Monday  

Establishing baselines and creating a continuous

improvement culture, managing people and improving processes

Theory: Introduction to Quality Management and continuous improvement, systems thinking, processes to improve the system,   shifting management styles and the Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle.

Practice: Understanding participant attitudes and perceptions, initial  data collection, setting up graphs, clarifying the learning goals of the institute, reading, system mapping, creating a common aim, establishing core values, reflection, reading, discussion, applying PDSA to the school/classroom environment and practice with situational           problem solving.

Tuesday

Improving enthusiasm

Theory: Understanding human motivation and enthusiasm and what to do to maintain it.    

Practice: Learning how to utilize Plus/Deltas, scatter diagrams such as the Enthusiasm/Learning graphs, Quality Circles and Student Curriculum Committees to improve and maintain enthusiasm.   

Work time: Culture Tool-Kit

Time for team and individual planning, individual and team coaching, delving into the Culture Mastery™ Tool-Kit, customizing needed tools, developing practices, and beginning action plans.

Wednesday 

Overcoming “Teach, Test and Forget”: Building Knowledge Maps^™ and how to conduct Learning Checks^™

Theory: Knowledge Maps^™, formative assessment, student engagement and cognitive theory.

Practice: Using standards to create Knowledge Maps^™ with the web-based Essential Knowledge Resource^™. Practicing and experiencing Learning Checks^™  from the student's and teacher's perspective.

Work time

Time for team and individual planning, individual and team coaching, delving into the Knowledge Mastery™ Tool-Kit, customizing needed tools, developing practices, and beginning action plans.

Thursday  

Improving performance

Theory: Understanding rubric and non-rubric performance, building authentic assessments, formative and summative assessment, defining quality, designing clear evaluation tools, student self assessment and utilizing data to drive performance improvement.

Practice: How to utilize rubric and non-rubric performance assessment both formatively and summatively, involve students in defining criteria    and designing rubrics, overcome subjectivity, clarify and align rubrics,   and utilize assessment data to build teamwork and drive instruction.

Work time

Time for team and individual planning, individual and team coaching, delving into the Performance Mastery™ Tool-Kit, customizing needed tools, developing practices, and beginning action plans.

Friday

Sharing action plans, introduction to software, other tools and   wrap up

Practice: Applications, discussions, celebrations, course review and final data collection.

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