1. P – D – S – A
What is it and why use it?

2. Continuous Improvement Cycle (PDSA)
PLAN
Identify improvement opportunity, collect baseline data and plan the change
ACT
Adopt the change or abandon the change DO
Implement the change and collect data
STUDY
Analyze the results

3. Monticello Elementary School
One school’s results after doing PDSA with their students.

4. Tropic Isles Elementary 910 students – 79% on f/r lunch
Another schools results.

5. 6 Steps to Improvement for the Classroom
Assessing the System
6 Steps to Improvement for the Classroom
PLAN
How are we doing? How do we know?
Why are we here? What do we need to do well together? How will we know how we’re doing?
How will we work together to get better?
What will we do differently?
What happened?
What are we going to do with what we learned? DO
STUDY
Let’s look at the six steps again - this time we’ll substitute questions that could guide our progress through the PDSA cycle.
ACT
Do it all again!
Source: Jim Shipley & Associates, Inc.

6. PLAN What do students need to know and be able to do
PLAN What do students need to know and be able to do? Based on your data, what is an area that needs to improve?
Examples:
Solve multi-digit addition and subtraction problems
Identify chemical properties and reactions
Count to 100
Use correct capitalization and punctuation
Analyze cause and event

7. PLAN Charlestown Elem. Bainbridge Elem.
More examples from our own county! - One from Charlestown Elementary and one from Bainbridge Elementary School. These are examples of their PLAN!
Bainbridge Elem.

8. STUDENT ANALYSIS
Students identify what it is they need to work on and try to figure out why they got something wrong.

9. What will we do to learn this?
Identify key learning processes that will help the class learn (activities, strategies, etc.)
What is the teacher’s job?
What are the students’ jobs?
Try it out and see how it goes.

10. DO
These are examples of the DO step from Charlestown and Bainbridge.

11. CLARIFY ACTION PLAN
Students study their results and create an action plan.

12. Study Study what happened. Look at your data
Based on what you chose as your measure in the PLAN step, how did the class do?
Are your results better?
Is the class showing improvement?
Do a plus/delta the learning that lead to the data

13. An example of item analysis to use for the STUDY step of PDSA.

14. STUDY Cherry Hill Middle School Bainbridge Elem.
More examples of ways to STUDY from our county - Cherry Hill and Bainbridge.
Bainbridge Elem.

15. What will you do with what you’ve learned?
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:

16. Classroom & Student Learning Processes
Getting Started – The Work Core
Workbook page 33
Classroom & Student Learning Processes
Classroom PDSA
PLAN
Share test or finished product results.
Determine how many students have demonstrated mastery of all critical content. Post these data – by number of, not name!
Use a +  to evaluate all learning opportunities.
Develop a plan for dealing with the ’s in the next learning cycle. Post the plan. Do the plan.
Study what happened.
Make improvements based on what was learned. DO
Let’s start with using the plus/delta process as a part of the PDSA cycle.
STUDY
ACT
Source: Jim Shipley & Associates, Inc.
Do it all again!

17. Once they have mastered the process, Goal Setting and PDSA can also be used individually by students to achieve even greater success.

18. PDSA looks different in EVERY class is teaching
every class, but
EVERY class is teaching
students how to be in
CONTROL of their own
LEARNING.

19. Questions?
Questions?
Questions?
Questions?
Questions?
Questions?