Continuing and Expanding Action Research Learning

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Continuing and Expanding Action Research Learning

• Cedar Rapids Community Schools
• October, 2004
• Dr. Susan Leddick

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Everythings Up-to-Date in Cedar Rapids!

• Working at classroom,
• building, and
• district levels

2004-05
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What the District Is Doing

• Teaching teams of teachers and administrators to
  use the tools and processes of Action Research in
  order to make improvements in all three levels of
  the district system.
• Emphasizing deployment of school improvement
  plans carrying out strategies that have
  significant impact on student achievement.
• Expanding impact through the Baldrige framework.

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Why Action Research?

• Compatible with adult learning theory
• Compatible with Iowa Professional Development
  Model
• Combines learning and improving
• Works at any system level, in any setting
• Research-based data-driven system-focused

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Why Baldrige?

• Agreed-upon definition of excellence across
  sectors
• An integrator
• Increases scope of leadership view
• Puts PDSA into perspective

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Our Year in Brief Three Ps

• Purposes
• Apply previous knowledge and skills in action
  research (PDSA) to deployment of the 2004 CSIP
• Increase impact of AR by learning and applying
  the Baldrige framework as an integrator
• Preparation
• 3 training sessions, with support between
• Presentation (in Baldrige Format)
• All-district sharing session in April

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Alignment The Starting Point
GOALS
GOALS
vs.
This
This
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Application

• Reflections from last year what were key
  learnings for your team?
• Expanding the Mental Model of System Improvement
  the Baldrige Framework

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An Organizer and Integrator
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Organizing for Deployment
Results
Strategy Teams


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Leadership Work The School Profile

• Purpose of the profile
• How it will be used
• The content
• The support documents

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Assignment for December 8

• Organize and launch AR teams at your school
• Help the teams to
• complete the background information on their team
  projects
• do flow chart on key process
• collect, graph, and analyze baseline data
• Complete part one of the organizational profile
  for your school