Koalaty Kid Site Visits
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Power Point on Site Vist to Jane Addams School-December,2002
Our Perceptions of the Visit
Site Visit to Jane Addams
Please make some notes about what you see.
Make sure you turn your responses in to Carol before you leave for home. She will put together a power point presentation with pictures for our presentation on Monday night. If you had a digital camera, please turn in your disks to Carol. Each person who attended the site visit will get a copy of everything that was shared.<o:p></o:p>
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What to look for:
How are quality processes integrated into the curriculum?
v Tool and processes are used throughout the curriculum
v Writing Goals and Expectations are posted in all classrooms
v Students have a clear understanding of these expectations and a knowledge of how to improve.
v Various tools throughout all grade levels are: Lotus, Fishbone Diagram, Consensagram, Flow Charts, Affinity, Force Field Analysis-all of these tools are used to promote continuous improvement with students.
Describe some examples of quality tools used as a part of the PDSA process:
v Enthusiasm Matrix
v PDSA visible in all classrooms
o Common PDSA through out the building for improving reading enthusiasm
v Writing Process-Charting
v Accelerated Reader-Improvement Cycle
What was the spirit or feeling of the whole school community?
v Cooperative
v Teamwork
v Willingness to Share
v Enthusiasm at working toward a common goals
v Students knew what the goal was and were striving to improve.
v Mission Statement are at all levels, district, school, classroom, personal<o:
Is there a level of community and parent involvement in the quality process? How is this demonstrated?
v Some tool usage has been implemented at PTA Meetings
v Terms are used in newsletters
v Plans are in place to present quality processes to PTA
Can academic results be attributed to Koalaty Kid, if so how? What data is collected?
v ISAT Scores have improved
v Data is collected monthly on: Vocabulary, Reading Enthusiasm, and Accelerated Reader
v Math Facts are still being worked on, but data is collected within the classroom.
How is Koalaty Kid part of the school improvement process?
v Goals are used within the PDSA Process
v Tools are used in a meaningful way for continuous improvement
v Students are involved in data collections and utilize tools for continuous improvement.
Interact with the students, what did you learn from the student perspective?
v Students are enthusiastic about their learning
v Understand the stages of writing and what it takes to improve.
v Student are able to understand expectations and to share their data
v Students understand what it takes to improve in curricular areas
v The understand the tools and how they are used and what they are
What do student data folders look like? What do they include?
v Folders
v Accelerated reader goals and histograms
v Spelling
v Math Facts
v Goal setting per subject area related to test grades and daily work
v Writing: Narrative(2), Persuasive(2), Expository(2)
v Goals can only be set on data collected; this makes sure that goals are measurable.
Given everything that you saw on this visit, what one or two critical things would you like to replicate in your classroom? School?
v Need to slow down the implementation process and only do one PDSA School-wide
v Use of Force Field for improvement<o:p></o:p>
v Stage Writing
v Quality Student, Teacher, and School Activity
v Set a benchmark for data collection
v Goals can only be set for something in data folder, this makes sure the goals measurable.
v Set a deadline for goal to met (First quarter, in so many weeks)
v Mission Statements, School, Classroom, and Personal Mission, or goals
Given everything that you saw on this visit, what is something you would change or do differently?
v Data folders-three ring binders instead of folders
v More goals set-yearly and daily
Other comments or observations?
v Scope and Sequence for Quality Tools and Graphic Organizers
v Pads or Fast Feedback and Plus/Delta
v This process has developed over the last four years
v SIP Plan using Baldridge-PDSA
v Each staff meeting a tool was introduced. Staff members were given time to practice and come back next month and were given the opportunity to share.
v Koalaty Kid Club for grades 2-6th grade. Representatives are nominated by teachers. Students learn a tool or a section of PDSA and teach it to their classrooms.
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