning for the members of the organization.”

Tom Peters

LeadershipEducat ion for the Future

Assists everyone in theorganization in

implementingthe vision. Structures in alignment

withthe vision. Roles and

responsibilities. Effective meetings.

Professional Learning


“It’s easy to get the players. Getting‘em to play together,

that’s the hard part.”- Casey Stengel

Professional Learning


Includes everyone on the staff.

How to implement the vision.

Planned in advance.

Partnership Development


“The key to effective partnerships—Both parties must contribute and both

parties must benefit.”-Jere Jacobs

Partnership DevelopmentEducat ion for the Future

Start with what we expectstudents to know and be

ableto do.

Collaborate with: Parents Community Businesses

Continuous Improvement and Evaluation


“Continuous improvementcauses us to think about

upstream process improvement; not downstream damage control.”

-Teams & Tools

Continuous Improvement and Evaluation


Align elements to vision. Systems thinking. Next steps. Evaluate all parts of the system.

Next Steps


Education for the Future eff.csuchico

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