P – D – S – A What is it and why use it?

Continuous Improvement Cycle (PDSA)

PLANPLANIdentify improvement Identify improvement

opportunity, collect baseline opportunity, collect baseline data and plan the changedata and plan the change

DODOImplement the change Implement the change

and collect dataand collect data

STUDYSTUDYAnalyze the resultsAnalyze the results

ACTACTAdopt the change or Adopt the change or abandon the changeabandon the change

Monticello Elementary School

Tropic Isles Elementary910 students – 79% on f/r lunch

6 Steps to Improvement for the Classroom

PLAN

DO

STUDY

ACT

Do it all again!

Assessing the System

How are we doing? How do we know?Why are we here? What do we need to do well together? How will we know how we’re doing?

How will we work together to get better?What will we do differently?

What happened?

What are we going to do with what we learned?

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PLANWhat do students need to know and be able to do? Based on your data, what is

an area that needs to improve?Examples:

•Solve multi-digit addition and subtraction problems

•Identify chemical properties and reactions

•Count to 100

•Use correct capitalization and punctuation

•Analyze cause and event

Charlestown Elem.

Bainbridge Elem.

STUDENT ANALYSIS

DOWhat will we do to learn this?

•Identify key learning processes that will help the class learn (activities, strategies, etc.)•What is the teacher’s job?•What are the students’ jobs?

Try it out and see how it goes.

CLARIFY ACTION PLAN

Study

Study what happened.

•Look at your data

•Based on what you chose as your measure in the PLAN step, how did the class do?

•Are your results better?

•Is the class showing improvement?

•Do a plus/delta the learning that lead to the data

Cherry Hill Middle School

Bainbridge Elem.

ActWhat will you do with what you’ve learned?

•If you saw improvement, keep what’s working.

•If no improvement, create a new plan.

This part can become your DO for the next cycle.Act

We studied our results for: _____________

__ We improved.___ We did not improve.

Next week students will do the following things differently:

Next week the teacher will do the following things differently:

Classroom PDSA

PLAN

DO

STUDY

ACT

Do it all again!

1. Share test or finished product results.2. Determine how many students have

demonstrated mastery of all critical content. Post these data – by number of, not name!

3. Use a + to evaluate all learning opportunities.

4. Develop a plan for dealing with the ’s in the next learning cycle. Post the plan. Do the plan.

5. Study what happened.

6. Make improvements based on what was learned.

Workbook page 33Getting Started – The Work Core

Classroom & Student Learning Processes

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Once they have mastered the process, Goal Setting and PDSA can

also be used individually by students to achieve even greater success.

Once they have mastered the process, Goal Setting and PDSA can

also be used individually by students to achieve even greater success.

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