CCI at SMS December 2, 2008

Celebrations

Expected outcomes for today: Achieve a better understanding of: Connection between strategic learning goal (PDSA) and strategic data charts Student involvement in the classroom The need to use specific instructional strategies (DO) How CCI tools can be added to your toolbox

Strategic Learning Goal Is found on the PLAN Identifies specific essential objective(s) that are identified as gap areas Refer back to your CFA/PA analysis, charts When you recognize a gap in a specific objective, that objective becomes your learning target on your PDSA cycle

Objective 1 Objective 2: Main idea Objective 3 Objective 4 Objective 5 10 % 20 % 30 % 40 % 50 % 60 % 70 % 80 % 90 % 100 % Strategic Learning Goal

The gap is what fuels the PDSA fire.

Student Involvement in Your Classroom Don’t limit student involvement to just writing on the PDSA Physical proximity of the PDSA does matter Allow students to give meaningful input on the strategies used for DO

Student Involvement (cont’d) When reflecting on the DO strategies in the STUDY area, ask them, “What helped us learn?” For the “plus” strategies, ask them: How did the activity help us learn? Is there a way we can make it even more helpful to us? Are there other places we can use this strategy? Have we used it enough to make it a best practice?

Student Involvement (cont’d) If the DO strategy is part of the DELTA when you do the STUDY, ask: How did that keep us from learning? Should we stop using it, or can we make it helpful? HOW can we make it more helpful (Rx)?

Instructional Strategies The DO 4 types of strategies are: Behaviors: how a student/teacher behaves (ex: be nice) Expectations: what a student/teacher is expected to do (ex: do my homework; give time to practice) Emerging “do”: broad academic strategies (ex: work in groups) True “do”: specific, academic, HYIS (ex: use hand up, stand up, pair to review for quiz; use teacher- prepared notes with fill in the blanks on the steps to multiply decimals)

Instructional Strategies What’s next? If you haven’t already, create an instructional strategy board and a behavior board in your classroom—large print, post by your PDSA (see handout) Let the students participate, brainstorm, write Help them understand the difference between the two

Quality Tools: Examples Issue Bin Plus-Delta Flow Chart Brainstorming Affinity Diagram 5 Why’s? Run Chart Scatter Diagram Surveys PDSA Cycle Mission Statement Goals Checklist/Rubric Data Folders Student-Led Conferences Histogram

When to Use Some of the Quality Tools Consensogram: can use to measure knowledge, satisfaction, preference, etc. Affinity diagrams: use if an issue is complex, hard to understand; use when group consensus is necessary; often used following brainstorming Drivers, barriers: used to establish factors in success (drivers) and failure (barriers) Student data charts/folders: used to show continuous improvement for individual students = ownership!

Tour de CCI You’ll be visiting CCI classrooms to see good examples of our CCI focus for this month Use the form provided to make notes of how you can adjust items in your classroom to become more effective

Plus, Delta, Rx Please leave feedback before you leave for your “tour” Have a wonderful day!