Jumpstart School Improvement with 90 Day Plans

Dr. Brent Anderson

AVID Center

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AVID Center

Plainfield, IL

Program Manager

Refine the use of 90 day plans

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Who’s in the Room?��Dr. Brent Anderson

AVID Center – Program Manager

Live. Learn. Lead Consulting and Training

Aurora University Adjunct Faculty

25 years Principal and Teacher

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Introductions

If the doors had slid closed for your educator profession, what might the next set of doors have had in store for your professional journey? 

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Performance Objectives

• Deconstruct a current problem of practice using a 90-day plan model to identify the goal, strategy, and tactics that will provide a specific focus and guide movement toward achieving the goal
• Identify potential leading indicators to measure improvement toward your goal

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Agenda

The Problem with School Improvement Plans

Why 90 Days?

Goal – Strategy - Tactics

Scorecard/Evaluation

Maintaining Focus

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Essential Question

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Quote Analysis

Step 1: Read the quote

"One of the biggest threats to most yearly SIP plans is "life." And that's the first problem with annual planning.  Even the mundane day-to-day challenges we face can threaten to derail our tidy, predictable plans." – Dr. Robyn Jackson

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Step 2: Choose sole mate

Introduce yourself and use the sentence frame below to discuss the quote.

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I think/feel/believe that in her quote about _____, Jackson is saying that _____.

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Think about our EQ:  How can I leverage a 90-day plan model to address a current problem of practice and subsequently improve student outcomes?

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Quote Analysis

Step 3: Craft a Six-Word Story

The Six-Word Story helps distill the essence of an idea.

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Word Bank

opportunity reflect improve plan transform

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Step 4: Be Prepared to Share

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The Problem with SIP

According to Dr. Robyn Jackson

• Are easily derailed by “life”
• There’s no urgency
• Discount continuous learning

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Monday, February 1, 20XX

Square your pair, discuss your level of agreement with Dr. Jackson’s assertions.

Why 90 Days?

According to Dr. Robyn Jackson

• Allow agility and responsiveness to outside challenges
• Create space to infuse new learning
• Create opportunity to celebrate success
• Narrow the focus to avoid initiative overload

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What could it look like, sound like, feel like, to develop a 90-day plan?

Identifying the Right Problem

The Problem

• There are lots of open seats in our Dual Credit and AP sections. The students who enroll generally do well

5 Whys

• Look for the most likely systemic cause of the problem

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The Root Cause

• Look for the most likely systemic cause of the problem

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What’s Your Problem???

Quickwrite

As you think about your campus or district, what is one challenge that you would like to begin to address?

Use this time to develop your problem statement.

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Root Cause Analysis - 5 Whys

Take your problem statement

• Engage in the 5 Whys Protocol with others near you.
• Take good notes
• Identify the root cause

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Effective Plans

Tactic

• Specific action steps
• Data should inform changes in tactics over time.

Goal

• Student-focused learning/skill outcome
• What are the existing constraints that are making achieving the goal difficult?

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Strategy

• Action that will remove the biggest constraint.
• Multiple strategies will likely be used to address the constraints
• Focus on 1 at a time.

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Chicago Marathon

Tactic

(Action steps)

• Cross train
• Build endurance through long slow runs
• Explore hydration and nutrition
• Run ½ marathon in July (success measure)
• Increase mileage (weekly) distance (session) over time (success measure)

Goal

(Outcome)

• January 4, 2022, I wrote a goal stating that I wanted to complete the Chicago Marathon in 2022 (October 2022)

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• I had run 13.1 miles once.

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Strategy

(Action to remove biggest obstacle)

• Run consistently (3 days a week) from January through late September to build capacity to run at least 20 miles.
• Success measure: Be able to run 20 miles by September 25, 2022

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Results

2022 – Success

2023 – Wanted to run sub 4:00 hours

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Open Seats in Rigorous Courses

Tactic

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Goal

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• Increase the percentage of students taking and being successful (C or better) in a course of rigor (Dual Credit or AP) to 70% of all enrolled students by the end of the 24-25 academic year.

Strategy

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What’s the Goal???

Based on your root cause analysis:

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• Draft a potential student-focused goal

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What specific action, taken over the next 90 days, will aid in removing the current, largest constraint to achieving the goal?

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Questions to consider:

• Vision – What would it look like if we achieved this goal?
• Challenges – What is preventing us from achieving the goal?
• Opportunities – What strengths do we have that could help us achieve the goal?
• What actions might we take that bring us closer to achieving our vision or goal?

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Tactic

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Goal

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• Increase the percentage of students taking and being successful (C or better) in a course of rigor (Dual Credit or AP) to 70% of all enrolled students by the end of the 24-25 academic year.

Strategy

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• Develop staff buy-in around rigorous Tier 1 instruction

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What actions might we take that bring us closer to achieving our vision or goal?

• Talk to those near you
• Add to your notes

Data Rich-Information Poor

• 4^th quarter
• Game Clock: 2:03
• Home Team: 13 Away Team: 20
• 3^rd down, 2 yards to go
• Ball on the Away Team’s 8-yard line

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Lead and Lag Indicators

Lead Indicators

• “Performance measures that provide early signs for determining if an organization is on track for achieving a goal.” (Kowal & Ableidinger, 2011)
• “Leading indicators are data that can lead to a result, data over which one has some control” (Jackson, 2022)

Lag Indicators

• Data after the fact that is too late to change
• Results themselves

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• In 90 days are we going to see a marked change in data surrounding this goal?
• What could we be monitoring to better inform the work moving forward?
• As we consider the strategy how will we know if we are making progress?

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Open Seats in Rigorous Courses

Strategy

• Develop staff buy-in around rigorous Tier 1 instruction

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Tactic

• Develop a common definition of “rigor”
• Assess the current state of instruction against that definition
• Share results and develop a leadership team

Goal

• Increase the percentage of students taking and being successful (C or better) in a course of rigor (Dual Credit or AP) to 70% of all enrolled students by the end of the 24-25 academic year.

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Tactics - Action Plan

What initial thoughts do you have about potential lead indicators and action steps?

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Maintaining Focus

• How can you create a regular rhythm to this work?
• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly

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Your Next Steps

Based on what we did today, what are your next steps?

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• Send an email
• Calendar some time
• Share your contact info with someone near you as an accountability partner
• Voice memo

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Thank You

Dr. Brent Anderson

brent.j.anderson1@gmail.com

http://www.livelearnandlead.com

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