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Choosing Excellence Results:
The School District of Lee County
Choosing Excellence
is a unique blend of
the Sterling (Malcolm Baldrige) and
Glasser Quality School Models.
Tropic Isles Elementary (North Fort Myers,
Lee County, FL) has been using this blending
of programs for almost 10 years. Their
school grade points have increased for 8
straight years. They have been an A+
school for 7 years and they have made AYP
with all subgroups for 5 years. The
School District of Lee County is providing
the Choosing Excellence training, designed
by Bob Hoglund and Cindy McClung, for ALL of
its schools.
For more information on each:
Glasser
Sterling
Total Choosing Excellence Ratings
through January 15th, 2010
| Totals |
5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
Average |
4's / 5's |
% Success |
# of Scores |
| Content/Information |
721 |
190 |
33 |
4 |
1 |
4.7 |
911 |
96% |
949 |
| Handouts/Materials |
686 |
209 |
50 |
4 |
0 |
4.7 |
895 |
94% |
949 |
| Overall Quality |
726 |
196 |
25 |
2 |
0 |
4.7 |
922 |
97% |
949 |
| Presenters |
795 |
130 |
24 |
0 |
0 |
4.8 |
925 |
97% |
949 |
National Quality in Education
Conference October, 2009
Using Questions to Promote Critical
Thinking
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
Total |
8's/9's/10's |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
9 |
19 |
34 |
91% |
| 0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
3% |
6% |
9% |
26% |
56% |
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Please provide us with any ideas you might have to make the session more valuable to you.
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1. Thanks. This was awesome!
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2. I had the feeling he was trying to sell a product. I was hoping for something that was more authentic (i.e. classroom teacher that uses this system in his/her classroom).
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3. Looking forward to your visit at our school in a few weeks. Have used your questions with success…always good to get new info.
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4. Good job!
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5. Thanks for the sample questions.
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6. Thanks for including some interaction!
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7. Session was not what I thought it would be.
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8. Excellent strategies for building student ownership and accountability. Thanks!
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9. Enjoyed the presentation - Thank you! Slide transitions were too quick at times. Back and forth motion was distracting at times.
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10. Ideas good for initial set-up of rules & mission statements & problem solving sessions did not fit my grade level with styles presented but concepts fit.
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11. Activates that allowed us to engage/collaborate with others was great.
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12. It was extremely distracting to have slides missing from the handout b/c we wasted time looking to see if they were out of order (somewhere). We had 2 different packets, but neither had all of the info in order. I did like the questions.
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13. Thank you.
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14. Love it!
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Running a SMART Classroom
| Knowledge of subject. |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
Total |
8's/9's/10's |
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2 |
3 |
6 |
12 |
23 |
91% |
| 0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
9% |
13% |
26% |
52% |
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| 1. Very Good Session. A glossary of tools and their uses. |
| 2. Loved the idea of affinity at parent teacher conf.! |
| 3. I'd like to have a copy of this PowerPoint. Is that possible? |
| 4. I like that the handout is in larger than PowerPoint size…much more useful for referring to later. |
| 5. Thank you. |
| 6. Thank you - I enjoyed this session - |
| 7. Well done! :-) |
| 8. Telling us what the first step would be to start this in our own classroom. |
The Foundation for Lee County
Public Schools
The Foundation
for Lee County Public Schools has been instrumental
in the expansion of Choosing Excellence!
For the 3rd straight year, Cindy McClung and
I led a Choosing Excellence workshop for the
Collegium, sponsored by The Foundation for
Lee County Public Schools.
This five-day workshop was held on Captiva
Island for the Golden Apple recipients and
Teachers of Distinction. The combination of
Glasser Quality School and Sterling
(Baldrige) Framework of Quality provided an
effective complement of approaches to system
change and student learning.
This years group took off where the 2007 and
2008 groups ended and never looked
back. All of the participants came in
knowing that they had been recognized as
outstanding educators in a
District of 110+ schools, yet were still open
to learning and accepting challenges in order to
continuously improve.
This year, we were able to add some new
content and activities, while maintaining
the core of the Choosing Excellence
framework. We had a great week
of learning and laughter, which culminated
in outstanding,
creative review projects!
We are already looking forward to the 2010
group!
View the
Customer Feedback Form Results from the
Choosing Excellence Workshop in Captiva, FL,
June 2009.
Choosing Excellence
Choosing Excellence is
a unique blending of the
Glasser Quality School
Model
and the
Baldrige/Sterling Model of Quality.
We were charged with the task of condensing
the five-day Choosing Excellence summer
training for the Golden Apple recipients and
Teachers of Distinction into a three-day program.
So far, 24 Lee County Schools have each sent up
to 24 educators to the three-day session.
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12 Elementary Schools
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8 Middle Schools
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4 High Schools
The training is divided
into Elementary and Secondary groups. So
far, close to 600 have attended attended the
Choosing Excellence training.
As you can see from the table at the top of
this page, the
reviews have been very positive with over
90% of the participants reported that they
would like follow-up training. All
four
categories (Content/Information, Handout/Materials, Presenters, and Overall
Quality) have ratings of 93% to 97%. The
Information was rated as useful, the
presenters as effective and enjoyable and
the overall quality was high.
Carson Jr. High (Mesa, AZ)
August 3rd-5th, 2009
Complete Results
Carson is a 7th to 9th grade Jr. High.
All of the teachers will attend Educating
for Responsibility and Quality by the middle
of next school year (2010-11).
| Carson Group 1 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
Average |
4's / 5's |
% Success |
# of Scores |
| Handouts/Materials |
9 |
5 |
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4.6 |
14 |
100% |
14 |
| Content/Information |
8 |
6 |
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4.6 |
14 |
100% |
14 |
| Presenter |
9 |
5 |
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4.6 |
14 |
100% |
14 |
| Overall Quality |
9 |
4 |
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4.7 |
13 |
100% |
13 |
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