Goal Setting is Often an Act of Desperation, Part III

For the past three months, I’ve been writing about organizational goal-setting. In Part I of the series, I proposed four conditions that organizations should understand prior to setting a goal. In Part II, I introduced the idea of “arbitrary and capricious” education goals and key data analysis lessons 1-5 . In this installment, I’ll outline key lessons 6-10 and then tie up the series in Part IV with an applied example from United Schools Network.

Learning to ImproveJohn DuesFebruary 22, 2022united schools network, school improvement, understanding variation, charter schools, traditional public schools, process behavior chart, continual improvement

Getting Better: Filtering Out the Noise

As schools consider how to restart in the fall, some are galvanizing their community to consider this an opportunity for reinvention, a way to rethink how we educate our young, while others simply want to get students back in the building and return as quickly and safely as possible to the normal that existed prior to the pandemic. Regardless of a school’s position on the spectrum from restart to reinvention, a more sophisticated manner in which to analyze student engagement and track efforts to improve engagement will be necessary.

Getting BetterBen PachtJuly 13, 2020COVID-19, coronavirus, remote learning, school closure, school performance institute, united schools network, process behavior chart, data analysis, PBC, improvement, improvement science, improvement in action, school improvement, thinking about improvement, w. edwards deming, mark graban, measures of success