This week we talked more about the Plan Do Check Act model. While this model isn't exactly what we follow at my school, I still think there are some beneficial things to be learned from it. Our school is so small that we probably spend the same amount of time and money to make a school wide change as other schools/districts spend just on the Plan and Do phases. The model makes a lot of sense but it's just hard to scale down far enough to be useful for a school my size in every situation, especially for technology changes.
I agree that my school does not use the Plan, Do, Check, Act model as much as they should. We do have the larger size and spend the money to make significant changes. I think we do parts of the model, but because we are implementing so many changes every school year, we don't complete this process fully with any one change. I personally would rather see my school make one change and do it well, than try four changes in one year and have everyone do them halfway.
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