Excellence and the Ultimate Success Formula

Creating your path to your potential

Presentation by Rick Orr, April 7, 2011

Excellence

Excellence is an art won by training and habit. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle, Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Excellence…Principle #1

Set High Standards

Excellence…Principle #2

Work with Enthusiasm

Excellence…Principle #3

Pay Attention to Details

Excellence…Principle #4

Have a Positive Attitude

Excellence…Principle #5

Do More than is Expected

The Ultimate Success Formula

The Ultimate Success FormulaThe Continuous Improvement Model

PDCA was made popular by Dr. W. Edward Deming, who is considered by many to be the father of modern quality control. Later in Deming's career, he modified PDCA to "Plan, Do, Study, Act" (PDSA) so as to better describe his recommendations.

The power of Deming's concept lies in its simplicity. The concept of feedback in the scientific method, is today firmly rooted in education.

The Ultimate Success Formula

PLAN Establish the objectives and processes necessary to deliver results in accordance with the expected output. Make the expected output the focus and S.M.A.R.T.

  DO 

Implement the new processes. Take action to make it happen. Direct focus.

   CHECK 

Notice what is working and what isn’t. Measure the processes and compare the results against the expected results to ascertain any differences.

  ACT 

When things aren’t working change your approach continually until it does. Analyze the differences to determine their cause. Each will be part of either one or more of the P-D-C-A steps. Determine where to apply changes that will include improvement. When a pass through these four steps does not result in the need to improve, refine the scope to which PDCA is applied until there is a plan that involves improvement.

Is It Possible?

Is it possible for schools with the lowest student performance in the state to increase school grade points by 51 in one year?

Do you believe that “All Students Can Learn?”

It is Possible!

Closing The Achievement Gap

Florida County

Pearl River New York

Iredell Statesville

Continuous Improvement Model (CIM)in Florida

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Florida County Students Grades

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Successful outcomes of using the PDCA Model

• Students graduating with a diploma increased from 63% in 1996 to 89% in 2001

• Student satisfaction surveys increased from 70% in 1998 to 92% in 2001

• Parent satisfaction surveys increased from 62% in 1996 to 98% in 2001

• 75% of special education students take the SAT exam compared to 2% statewide and 3% nationwide

• 2001 recipient of Macolm Baldridge National Quality Education Award

Iredell Statesville Schools

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Effective Schools

Five characteristics of effective schools:

1. Strong instructional leadership

2. High expectations for student achievement

3. Instructional focus on objectives

4. Safe/orderly climate

5. Frequent assessment

Align curriculum, instruction, assessment and improvement through a systematic process

Heighten professionalism

Target instruction that focuses onobjectives

CIM: Summary

Possibilities are endless…

Must start with a belief,

All Students Can Learn,

All Instructors Can Learn