A Continuous Improvement Update

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A Continuous Improvement Update
Communicating Direction and Measuring Progress
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Category 1Leadership

• Requires leaders to set and communicate direction
  consistent with stakeholder
  requirements
• How do leaders set and communicate direction?
• How do leaders monitor progress?
• How do leaders model the use of the principles of
  quality management?

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Aim of the Organization
Goals and Measures
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Staff Feedback
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Getting deployment to all classrooms and all
employee groups

• Stakeholders need to be able to see it, hear it
  and feel it before they can accomplish it
• Tools for communicating direction
• SMART Goals, Action Plans, Quality Levels

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Aligning School Improvement Plans to the District
Strategic Plan
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The 4 Quality Levels
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Quality Tools
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Customer Feedback Tools!
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Classroom Data Center
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SMART Goals
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Action Plan
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Once goals and action plans have been set, it is
critical to be able to measure progress

• Tools for getting focused and measuring
  deployment
• Balanced Scorecard
• Quality Deployment Instruments

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How Will We Measure Our Progress?
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Deployment Instrument
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Once direction has been set, communicated,
deployed and measured, there must also be
internal support and capacity to accomplish the
outcomes

• Tools for supporting continuous improvement
  outcomes
• Professional development/training
• Action Research deployment teams
• Quality Liaison Network
• Self-directed learning/web site

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• PDSA Deployment Teams
• (265 Individuals/49 Teams Schools/Support
  Services)
• Set communicate direction at the
  school/department level
• Learn quality tools and the PDSA process
• Develop skills as a Building Leadership Team

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Quality Liaison Network

• 72 Quality Liaisons (from the schools and support
  services departments)
• Meet monthly
• Support continuous improvement at the building
  and department level
• Modeling quality tools and processes
• Assisting with the deployment of the
  4 quality levels
• Building internal capacity and
  support

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Other Training Opportunities
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Web Site Support
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Iowa Recognition for Performance Excellence (IRPE)