Chalkboard Project: Introduction to Improvement Science

Created by the Chalkboard Project in Oregon, this presentation introduces those in the field of education to improvement science.

1. Introduction to Improvement Science

2. Middle Name Game

3. Solutionitis

4. What’s a recent example of solutionitis in your district?

5. 65% 35% First year results for a large, multi-site randomized field trial

6. 65%

7. 65%

8. Focus on variation Improvement Science Principle

9. Improvement science is both…

10. Make the work problem-specific and user-centered Improvement Science Principle

11. Problem statement: New teachers don’t become effective fast enough.

12. Evaluation data, District X

13. “ You cannot be an effective problem-solver from a distance. There are details and nuances to problems that you will miss unless you are close enough to observe those details.” —Bryan Stevenson

14. DEATH BY SURVEY

15. EMPATHY DATA Get out of your own space Empathy mindset — without judgment   with a beginner’s eyes/heart with curiosity with optimism with respect Extreme users

16. Model EMPATHY Interview WITH A NEW TEACHER Take notice of the interview questions, style, and substance.

17. EMPATHY Interviews Encourage stories Ask why Be neutral Capture what you hear Look for inconsistencies Don’t suggest answers to your questions Take notes 

18. Empathy Interviews Tight Loose Systematic collection and analysis Open ended questions that encourage stories

19. Insert screen shot of IES and/or IES practice guides

20. Root cause analysis New teachers don’t become effective fast enough Cause

21. See the system that produces the current outcomes. Every system is perfectly designed to get exactly the results it gets. Improvement Science Principle

22. By June 2016, the district will increase the number of new teachers judged efficacious by 40 percent. When : By June 2016, Who : new teachers What : judged efficacious How much : increase by 40 percent

23. Increase the number of new teachers judged efficacious by 40 percent E ffectively recruit, hire and assign new teachers Professional community that supports new teachers   Supportive feedback process   Supportive r elationship between principals and new teachers   Professional development that supports new teachers  

24. GOAL 28 What Where How

25. Use disciplined inquiry to drive improvement Improvement Science Principle

26. Culture of inquiry Disciplined inquiry

27. Increase the number of new teachers judged efficacious by 40 percent   Supportive feedback process      

28. Plan Prediction : Feedback will be useful to new teachers.

29. Plan Do

30. Plan Do Study

31. Prediction: Feedback will be useful.

32. Plan Do Study Act Adapt? Adopt? Abandon?

33. What’s an example of something in your woRLD that is screaming for a PDSA?

34. We cannot improve at scale what we cannot measure Improvement Science Principle

35. Solutionitis

36. Improvement Science Processes What is the problem we are trying to solve? Why does this problem exist? What are we trying to accomplish? What do we already know? What are we going to change? How will we know if our change is an improvement?

37. Improvement science is both…

38. WHAT RESONATED THE MOST FOR YOU TODAY? WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE?

39. Questions?