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Systems & Leadership

Understanding the Basics of Systems

System:

• n. A group of interacting, interrelated, or

interdependent elements forming a complex

• whole. An organism or body as a whole,

especially with regard to its vital processes or functions.

What's a process ss? Processe sses are all the related activities (parts) inside the system that work together to make it

• function. ... It's important that processe

sses are effective at what they do so that the system can run efficiently. Proc

• ces

esses es are the sequence of activities intended to produce a particular result.

The Aim Of The Education System

What do you think the aim of our system is?

The Aim Of The Education System

(Larry Lezotte & Ron Edmonds)

• Custodial Care
• Sort and Classify (Rank students)
• Teaching and Learning

What do we see in the system that is ‘custodial care’ in action?

What do we see in the system that is ‘custodial care’ in action?

• Busing
• Breakfast & Lunch
• Ears, Eyes, Nose, Throat exams
• School Nurses, Social workers, SRO’s, etc.
• After School programs (Latch-Key, Boys & Girls Club, etc.)
• Daily Attendance
• Sign in and Sign out

How do we ‘sort & select’ students?

How do we ‘sort & select’ students?

• Grades
• Honor roll
• GPA
• Valedictorian and Salutatorian
• Class rank
• Normed tests
• AP, IB, Honors Classes
• ACT
• Time is fixed, achievement is variable – The assembly line

What processes do we utilize for teaching & learning for students?

What processes do we utilize for teaching & learning for students?

• Lesson Plans
• Standards
• Competencies
• Teacher observations/evaluations
• Units
• Whole class instruction
• Individualized instruction

Is there evidence that the AIM of the Education System is changing?

Optimization vs. Sub optimization

What is the “aim” of the system?

Any process with an aim that is not aligned with the aim of the larger system is sub-optimized.

The results of a sub-optimized process can actually interfere with the ability of the larger system to achieve its aim.

What Does ”Systemic Change” Mean?

When the aim of the system changes, once optimized processes can become sub-

• ptimized.

The New Aim Of The Education System

Prepare EACH student to be successful when they leave us.

A Statistical Look At …

Driving To Work

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UCL LCL Mean Time Days UCL LCL * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Mean

Common Cause vs. Special Cause

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UCL LCL Mean Time Days UCL LCL * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Mean

What are the “things” that impact how long it takes you to get to work?

What are the 3 most important things in our current education system that you believe act as ‘System Controllers’ that prevent us from reaching our vision to make sure EACH student succeeds?

Weight Bearing Walls

• 1. Grade Levels
• 2. Students Assigned

Classrooms

• 3. Class Periods/Bell

Schedule

• 4. Courses/Curriculum
• 5. Textbooks

6. Paper And Pencil 7. ABC Grading 8. Report Cards 9. Learning Happens In School

• 10. Nine-Month School

year

Deming concluded that 94% of problems are system problems, not people problems.

Systems

“And yet most of the trouble businesses get into – in serving their customers and in general getting things done with dispatch – is directly attributable to the ugliness of their systems and processes. Over time, even a beautiful system tends to get elaborated and elaborated … and then more elaborated … with every

• change. Each one made of course, for a “good reason.”

Until the whole ugly, sloppy, inefficient, demoralizing, dehumanizing, mess makes everybody unhappy. We end up “serving the system” rather than having the system serve us.”

• Tom Peters

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain

Culture

“Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast” – Peter Drucker

Change Process

Change

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” – Eric Shinseki

Th Three T Tool

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• Con
• nsider
• Common Cause vs Special Cause
• statistical analysis of the situation
• Process Mapping
• identify the suspected process and map it.
• Intentionality on the New Aim
• create a focused behavior on the ‘New Aim’

As a result of today’s presentation, what has become clear to you?

• Dr. Mike Cook mcook@essdack.org