Welcome Leadership Team

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Welcome Leadership Team

• Session 2 April 2003
• Introduction to Quality Tools
• Tools for Improving Planning and Instruction

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Opener

• Provide each person at your table with one sheet
  of the reflection comments found in the middle of
  your table.
• Is this the way narrative survey data is often
  presented?
• What do people do with qualitative data like
  this?
• How might we organize the information in order to
  make more sense out of it?

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Opener

• As you read through the comments, answer
• What are the themes of reflection?
• Share the themes you found with others at your
  table.

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Pareto Charts

• A pareto chart is one of the quality tools that
  help us make sense out of data and/or
  information. (graph the data, graph the data,
  graph the data!)
• Use a pareto chart when you are trying to
  separate the vital few vs. the trivial many.

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Analyzing Data

• How might we use the information from the pareto
  charts to guide future decisions about
  instruction?

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Opener

• Check it outDid we meet the criteria of an
  effective opener?

• Break preoccupation
• Facilitate networking
• Make a training point

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Its Sampling Time!

• Round two of sampling
• Get out a scratch sheet of paper, please !

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Quality Tools Workshop

• Form teams of four 1 person representing each
  district and GW
• Packet and a tools sheet will be provided to
  each team
• Complete assigned tool task by

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Quality Tools Assignment

• Create the quality tool using the assigned
  documents
• Brainstorm and record other potential
  applications for
• Leadership teams
• Building grade- or content-alike teams
• Classrooms (student use)
• Complete Gallery Walk (applications collected)
• Sit in building teams

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Quality Tools

• To get the most from using quality tools
• Match tool with task
• Know which tools are often used best together
• Practice!

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Quality Tools

• For more information about quality tools
• http//edservices.aea7.k12.ia.us/lltc/mm/model/pds
  a.html
• http//www.sytsma.com/tqmtools/tqmtoolmenu.html
• http//edservices.aea7.k12.ia.us/sibd/data/index.h
  tml

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Team Time

• Record who developed expertise on each tool
  within your district
• Complete data gathering plan for next session
• Prepare for sharing Changing Context with people
  in your building before school is out for the
  summer