CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PROCESS MODEL

FIRST: PARTNERSHIP PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, including steps to:

• Recruit and organize education, business, family, and community stakeholders;
• Create a vision for the partnership—collaboratively brainstorm the vision and goals for student, school, and partnership success;
• Take stock based on the vision—establish baseline measures;
• Set up a steering committee to guide, manage, and monitor the partnership; and
• Collaboratively set and prioritize short- and long-term objectives—based on the partnership's vision, goals, and assessment.

SECOND: PARTNERSHIP IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT

• Create action plans or teams organized around priorities
• Develop action plans and time lines for activities, such as professional development, marketing, measurement, and reporting;
• Identify activities;
• Establish action teams focused on priorities; and
• Assign stakeholders to action teams.
• Implement action plans
• Action teams implement activities; and
• Action teams monitor the partnership management process.

THIRD: PARTNERSHIP MONITORING/EVALUATION AND FUTURE PLANNING

• Measure and report progress
• Baseline;
• Mid-year; and
• Guiding interventions and improvements.
• Review annual results and plan for the future
• Make decisions based on results;
• Allocate budget and resources; and
• Set up support.

This product provides guidance and support as follows:

• Template forms are accompanied by clear, concise directions.
• Stakeholders are given a series of key questions to consider as they plan and develop, implement and manage, and monitor/evaluate and plan the future of their collaborative effort; these questions are aligned with and complement each step of the continuous improvement process.
• Template forms are blank and can be adapted to meet individual partnership needs.

This product supplies additional information through a series of completed template forms. The completed templates:

• Provide brief snapshots of a variety of both large and small exemplary collaborative efforts in different academic and supplemental areas; and
• Illustrate how basic tools can record the guidance and monitoring of success through a continuous improvement process.

Continuous Improvement Model
Focus: Student Achievement/Success

I. Partnership Planning and Development

Recruit and Organize Education, Business, Family and Community Stakeholders

Create a Vision for Your Partnership

Take Stock Based on Partnership Vision

Set Up Steering Committee to Guide, Manage and Monitor Partnership

Collaboratively Set and Prioritize Short- and Long-Term Objectives

II. Partnership Implementation and Management	Focus on Student Achievement	III. Partnership Monitoring, Evaluation, and Future Planning
Create Action Plans and Teams Organized Around Priorities		Measure and Report Progress
Implement Action Plans		Review Annual Results and Plan for Future

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