Using Continuous Improvement tools, such as mission statements, plus/deltas, and the Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle, you can engage and empower students to "get in the driver's seat" and take charge of their own learning. This presentation equips you with tools that will help improve learning results and student accountability, as well as nurture a learning environment that thrives on continuous improvement.

1. Getting Students to
Take Responsibility for
Their Own Learning
Summer Institute 2013
Presented by:
Kate Howell

2. Hashtag this…
• Choose a photo from your table.
• Add a caption or hashtag to your
photo using a post it!

3. Do you TWEET?
BISD has a new hashtag (#) that we will use
anytime any one of us engages in professional
learning or wants to connect with fellow BISD
educators
#educ8bisd

5. Think for a
moment…
What are your
expectations for
this class?

6. Affinity Diagram
• Grab several Post It Notes.
• Write down your expectations for
this class.
• Each expectation should be on a
separate Post It.
• Add your Post It Notes to the
chart at the front of the room.

7. Today’s Learning
Target:
I can use at least three
Continuous Improvement tools in
my classroom this year.

9. Classroom Application
• Identify areas of learning
interest in a content area
• Develop the components of a
class mission statement

10. Mission StatementsOldie but a goodie!

11. Mission Statements
• Why are we here?
• What do we need to do well
together?
• How will we make that happen?

13.  Recite during morning meeting everyday
as a reminder for students and
teambuilding activity
 Refer back to it as you introduce a
new unit to remind students of our
purpose
 Behavior intervention- whole class or
individuals
 Include it on your WEBSITE! 
Integrate your mission statement
into classroom routines

14. Learning Targets
Assessment

15. How are learning
targets the “link”
between planning,
teaching, and
assessment?

16. Shuffle the Deck

17. How are learning
targets the “link”
between planning,
teaching, and
assessment?

18. Classroom Application
• LTs should be discussed in the beginning,
referenced to in the middle, and
recapped at the end
– Beginning: “By the end of this lesson, you
should be able to …..”
– Middle: “Remember as you work in groups to
focus on our learning target of …..”
– End: “How confident are you that you can
now .....? Write on your exit ticket one
example of….”

19. Learning Targets
• Students should begin asking
themselves…
–Where am I going?
–Where am I now?
–How can I close the gap?

21. Make it easy on
yourself!

23. Post student work
with its related
learning target!

25. Issue Bin
•Captures questions that deserve further
discussion or clarification
—Later/more appropriate time
•Group members can anonymously
comment or question without interrupting

26. 5 min? 10 min?

27. Download this FREE app on your phone
(iPhone or Android)

28. 1. Scan code using the I-Nigma app
2. Fill out the Google form
Consensogram

29. •collect information about an
individual’s perceptions or background
knowledge
Consensogram

30. • Determine levels of understanding
—“How much do you know about…”
• Gather student feelings
—“How did you feel about the unit
test?”
• Provide the teacher with feedback so
instruction can be modified/differentiated
• Shows students that their ideas, beliefs,
and feelings are important and valued.
Classroom Application

31. Tracking Data
Data
tells a
story

32. Tracking Data
• What Data?
–Reading Levels
–Learning on Specific SE’s
–Test Scores
–Fluency
–Stamina (time)
–Progress Through a Process

33. Class
Data

34. Class
Data

35. Class
Data

36. Individual
Data

39. Plus/Delta
• Examining a system or process for
strengths and opportunities for
improvement
• Helps identify the “next steps”
• Prescription

40. Try it with technology!
Linoit.com

42. PDSA
CycleInvolves
students
Academics
Behavior
management

43. Plan
• What is the current problem that
needs to be addressed?
• What is our learning target for the
week?

44. DO
• What improvement strategies will we
use to correct the problem?
• What will we do to learn what we
said we would learn?
• Group Brainstorm and
consensus
• Choice Board or Strategy
Bank
• Spinner
• Individuals choose two

46. Study
• What information/data will be used to
determine whether or not the
improvement strategy is working?
• What were our results? What do our
results tell us?
• Plus/Delta
• Charts and graphs
• Data Folders
• Tally marks

47. Act
• Has our improvement strategy worked?
• If so, CELEBRATE! The “Do” will now
become a best practice for this goal.
• If not, go back to the original problem
and rework the plan.
• What will we do differently next time?
• Rx from your Plus/Delta
• Act is about improving the “Do” and
is a reaction to the data.

50. What should the act be?

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May 2003
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I Love Go to
The Faren
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Kotand cadin
PROMPT: Write a sentence
about yourself.
Draw a picture to go with it.

52. ©J im Shipley & Associates, Inc.
May 2003
PLAN
I will git a stag 3 on
my nex riting test in
nex moth.
DO
I ned spasis.
I ned to rit mor wrds.
I ned to put a bcos.
I will put a pireed.
I will do a dskiben wrd.
ACT
___My plan worked
___I need a new plan
STUDY
SARAH’S IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR WRITING

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May 2003
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Bcosa It Is so
Kotlea Dog are
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the Dog I am
a Dog
Looveroa.
PROMPT: Write about an animal
that you like. Tell why you like
the animal.

54. ©J im Shipley & Associates, Inc.
May 2003
PLAN
I will git a stag 3 on
my nex riting test in
nex moth.
DO
I ned spasis.
I ned to rit mor wrds.
I ned to put a bcos.
I will put a pireed.
I will do a dskiben wrd.
ACT
_X__My plan worked
___I need a new plan
STUDY
Yipe I did it
I got ubuv a 3 bie 1
Now I wil shut for a 3.5
SARAH’S IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR WRITING
Get your kids in
the driver’s seat!

55. Today’s Learning
Target:
I can use at least three Continuous
Improvement tools in my classroom this
year.
- I am ready to get going!
– I am feeling a little overwhelmed
but just need time to process.
– I’d like some help to get started!

56. Leave your name and campus and I will set
up some time to help you get started!
What could be more
clear in this training?
What worked well for
you in this training?

57. • New BISD professional development survey
– Less than 5 questions!
– Open-ended rather than multiple choice
– Reflective…
We do not learn from
experience…we learn from
reflecting on experience.
John Dewey

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