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Region 9 Schools

High Reliability Schools Concepts

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High Reliability Organizations

  • Organizations that are continually in pursuit of top performance.
  • Recognize the interrelatedness of their systems of operation.
  • Assess the effectiveness of their systems to ensure they are working.
  • Monitor for errors in their operation to keep those errors from becoming system failures.

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High Reliability = Integrity

  • Integrity is about more than just morality.
  • It means being whole and undivided.
  • It is the ethical accuracy of our actions.
  • Getting The Right Stuff Done!!!

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High Reliability Schools = Commitment��It is a way a district or school chooses to live.

High reliability means being accountable for ensuring that the programs, interventions, and processes you are using to address the leading indicators are in fact working.

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High Reliability Schools

  • Offers simultaneous improvement for the school as an organization...

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  • As well as the individual professional who work at the school...

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  • It is an interdependent relationship.

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Leading Indicators

  • Specific conditions in each level a school needs to establish and sustain to enhance the ability to be effective in cultivating learning.

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  • Leading Indicators tell a school what to think about ...
  • Not how to think ... that is the school’s decision.

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Common Vocabulary of Practice

  • Leading Indicators – common language for:
  • Boards of Education
  • District level Administrators
  • Campus level Administrators
  • Teachers
  • All support staff

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