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Continuous Improvement Choice: PDSA
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Mini-Lesson

Welcome!

👀 Video: Introduction to the day

✅ Activity:  Print and review the rubric, Section 3, Systematic Improvement. This session will focus on the PDSA cycle. You may also choose to complete the Data Folder module as well.

Continuous Improvement District Rubric  See categories 2, 3 & 4 on the rubric.

Compare your current practice to the rubric. Where do you fall?  What do you need to do to move toward the Accomplished category?

👀 Video:  PDSA in real life A conversation about how PDSA shows up in everyday life.

👀 Video:  The Heart of the PDSA

This video describes the components of the PDSA chart and how to implement it in your classroom.

✅ Activity:  Print the Planning Guide to create a PDSA for your next unit. Complete the PLAN and DO Sections today. Review the examples for ideas. Find a spot in your classroom and create the 4 quadrants. Review your upcoming lesson plans and add “Introduce PDSA.”  Use the notes from the planning guide to help you frame the conversation you will have with students to set your goals and strategies.

✅ Examples

👀 Watch this video introduction to the Examples. Review the elementary and secondary presentations for ideas.

👀 BONUS!  

Hear from a BISD Middle School Teacher on how to utilize PDSA. [5:41] AND Watch the PDSA  process being used to analyze data in a real-life Birdville ISD classroom. [9:43]

Follow along with your rubric and/or the Planning Guide.  

From the start until around 2:40 - you can see data analysis, student data folder use, plus/deltas, RX-prescriptions for change, and then the rest of the video, the teacher fields trouble spots and reteaches / shows examples.

Expected Action Items for Today

What are you doing today?

  • Watch the videos and complete the ACTIVITY action items.
  • Look through the examples for new ideas.Will you use a whiteboard? A bulletin board? Chart paper? Plastic sleeves? Where will you find these materials?
  • Print the Planning Guide and complete sections PLAN and DO. Find a spot in your room for your PDSA if you don’t already have one and post your PLAN and DO sections.  
  • Write in your lesson plan when and how you will discuss the PLAN and DO sections with students.  Also note when you will look at your results and work with students to complete STUDY, a PLUS/DELTA and ACT.

🎯 How will you know you’re successful today and beyond?

  • You learned something new about the PDSA and how it applies to the work you do in your classroom.
  •  You know where you are on the district’s Continuous Improvement rubric for Systematic Improvement  and have a plan to move to the next level.
  • You have your PDSA posted in your classroom and have a plan for sharing it with students included in your daily/weekly procedures.
  • You see the value and purpose in doing this and have gone out and talked to at least one colleague about what you learned.
  • Your students see the value in what they are learning and apply it to their own learning. When students are at this point, add student data folders to your classroom.

🔎 How will your administrator be able to see you were successful?

  • Your PDSA will be posted in your room in a kid-friendly location.
  • Students are able to tell a visitor to the classroom what they are learning and how it will be assessed.
  • Students are able to explain to you, parents and to each other why / how they learn best.
  •  Students are able to set class goals and keep track of progress towards academic achievement.

Other Resources

How can I learn more?

Look for the book: Continuous Classroom Improvement:  A teacher's guide to a better approach by Jim Shipley and Marilyn Wescott (2014). Many campus libraries have a copy.

Another great book:  There is Another Way! Launch a Baldrige-based quality classroom by Margaret Byrnes and Jeanne Baxter (2005).

The PDSA Timeline ←still in a 6 weeks format

The PDSA Graphic At-a-Glance

The PDSA Check List

✅ Make a set of Do Cards.  Use these as a guide and feel free to invent your own as well.

✅ Log into the Continuous Improvement Canvas Course at:

https://birdville.instructure.com/enroll/GC4CRG

 

The Learning Can Continue! 

Do you want to learn more and go deeper with this District Initiative?  There are people on your campus that can help you or can connect you with the right person.