This document discusses using Six Sigma principles and processes to transform schools into excellent educational systems. It defines the differences between legacy and transformed schools, with the latter embracing critical thinking, breaking down barriers, and instituting rigorous education. Key strategies for transformation include creating consistency of purpose, ceasing dependence on mass teaching, and implementing a plan-do-study-act system. The implementation process involves focusing on processes, educating staff, and driving out fear. The road to excellence involves making the voice of the customer a priority, gaining total buy-in for a culture of excellence, and continuously improving processes.

1. 1
The Excellent
Education
System: Using
Six Sigma to
Transform
our schools

2. The Excellent
Educational System

3. The Excellent
Educational System
Defining educational excellence?
Legacy vs. Transformed School Environments
Transformation Strategies
Implementation Process
Road to Educational Excellence

4. How Do We
Define Educational
Excellence?
Google yields 3,580,000 results
Acquisition and integration of passionate and culturally
aligned professionals
Using tools and processes to advance the mission
Focus on elements that are strategic, transformational

5. How Do We
Define Educational
Excellence?
Focus on gaining and maintaining a true seat at the
table
Securing, training and retaining of talent to
meet your educational strategies
Do we know what to work on

6. How Do We
Define Educational
Excellence?

7. How Do We
Define Educational
Excellence?
Can you answer three questions?
What is it you do?
What does the stakeholder want?
How do you resolve the gap?

8. How Do We
Define Educational
Excellence?
United States Military Academy at West Point
CARING more than others think wise
RISKING more than others think safe
DREAMING more than others think practical
EXPECTING more than others think possible

9. How Do We
Define Educational
Excellence?
Answering the question
Are you a legacy educational system?
Are you a transformational system?
You can not be both

10. How Do We
Define Educational
Excellence?
Looks at the way you operate and identify how you
impede the organizational success
Is able to explain in clear terms why you have a
larger role to play within the community

11. How do we Define
Educational
Excellence?
Key Performing Indicators
We Don’t know, what we don’t know
We can’t act on what we don’t know
We won’t know until we search
We won’t search until we question
We don’t question, what we don’t measure

12. How Do We
Define Educational
Excellence?
General purpose of school is to transfer knowledge
and prepare young people to participate in
America’s democratic society
Legacy vs. Transformed

13. Legacy
Educational
System
You are a legacy educational system if
your school is……..
Based on a single standard body of knowledge and
how it is delivered
Allows for no deviation from the “standard”
Your primary stakeholder does not know how to
critically think

14. Transformed
Classroom
Critical Thinking Community
Defines Critical Thinking as mode of thinking in
which the student improves the quality of his or
her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing and
reconstructing the problem, content or problem

15. Transformed
Classroom
You are a transformational educational
system if your school
Look at the way you operate and identifies the way
you impede organizational success
Is able to explain in clear terms why you have a larger
role to play within the community
You can not be both legacy and transformed

16. Transformed
Classroom
Transformational strategies
Creating Consistency of Purpose
Cease dependence on mass teaching methods
Drive out fear

17. Transformed
Classroom
Transformational strategies
End the practice of rewarding students based
on numerical testing
Breakdown barriers between subject areas
Remove the barriers to pride of ownership on the
outcomes

18. Transformed
Classroom
Transformational strategies
Institute a rigorous program of education and
training
Take action
Implement a system of Plan-Do-Study-Act

19. The Transformed
Administration
The obstacles
It is not my job mindset
This is not right for a school
Tried it and it didn’t work
Too complex

20. The Transformed
Administration
New Ideas
ROWE Method
Purchasing based on total cost
Different framework or model

21. The Transformed
Administration
The SUCCESS Framework – State of Utah

22. How Do I
Implement
Six Sigma?
Go and See
Focus on the process not the people
Do It Now
Gain Knowledge
Educate and Train

23. How Do I
Implement
Six Sigma?
Breakdown silos
Poka Yoke the system
Drive out Fear
Continuous Improvement
Coach

24. Before Final
Thoughts
Any questions on how to
transform your schools
before our final point

25. Road to
Educational
Excellence

26. Road to
Educational
Excellence
Pillar 1: Voice of the Customer
Proactive vs. Reactive
Educational System Wide

27. Road to
Educational
Excellence
Pillar 2: Culture Specific
Total Buy In
Educational system mantra

28. Road to
Educational
Excellence
Pillar 2: Culture Specific

29. Road to
Educational
Excellence
Pillar 3: Continuous Process Improvement
Reduce Waste
Ask the 5 Why’s?
Create a standard of work

30. The Excellent
Educational System
Daniel Bloom
SPHR, Six Sigma Black Belt
Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Bloom & Associates, Inc.
PO Box 1233
Largo, FL 33779
(727) 581-6216
dan@dbaiconsulting.com
http://www.dbaiconsulting.com