Quality Liaisons

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Quality Liaisons

• January 23rd, 2007

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Please sit by level
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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

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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

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Sharing

• Share a positive action that youve taken in
  carrying out your role as a Quality Liaison
• Describe the experience
• What made it positive ?

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Enhancing Facilitation Skills

• Deb Preisser, GWAEA

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District Updates

• Department Leadership Teams
• Staff Development Offerings
• Quality Levels (Specials and Media)
• Teacher Workload
• 4 Schools Training
• NQEC Blog
• Video Library
• Scorecard Measure

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District Updates

• Department Leadership Teams

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Next Year- All Schools with a Plan on a Page
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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

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District Updates

• Quality Levels
• Customizing Quality
  Levels for
• Elementary special
  areas (Art, Music, PE)
• Media Specialists

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District Updates
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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

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District Updates

• NQEC
• Presentation opportunities
• Be a leader in the quality in education movement!

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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!

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http//www.asq.org/blog/
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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 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
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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

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District Updates

• Balanced Scorecard Measure
• Increase of staff implementing practices of
  the 4 Quality
  Levels
  (as
  measured by the
  Deployment
  Instrument).

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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?

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Quality Tools

• Scatter Diagram

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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.

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Negative Correlation
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No Correlation
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Prior to next meeting

• Next Meeting March 6th, 2007
• Advise the BLT of the new District Scorecard
  measure for Continuous Improvement
• Share the process/timeline for administering the
  Deployment Instrument at your school
• Discuss how the results could be used to support
  continuous improvement

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Final Thoughts

• Questions?
• Comments?
• Meeting Evaluation

Thank you- Leaders of Continuous Improvement!