• Continuous Improvement

    Board of Trustees Continuous Improvement
    Suggested Professional Learning Sequence

    ORIENTATION/ AWARENESS

    Orientation to Performance Excellence
    This training provides an introduction to the Criteria for Performance Excellence and is the prerequisite for other more in-depth sessions. It is an essential first step to the continuous improvement journey.

    • Identify strategies and techniques for getting started using the Criteria for High Performance
    • Focus on the relationships required for success form key stakeholder groups
    • Identify the principles of organizational change
    • Provide a framework for using an entry-level assessment instrument to determine organizational effectiveness

      Prerequisites: None
      Length of Workshop: 2 days

    ASSESSING
    SYSTEMS
    CAPACITY

    School Board Systems Check Level III Facilitated Assessment Process
    A trained consultant will assist the School Board with assessing board performance using a Level III Systems Check Assessment.

    • Provides the board with written feedback prepared by a staff trained experts
    • Establishes baseline data and recommended actions for setting school board priorities for improvement and refinement

      Prerequisites: Orientation to Performance Excellence Workshop
      Length of Workshop: 1 day on site plus feedback meeting at a later date
    STRATEGIC/
    OPERATIONAL
    PLANNING

    Planning for Performance Excellence: A Systems Approach to Board Improvement Planning
    A trained consultant will meet with the School Board members to establish a board-level improvement plan.

    • Develop goals, measures and indicators that will set direction for the board
    • Develop an improvement plan for the board

      Prerequisites: Orientation to Performance Excellence Length of Workshop: 1 day
    DEPLOYMENT COMPONENTS

    Tools and Techniques for Performance Excellence
    Tools and Techniques training helps to support the on-going improvement efforts of process improvement efforts and introduces participants to the use of a PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) process improvement approach.

    • This training introduces district staff to quality improvement techniques and tools for use with process improvement teams
    • Participants learn how to choose the quality tool that is most appropriate for a variety of analysis, problem solving and decision-making purposes

      Prerequisites: Orientation to Performance Excellence Length of Workshop: 1 day
    BUILDING
    CAPACITY

    Leading for Performance Excellence Part I: A Focus on Application and Deployment
    This workshop focuses on the management and improvement of leadership systems to support performance excellence. Leaders will learn about the systems components needed to build a high performing school or district. Time is provided to work on the district or school quality implementation and training deployment plan.

    • Understand the leader's roles and responsibilities for leading an integrated management system to achieve performance excellence
    • Learn to support effective work teams. All participants will develop a plan for leading a multi-level process improvement initiative.

      Prerequisites: Orientation to Performance Excellence, Planning for Performance Excellence 2 days