Using Positive Deviance to Discover Bright Spots

  • Room: Pre-Recorded
Tuesday, January 19, 2021: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Casey Blochowiak
Director of Curriculum and Learning
Menomonee Falls School District
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Scott Walter
Elementary School Principal
Menomonee Falls School District
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Suzanne Thomas
Director of Quality and Analytics
Menomonee Falls School District
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Tina Posnanski
Elementary School Principal
Menomonee Falls School District

Description

Every child deserves to be taught by our best teachers. However, despite every teacher’s best intentions, student performance varies. Learn how the School District of Menomonee Falls used embedded measures of key outcomes to discover positive deviants – those using uncommon and successful strategies, hidden in plain sight – and brought these strategies to scale. Through this application of the positive deviance improvement approach, literacy achievement in the classroom improved by 76% for students performing below grade level in the first year and by another 26% the second year.

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