 Information Sharing Days
Charting
Your Course
to Performance Excellence
Presented
by Community Consolidated School District 15,
a 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner.
Please join us for this informative workshop focused on creating
a quality educational organization.
If you are charting a course for continuous improvement in your
organization, you may be anticipating a long and difficult journey.
By sharing our experiences, practices, and programs, we may be able
to help shorten your trip and make it easier with valuable information
and relevant examples.
This informative day-and-a-half session highlights the continuous
improvement process and demonstrates how educational organizations
can create a culture of performance excellence. Superintendents,
central office administrators, principals, and teachers will find
this coaching session especially helpful. You will have the opportunity
to visit our schools to see the use of quality tools in our classroom.
The presentations will focus on these important questions:
- What should continuous improvement mean from a leadership perspective?
What roles and responsibilities should district leaders individually
and collectively assume?
- What is required to develop a comprehensive strategic plan that
supports the timely, effective attainment of improvement goals?
- How can a district develop a student-, stakeholder-, and market-focused
culture?
- What should you measure? How do you analyze data to identify
opportunities for improvement and support improvement theories?
How can your district become data-driven?
- How can you support your teachers and other staff members so
that they can best contribute to the accomplishment of your mission?
- Do you need to realign learning-centered processes and support
processes so that they align with the district’s mission
and goals?
- What are the best methods of continuous monitoring of performance
results to determine whether you’re meeting your objectives?
District 15 initiated its continuous quality improvement initiative
several years ago. Improving our performance enough to win the Malcolm
Baldrige Award was a lengthy and sometimes frustrating process.
We will share many of the lessons we learned about what to do—and
not to do. Our experiences may be helpful to you as you strive to
lead your district or organization to performance excellence.
Workshop Schedule
Day 1
8 a.m.–4 p.m. (Breakfast and lunch provided)
Join us for breakfast and a welcome from Dr. Robert A.
McKanna, superintendent of District 15. Dr. McKanna will
discuss District 15’s journey toward a culture of continuous
improvement, focusing specifically on leadership roles and responsibilities.
The morning and afternoon sessions will continue with presentations
and conversations about how to:
- implement a continuous improvement culture at the district,
school, and classroom levels;
- empower support operations to meet or exceed their defined targets;
- align strategic and action plans to district goals;
- develop accountability procedures to create significant results;
- determine stakeholder needs;
- attract and retain a quality work force;
- standardize processes across the organization;
- create a systematic approach to change management;
- determine training needs; and
- establish timelines and activities.
Breakout sessions will give participants the opportunity to have
conversations with the superintendent, central office administrators,
principals, and teachers to ask questions and explore topics of
particular interest to you in more depth.
Day 2
7:30 a.m.–12 noon (Continental breakfast provided)
Participants will spend the morning visiting our schools and seeing
the use of quality tools in our classrooms.
12 noon–1 p.m. (Lunch provided)
Networking lunch and conference feedback session.
Workshop Materials
Handouts on many of the topics discussed during these two days
will be available so that you can readily adapt these approaches
to meet to your own needs. They will include:
- One-page Plan and Performance Measurement System examples
- Principal improvement plans and annual performance review examples
- Examples of school improvement one-page plans (elementary and
junior high)
- Examples of Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) plans for all district
operations
- Examples of operational definitions
- Student and stakeholder satisfaction surveys and data collection
and analysis processes
- Student performance data analysis processes
- Continuous improvement audit questions
- Education Data Warehouse (EDW)
- Baldrige application
To register, please complete the registration form below.
Registration Information
Sorry, at this time there are no conferences planned.
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