Facts, Issues, Future State of the Schools Sunrise Rotary Elmcrest Country Club September 15, 2005 7:00 a.m. State of the Schools

Facts

Quick Facts 121 square miles 2,700 employees 17,500 students 33 attendance sites $170 million budget 56 formal school/business partnerships Iowa’s second largest school district

Did you know?? IASBO and GFOA Certificates of Excellence in Financial Reporting (10 consecutive years) Only school district in Iowa initiating E-procurement processes Moving to geo-mapping of transportation One of two school districts in the nation involved in the “Switch” Health/Nutrition Study

Did you know?? Washington and Kennedy in the top 100 high schools in the nation for AP exams CR high school students score significantly above Iowa and nation averages on the ACT Richard Threlkeld (25 year bureau chief for CBS news) and Patricia Robinson (nationally known poet) attended Kenwood School

Did you know?? Ashton Kutcher is a Franklin School alum. Money Magazine - Cedar Rapids is among the 100 best places to live (education, crime rank) Grant Wood was a teacher at McKinley Junior High and old Washington High School

ISSUES

ITBS/ITED SINA Schools Watch List Schools Sanctions Opportunities for all students

The Other NCLB No calorie left behind

Global Factors Competition Resources Economy Civility

How do we make meaningful progress in a large system with areas in need of improvement?

(Read this first ) Does this look like quality work (Read this first ) Does this look like quality work? What if you were a customer of this warehouse?

(Read this first ) This certainly is creative. , but is it quality (Read this first ) This certainly is creative! , but is it quality? Would you be calling this company to work on your power lines? --> In order to achieve excellence, everyone within the organization needs to be able to define, recongize and produce quality.

(Read this first ) Is this what our customer satisfaction was like? --> In order to determine customer satisfaction, it was necessary for us to identify who are customers and stakeholders were and then use some quality tools to measure their satisfaction levels. --> We did not want to portray this type of customer satisfaction (point to slide)

FUTURE

Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence A helpful framework… Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence

The 7 Baldrige Categories Leadership Strategic Planning Student/Stakeholder Focus Information and Analysis Human Resource Focus Process Management Performance Results

It’s About Alignment! Can we get everyone rowing in the same direction?

Random Acts of Improvement Aim of the Organization Goals and Measures Goals and Measures Aim of the Organization Aligned Acts of Improvement

Question #1 To provide the highest quality education to all CRCSD students, what challenges will the district have to address as it plans for the future?

Do you enjoy reading to learn?

Monitoring Progress… What do our stakeholders think about the direction we are heading?

Administrators Feedback I support the District’s continuous improvement efforts… YES (99%) NEED CLARIFICATION (1%) NO (0%) The pace of our continuous improvement effort is… Just Right (94%) Too Fast (5%) Too Slow (1%)

Staff Feedback 98% 98% District Focus: Strongly Agree Disagree Regarding District direction… I believe the District is heading in the right direction. 41% 57% 2% 0% I believe the District has identified the right vision, mission, goals, core values and guiding behavior which I support. 43% 55% 98% 98%

The only thing more exciting than our past is our future The only thing more exciting than our past is our future! Visit us online www.cr.k12.ia.us

Facts, Issues, Future State of the Schools Sunrise Rotary Elmcrest Country Club September 15, 2005 7:00 a.m. State of the Schools