There Is Another Way!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality Classroom, Second Edition
This training guide represents one way to look at the Baldrige criteria and use them to improve classroom systems. It is designed for classroom teachers at all levels as well as teachers in training. The approach described here has proven helpful to teachers all across the nation. Yet, true systemic change and, therefore, the ability to predict sustained, better learning results only comes when school administrators apply the Baldrige framework to the entire system. When teachers understand the Baldrige framework and how it applies to their work in the classroom, and systemic changes are made based on the criteria, everyone wins. We encourage administrators and other school leaders to use this training guide to learn about Baldrige-based quality classrooms so that they may lead and support teachers in their efforts to change.

A significant and not-to-be-discounted mantra of organizations seeking performance excellence is repeated cycles of improvement that require personal learning by the leader. Over the past six years, the authors have learned much from the many teachers and administrators who have come to learn the way forward. Their trust and openness has allowed the authors to grow (sometimes painfully) through listening and working tirelessly to make improvements to training activities so each could be successful. In rewriting this book, many of the changes have been inspired by these hardworking, well-meaning educators. One thing is clear, the notion of continuous improvement and personal learning means just that: the job is never done. There is always room for improvement, and listening is a key to learning.
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There Is Another Way!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality Classroom, Second Edition
This training guide represents one way to look at the Baldrige criteria and use them to improve classroom systems. It is designed for classroom teachers at all levels as well as teachers in training. The approach described here has proven helpful to teachers all across the nation. Yet, true systemic change and, therefore, the ability to predict sustained, better learning results only comes when school administrators apply the Baldrige framework to the entire system. When teachers understand the Baldrige framework and how it applies to their work in the classroom, and systemic changes are made based on the criteria, everyone wins. We encourage administrators and other school leaders to use this training guide to learn about Baldrige-based quality classrooms so that they may lead and support teachers in their efforts to change.

A significant and not-to-be-discounted mantra of organizations seeking performance excellence is repeated cycles of improvement that require personal learning by the leader. Over the past six years, the authors have learned much from the many teachers and administrators who have come to learn the way forward. Their trust and openness has allowed the authors to grow (sometimes painfully) through listening and working tirelessly to make improvements to training activities so each could be successful. In rewriting this book, many of the changes have been inspired by these hardworking, well-meaning educators. One thing is clear, the notion of continuous improvement and personal learning means just that: the job is never done. There is always room for improvement, and listening is a key to learning.
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There Is Another Way!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality Classroom, Second Edition

There Is Another Way!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality Classroom, Second Edition

There Is Another Way!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality Classroom, Second Edition

There Is Another Way!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality Classroom, Second Edition

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This training guide represents one way to look at the Baldrige criteria and use them to improve classroom systems. It is designed for classroom teachers at all levels as well as teachers in training. The approach described here has proven helpful to teachers all across the nation. Yet, true systemic change and, therefore, the ability to predict sustained, better learning results only comes when school administrators apply the Baldrige framework to the entire system. When teachers understand the Baldrige framework and how it applies to their work in the classroom, and systemic changes are made based on the criteria, everyone wins. We encourage administrators and other school leaders to use this training guide to learn about Baldrige-based quality classrooms so that they may lead and support teachers in their efforts to change.

A significant and not-to-be-discounted mantra of organizations seeking performance excellence is repeated cycles of improvement that require personal learning by the leader. Over the past six years, the authors have learned much from the many teachers and administrators who have come to learn the way forward. Their trust and openness has allowed the authors to grow (sometimes painfully) through listening and working tirelessly to make improvements to training activities so each could be successful. In rewriting this book, many of the changes have been inspired by these hardworking, well-meaning educators. One thing is clear, the notion of continuous improvement and personal learning means just that: the job is never done. There is always room for improvement, and listening is a key to learning.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940016063850
Publisher: ASQ Quality Press
Publication date: 01/07/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 11 MB
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About the Author

Margaret Byrnes, Managing Associate for QEA, is an internationally known expert on continuous improvement, quality practices, leadership coaching, and system alignment. She has served a Baldrige examiner and senior examiner. She has experience as a teacher, counselor, and administrator, and has training and coaching experience in schools across the nation. Co-author of The Quality Teacher, Quality Fusion, and (with Jeanne C. Baxter) The Principal's Leadership Counts!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality School, she has also written a children’s introductory book on quality, Dr. Deming and His Amazing Quality Idea.

Jeanne C. Baxter, Professor Emeritus of Leadership Education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago (NIU-C), is currently an examiner for Wisconsin’s Center for Performance Excellence (formerly the Wisconsin Forward Award), based on the Baldrige criteria. She is an expert on leadership, school-centered decision making, team building, and business-school partnerships. Co-author of Leadership Through Collaboration: Alternatives to the Hierarchy and The Principal's Leadership Counts!: Launch a Baldrige-Based Quality School, she served as a teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent in Illinois and chaired the Department of Leadership at NIU-C.
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