Defining the Problem
When staff members from John Cline and West Side gathered together, teachers and paraprofessionals sat in groups that intentionally mixed buildings, grade levels, and job responsibilities. Using the Imagineering tool, staff members brainstormed responses to the question, “Assuming that we are doing our part to empower students for the future, what would the key characteristics of our school be?” The work began silently, and ideas generated were each written on a separate sticky note. Table groups then worked collaboratively using the Affinity Diagram tool to find common themes in the ideas generated at their table. Though many ideas were generated, staff members identified which of those ideas to prioritize using the Hot Dot tool; a list of six rose to the top.
Table groups then completed Affinity Diagrams for these six topics. The topic of Building and Physical Environment was quickly identified as having the greatest impact of the six. Mr. Lane came to a meeting to share an update on the work currently happening at the district level. Because we as a staff wouldn’t be able to impact that process much in the next ninety days, we tabled the topic and chose to focus our efforts on the topic with the second highest rated impact, Collaboration and Leadership. Establishing the Aim Once Collaboration and Leadership was identified, we worked in building-specific table groups to create a Bone Diagram mapping out the Current State and Desired State of Collaboration and Leadership at John Cline Elementary and West Side Early Childhood Center. Using this as our starting point, we broke the topic into four sub-strands: School Board and Superintendent, District Administration Team, TLC Team (Instructional Coaches, Collaborative Teachers, Mentor Teachers, PLC Leads, Learner Advocates), and WSECC/JCE Staff. We identified actionable steps that could be taken by each of the four groups to help us move closer to our Desired State. Ideas generated for the School Board & Superintendent, the District Admin. Team, and the TLC Team were shared with Mr. Lane and will be shared with others, and we are now working to identify specific actions we can commit to take as staff members to move closer to our Desired State. Our next step is to look at the ideas we’ve generated using the Potential Impact Matrix. We will use the Poll Everywhere online tool to anonymously rank the Potential Impact and the Do-ability of each of the ideas generated. The room’s votes will be anonymously collected and projected in real-time for the staff to see. Using this information, we’ll identify the work we can commit to and move into the DO phase of the PDSA cycle!
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