Results
By
Design
Simple not Easy
The Journey from Good to
Great
Getting Student Results is
Simple, Just not Easy…
All you have to do is:
– Find out what kids know
– Find out what kids do not know
– Do something(teach them) about what they
do not know
What are the Simple Things
We Need to Do?
All we have to do is:
– Apply Good to Great
– Plan, Teach and Assess at the Student Expectation
Level ( the SEL) of the TEKS
– This is another way to say we are focused on deep
alignment between the written, taught, and tested
curriculum
– Lead for deep implementation
Good to Great Study
• Companies selected for study had stock
returns 6.9 times higher than general
market
• Then, the company had to have 15-year
cumulative stock returns at or below
general market, but
• Definite transition point where they were 3
times over the market over the next 15
years
Good-to Great Companies
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Abbott
Circuit City
Fannie Mae
Gillette
Kimberly-Clark
Kroger
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Nucor
Philip Morris
Pitney Bowes
Walgreens
Wells Fargo
Comparison Companies
• Collins compared Great companies to
similar companies who failed to make the
leap to greatness
• His researchers identified what was
unique to the Great Companies and what
was missing in the comparison companies
• The “what was missing” formed the
foundation principles of Good to Great
Foundation Principles
• Flywheel Effect
• Culture of Discipline
• First Who, then What
• Confront the Brutal
Facts (Stockdale
Paradox)
• Hedgehog Concept
2 Key Principles from our
Experience
• Culture of Discipline—Leadership
• Hedgehog Concept—At what will we be
the best in the world?
Culture of Discipline
• Stage I—Disciplined People
• Stage II—Disciplined Thought
• Stage III—Disciplined Action
Levels of Leadership
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Level 5 Executive
Level 4 Effective Leader
Level 3 Competent Manager
Level 2 Competent Manager
Level 1 Highly Capable Individual
Leading a District-Wide
Implementation
• Ambitious for the organization
• Ferocious will to make it happen
Hedgehog Concept
• What are you passionate about?
• What can you do better than anyone else
in the world?
• How do you deploy your resources to
support what the research says has the
greatest impact on student achievement?
In Suburban ISD, we believed
that:
• We would be the best in the world at using
data to drive instruction.
• We cannot be all things to all people, but
we can focus on the learning and make
informed decisions about what the
learners know and do not know.
The Results Equation
R=L+D+A
• Leadership
• Data
• Action
Leadership
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Build the Case
Determine Your Targets
Set Standards of Quality
Announce Plan for Accountability
Give Energy to the Initiative
Building the Case
• Determine the audience
• Differentiate the message as needed
• Consult the research (internal and external) to
support the job as “doable”
• Articulate the student benefits
• Make connections to personal mission (why
teachers teach)
• Make connections to organizational mission
(why our school exists)
Determine Your Targets
• Create plans to build your case to the
appropriate audience in a frequent and
consistent manner
• Create plans to keep the case focused
and on everyone’s radar screen
Set Standards of Quality
• Determine measures to be used to
document success along the way
• Search for early examples of success and
hold up these staff members as positive
examples
Give Energy to the Initiative
• Talk about it …Talk about it…Talk about it…-Never let your team forget that it is a priority to
you as a leader
• Identify your current group of champions for this
initiative
• Delegate responsibility to other leaders to
monitor and intervene where appropriate
• Recognize your trendsetters and determine the
best practices that have contributed to his/her
success
• Standardize the implementation of these
practices
Data↔Action Continuum
• Do we take action without considering the
data?
• Do we take action with a cursory
understanding of the data?
• Do we take action that is driven by the
data?
• Do we differentiate our actions based on
the data?
Data and Action
• Set the Stage with Leadership
• Data Analysis at Every Level of the
Organization
• Data Married to Action
• Interventions
– Student
– Teacher
Data Meeting
• Analysis using the Assessment Reports
• What does the data mean?
• What are the leadership implications?
• What interventions will be established?
Results
By
Design
Simple not Easy
The Journey from Good to
Great