Strategic Use of Data for Improvement in the School District of Philadelphia

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Description of slide image: There is a diagram showing the process that leads to improved achievement. There are a number of items that feed into the process, including a continuous improvement process, benchmarking and formative evaluations and assessments. This process, plus summative evaluations and assessments, results in the output of improved achievement."

In the upper left is a small graphic labeled "Continuous Improvement PDSA"; this diagram has four boxes connected in a circle by arrows. The contents of the four boxes are:

• PLAN: Identify improvement opportunity, collect relevant data and plan the change
• DO: Implement the change; collect inprocess results data
• STUDY: Analyze the results
• ACT: Adopt the change, refine the change, or abandon the change

In the upper right is a representation of a generic bar chart; it is labeled "Benchmarking".

In the center is a box labeled "Process"; the items labeled Continuous Improvement PDSA and Benchmarking have arrows pointing to it, as do boxes labeled "Input" and "Formative Evaluations and Assessments (Leading)"

The Process box has an arrow pointing to a box labeled "Output". There is a box labeled "Summative Evaluations and Assessments (Lagging)" that also has an arrow pointing to the Output box.