Building an Excellent System by Building Systems of Excellence

Deer Valley Middle SchoolBoard Presentation

September 28, 2010

PDSA in our classrooms

•Students developed mission statements

•Set their goals

•Chart their progress

•Are involved in the learning process

•Perform a PDSA on their progress and learning

To ensure success for every child four pertinent questions must be asked:

1. What is it we want all students to learn?

2. How will we know if they have learned it?

3. How will we respond when they don’t?

4. How will we respond when they already

know it? Learn By Doing

Students are engaged in a systems approach to learning: Strategic approach – the what

•Set and communicate direction for student learning

•Clarify and communicate the learning requirements•Publish and post class learning goal•Chart an analyze learning results for class•Write class mission statement

Students are engaged in a systems approach to learning: Operational approach – the how

•Engage students in a regular and frequent evaluation and improvement of learning process

•Plan – frequent short cycles of learning target•Do - Determine what every teacher and student needs to do to ensure that everyone learns the target

•Study – The results of strategies used in the learning cycle•Act – Plan and make adjustments for the next cycle of learning

Continuous Improvement Cycle (PDSA)

PLANIdentify improvement

opportunity, collect baseline data and plan the change

DOImplement the change

and collect data

STUDYAnalyze the results

ACTAdopt the change or abandon the change

Classroom PDSA

PLAN

DO

STUDY

ACT

Do it all again!

1. Share test or finished product results.2. Determine how many students have

demonstrated mastery of all critical content. Post these data – by number of, not name!

3. Use a + to evaluate all learning opportunities.

4. Develop a plan for dealing with the ’s in the next learning cycle. Post the plan. Do the plan.

5. Study what happened.

6. Make improvements based on what was learned.

Workbook page 33Getting Started – The Work Core

Classroom & Student Learning Processes

Source: Jim Shipley & Associates, Inc.

Students are in control of their own learning

Students write their class Mission statements

Students Planning and Doing

Explanation of the Study and Act

Examples of personal goal setting and PDSA

Example of weekly PDSA for every student

(Example of Act)What will you do with what you’ve learned?

• If you saw improvement, keep what’s working.

• If no improvement, create a new plan.

This part can become your DO for the next cycle.Act

We studied our results for: _____________

__ We improved.___ We did not improve.

Next week students will do the following things differently:

Next week the teacher will do the following things differently:

Once they have mastered the process, Goal Setting and

PDSA can also be used individually by students to

achieve even greater success.

Once they have mastered the process, Goal Setting and

PDSA can also be used individually by students to

achieve even greater success.

Everyone Every Way Every Day

PDSA looks different in every class, but

EVERY class is teachingstudents how to be in CONTROL of their own

LEARNING.