1. From Rhetoric to Action
Annual Report of the State of the Cedar Rapids Community School District
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
November 4, 2005 – 8:00 a.m.
From Rhetoric to Action

2. Quick Facts 121 square miles 2,700 employees 17,500 students
33 attendance sites
$170 million budget
56 formal school/business partnerships
Iowa’s second largest school district

3. Did you know??
IASBO and GFOA Certificates of Excellence in Financial Reporting (10 consecutive years)
Only school district in Iowa initiating E-procurement processes
Moving to geo-mapping of transportation
One of two school districts in the nation involved in the “Switch” Health/Nutrition Study

4. The Other NCLB
No calorie left behind

6. A quick look at other measures in the annual report

14. The biggest challenge and the heart of the problem…
The opportunity/ excellence/ achievement gap

15. Grade 4 Reading - ITBS

16. Grade 11 Reading - ITBS

17. ITBS/ITED
SINA Schools
Watch List Schools
Sanctions
Opportunities for all students

18. The World is Flat- Thomas Friedman
Numbers Gap
Education Gap
Ambition Gap

19. The “Boomerang” Generation (% of offspring returning home between the ages of 18-29)
1990 – 32%
2000 – 60%
2005 – 65%

20. “Change or Die”- Fast Company
Outsourcing
Off shoring
Uploading
Supply Chain

21. Squirm Factors…
Computer programmer…$70,000 U.S.; $8,250 India; $3,000 China
Irish Americans going ‘home’
China – 350,000 student online university
Options outside of the public
school

22. Squirm Factors…
Among adults aged 25-34, the U.S. ranks 9th among industrialized nations in the share of its population with at least a high school diploma; 7th in its share with a college degree

23. Squirm Factors…
Although high school graduates are enrolling in college in higher numbers than in the past (70% nationally, compared to 50% or lower in past generations), the percentage who actually earn degrees in about the same as it was in 1950

24. Squirm Factors…
In Asia, 60% of the college degrees conferred are in mathematics, science, and engineering, compared to just 5% in the U.S. China alone produces 360,000 engineers annually, compared to ,000 in the U.S.

25. How do we make meaningful progress in a large/complex system reacting to abundant and varied pressure to improve?

26. Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence
A helpful framework…
Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence

27. The 7 Baldrige Categories
Leadership
Strategic Planning
Student/Stakeholder Focus
Information and Analysis
Human Resource Focus
Process Management
Performance Results

28. Timeline:
Develop awareness for World-Class Operation of the District; Complete an Iowa Recognition for Performance Excellence Self-Assessment
(June 06) Apply for IRPE Tier 3 Bronze Award
Implementation of IRPE feedback recommendations; Increase deployment of continuous improvement principles and processes
Apply for IRPE Tier 3 Silver Award
Implementation of IRPE feedback recommendations; Increase deployment of continuous improvement principles and processes
Apply for IRPE Tier 3 Gold Award
Apply for Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

29. It’s About Alignment…
Can we get everyone rowing in the same direction?

31. Dave’s Goals: 2005 - 06 Goal 1- Diverse Workforce
Goal 2- Continuous Improvement
Goal 3- Compensation
Goal 4- Enrollment/Facility Study

32. Drilling down: Goal 1 Action Plan
Description of Activity
Research & Rationale
Results
Persons Impacted
Funding
Timeline

33. Drilling Down: Dave’s Goal 2 – 05 - 06
One-year targets:
During the school year, a plan to continue the deployment of continuous improvement efforts in the CRCSD will be formalized.

34. Continuous Improvement Outcomes
Dave’s Goal 2 – 05-06
One-year targets:
Continuous Improvement Outcomes
District & Cabinet
School & Departments
Classroom
Student

35. Dave’s Goal 2 – 05-06 (265/49) Elementary: -Middle School:
One-year targets:
Action Research Deployment Team Workshops
Elementary:
129 individuals representing 24 teams
-Middle School:
42 individuals representing 7 teams
-High School:
42 individuals representing 4 teams
-Support Services:
52 individuals representing 14 teams

36. Monitoring Progress…
Keeping track of ourselves (District balanced scorecard)

38. Monitoring Progress…
What are our stakeholders telling us?

39. Do you enjoy reading to learn?

40. Question #1
To provide the highest quality education to all CRCSD students, what challenges will the district have to address as it plans for the future?

42. Administrators Feedback
I support the District’s continuous improvement efforts…
YES (99%)
NEED CLARIFICATION (1%)
NO (0%)
The pace of our continuous improvement effort is…
Just Right (94%)
Too Fast (5%)
Too Slow (1%)

43. Staff Feedback 98% 98% District Focus:
Strongly
Agree
Disagree
Regarding District direction…
I believe the District is heading in the right direction.
41%
57% 2% 0%
I believe the District has identified the right vision, mission, goals, core values and guiding behavior which I support.
43%
55%
98%
98%

45. “We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us.
We already know more than we need to know to do that Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven’t so far.”
-Ron Edmunds

46. The only thing more exciting than our past is our future
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47. Questions?

48. From Rhetoric to Action
Annual Report of the State of the Cedar Rapids Community School District
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
November 4, 2005 – 8:00 a.m.
From Rhetoric to Action