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Partnership Update

January 6, 2025

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About Studer Education

  • Formed in 2010
  • 20 experienced education leaders and organizational culture experts (and growing)
  • Certified over 3,000 teachers

Highlights

We work with education organizations to build evidence-based practices that improve outcomes for students, teachers, employees and leaders.

Expertise

  • Continuous Improvement
  • Cultural Transformation
  • Effective Teaching and Learning
  • Leadership Development
  • Organizational Excellence
  • Strategy and Innovation
  • Systems Alignment
  • Work with 200+ district partners, serving over 1.5M students
  • 5 South Dakota districts

Proud Partners

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Session Outcomes

1. Why is Douglas School District partnering with Studer Education?

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2. What are the goals our partnership?

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3. How are we demonstrating impact?

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4. Questions and feedback

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People First Organizations

Leaders go first and role model the desired behaviors.

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Illustration from Corporate Rebels depicting research by Yoshida, S (1989)

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What are the goals of our in partnership in 2024-2025?

  • Develop the leadership team to advance systems and structures of aligned, people first organizations:
    • Reward and Recognition
    • Leader Rounding
    • Service Excellence
    • Spring 2025: Cascading Communication, Avoiding We/They Language, and Stay Interviews

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  • Develop and implement an organizational scorecard process.

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Aligning For Impact

FROM RANDOM ACTS OF IMPROVEMENT

TO ALIGNED ACTS OF IMPROVEMENT

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Why do we use scorecards?

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  • An improvement tool aligned to our strategic plan pillars.

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  • Keeps us focused on the measures that matter most.

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  • Celebrate what is working to spread and scale.

  • Quickly identify where adjustments are needed.

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A scorecard defines success in your priority areas

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District Strategic Plan

District Scorecard

School and Department Scorecards

Teacher Team Goals

Classroom Goals

Individual Student Goals

Line of Sight

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What is our development process ?

Large number of metrics we could use.

Refinement of metrics that “matter” most.

Tightening of metrics that “matter” most.

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Individual Students / Team members Goals

Classroom/Grade Level/Team

School/Department Scorecard

District Scorecard

Districtwide Attendance Rate

School 1

Classroom A

Student/Team member

Student/Team member

Classroom B

School 2

Classroom A

How are the District metrics determined?

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Defining what success looks like for Douglas School District in our 4 Strategic Priorities

Note: These metrics are DRAFT and serve as an example of possible metrics.

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January/

February

August/

September

June

Board Report:

Mid-Year Report

Board Report:

Annual Goal Setting

Board Report:

Year End Report

November/

December

March/

April

45-day leadership progress

towards annual goals on

division/school scorecards

45-day leadership progress

towards annual goals on

division/school scorecards

Recommended Scorecard Reporting Cadence

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Stories of Impact from Leaders

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What questions or feedback do you have for us?

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