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Roundtable #8—Using The Tools Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Essential Question for The Intensive

How can we create strategic focus in the coming school year?

Our Agenda for Today

• Using the Tools
• Check-ins
• Q&A

Tools To Use

• Theory of Action
• HEAT Inquiry Cycle
• Backlog
• Big Indicators & Milestones

What We’ll Cover for Each Tool

• Recap
• When to use it
• How to share it with your team
• Tips

Theory of Action: Recap

• A theory of action is a set of cause-

and-effect relationships that explains how something works.

• If…then..and if that happens, then…
• Conditions for success
• Unintended consequences

Theory of Action: When to Use

• Constantly!
• Debriefing classroom

visits

• Teacher planning
• Improvement planning
• Debriefing

improvement efforts

Theory of Action: Sharing with Staff

• Rationale—don’t stop at what and why
• Use the question “How is that

supposed to work?”

• Use in every PD and decision-making

setting

Theory of Action: Tips

• Focus people on the essential “how”

chain

• Separate conditions for success from

the core logic

• Replace “why” justifications with “how”

explanations

HEAT Inquiry Cycle: Recap

• 4 steps:

– Hypothesize – Experiment – Analyze – Talk

• Focus on learning (how it

works), not results (whether it works)

HEAT Inquiry Cycle: When to Use

• Before making something a mandate
• Before implementing a Bulk change
• While implementing a Lean change
• When restarting a stalled change

HEAT Inquiry Cycle: Sharing with Staff

• Practice with individuals
• Practice with teams
• Use to plan your coaching

conversations

• Formally teach as an improvement

process

HEAT Inquiry Cycle: Tips

• Keep the cycles short
• Value qualitative data, not just

numbers

• Focus on learning
• Value failed experiments

Backlog: Recap

• Prioritized list of work
• Move top item to a

specific meeting agenda to get it done

• Re-prioritize any time
• Respect capacity

Backlog: When to Use

• Keep backlogs for each meeting or

team

• Re-prioritize when preparing an agenda
• Move top item(s) to agenda

Backlog: Sharing with Staff

• Teach the elevator concept directly
• There’s always more work than time
• “Parking lot” issues and mandates
• Prioritize together when you can

Backlog: Tips

• Keep in Google Keep
• Share with appropriate staff
• Look for “chutes & ladders”

Big Indicators & Milestones: Recap

• 12-month milestones—

what accomplishment would mean real progress toward what we ultimately care about?

• Big Indicator—stable,

quantitative measure

Big Indicators & Milestones: When to Use

• Planning major initiatives
• “Are we making a difference in X?”
• Avoiding sprawl & creating focus

Big Indicators & Milestones: Sharing

• District level strategic planning
• School-level Bulk change planning

Big Indicators & Milestones: Tips

• Use an existing quantitative data

source

• Create it if you don’t have one—plan

ahead

• Be open to other ways of measuring

Roundtable Question

• 1. What improvement work are you

focused on in the coming year?

• 2. What tools are you thinking about

using to facilitate it?

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Assignments—Module 7

• Freight Elevators
• Meeting Backlogs
• Backlog

Management Tool Setup

Assignments—Module 1

• Initiative Inventory:

Your School’s Work In Progress

• Leadership Vision:

Finding Your True North

• Vision Plan: Setting 4

Types of Goals

Assignments—Module 2

• Staff Performance

Rundown: Precheck

• vs. Enhanced

Screening

• Inventory: Staff

Readiness for Change

Assignments—Module 3

• Curriculum,

Instruction, and Assessment Approaches Inventory

• Instructional Theory
• f Action

Assignments—Module 4

• Hat Rack—Major

Roles & Areas of Responsibility

• Big Levers: How I

Impact Student Learning

• Leadership ToA:

Finding the Nuance

Assignments—Module 5

• Lean vs Bulk

Change Inventory

• Early Adopter

Consultation Plan

• HEAT Inquiry Cycle

Plan

• Improvement ToA