Creating a Culture for Continuous Improvement

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce school principals, district staff, teachers, and other practitioners to a systems-based approach to promoting sustainable change. Candidates study the core principles of program evaluation and monitoring and continuous improvement, which include the following: (1) change takes time and involves a collective effort, (2) change is context-specific, and (3) focusing on a series of small changes, combined with ongoing evidence collection and review, can lead to large-scale change. In addition, candidates learn about and implement the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle of continuous improvement to address a wide range of practice problems.