Annual Report of the State of the Cedar Rapids Community School

District

Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtNovember 4, 2005 – 8:00 a.m.

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

The Other NCLB •No calorie left behind

A quick look at other measures in the annual report

The biggest challenge and the heart of the problem…

•The opportunity/ excellence/ achievement gap

Grade 4 Reading - ITBS

White 77.1%

Black 47.2%

Asian 68%

Hispanic 66.7%

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Grade 4 Reading - ITBS(October 2004)

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Grade 11 Reading - ITBS

White80.4%

Black49.6%

Asian82.8%

Hispanic 73.1%

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Grade 11 Reading - ITBS(October 2004)

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

students

The World is Flat- Thomas

Friedman

•Numbers Gap•Education Gap•Ambition Gap

The “Boomerang” Generation(% of offspring returning home between the ages of 18-29)

•1990 – 32%•2000 – 60%•2005 – 65%

“Change or Die”- Fast Company

• Outsourcing• Off shoring• Uploading• Supply Chain

Squirm Factors…• Computer programmer…$70,000 U.S.;

$8,250 India; $3,000 China• Irish Americans going ‘home’• China – 350,000 student online

university• Options outside of the public school

Squirm Factors…

• Among adults aged 25-34, the U.S. ranks 9th among industrialized nations in the share of its population with at least a high school diploma; 7th in its share with a college degree

Squirm Factors…

• Although high school graduates are enrolling in college in higher numbers than in the past (70% nationally, compared to 50% or lower in past generations), the percentage who actually earn degrees in about the same as it was in 1950

Squirm Factors…

• In Asia, 60% of the college degrees conferred are in mathematics, science, and engineering, compared to just 5% in the U.S. China alone produces 360,000 engineers annually, compared to 60,000 in the U.S.

How do we make meaningful progress in a

large/complex system reacting to abundant and

varied pressure to improve?

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

2004-05 Develop awareness for World-Class Operation of the District; Complete an Iowa Recognition for Performance Excellence Self-Assessment

2005-06 (June 06) Apply for IRPE Tier 3 Bronze Award

2006-07 Implementation of IRPE feedback recommendations; Increase deployment of continuous improvement principles and processes

Timeline:Timeline:

2007-08 Apply for IRPE Tier 3 Silver Award

2008-09 Implementation of IRPE feedback recommendations; Increase deployment of continuous improvement principles and processes

2009-10 Apply for IRPE Tier 3 Gold Award

2010-11 Apply for Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

It’s About Alignment…

•Can we get everyone rowing in the same direction?

Dave’s Goals: 2005 - 06

• Goal 1- Diverse Workforce• Goal 2- Continuous

Improvement• Goal 3- Compensation• Goal 4- Enrollment/Facility

Study

Drilling down: Goal 1 Action Plan

Description of Activity Research & Rationale Results Funding TimelinePersons Impacted

Drilling Down: Dave’s Goal 2 – 05 - 06

Drilling Down: Dave’s Goal 2 – 05 - 06

•During the 2005-06 school year, a plan to continue the deployment of continuous improvement efforts in the CRCSD will be formalized.

One-year targets:One-year targets:

Dave’s Goal 2 – 05-06Dave’s Goal 2 – 05-06

•Continuous Improvement Outcomes

One-year targets:One-year targets:

District & Cabinet School & Departments Classroom Student

Dave’s Goal 2 – 05-06 (265/49)Dave’s Goal 2 – 05-06 (265/49)

Action Research Deployment Team Workshops

•Elementary: – 129 individuals representing 24 teams

•-Middle School: – 42 individuals representing 7 teams

•-High School: – 42 individuals representing 4 teams

•-Support Services: – 52 individuals representing 14 teams

One-year targets:One-year targets:

Monitoring Monitoring Progress…Progress…

–Keeping track of ourselves (District balanced scorecard)

Monitoring Monitoring Progress…Progress…

–What are our stakeholders telling us?

Do you enjoy reading to learn?

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?

Administrators Administrators FeedbackFeedback• 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 FeedbackStaff Feedback

District Focus:StronglyAgree

Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree

Regarding District direction… I believe the District is

heading in the right direction.

41% 57% 2% 0%

Regarding District direction… I believe the District has

identified the right vision, mission, goals, core values and guiding behavior which I support.

43% 55% 2% 0%

98%98%

98%98%

“We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us.

We already know more than we need to know to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven’t so far.”

“We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us.

We already know more than we need to know to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven’t so far.”

-Ron Edmunds-Ron Edmunds

The only thing more exciting than our past is our future!

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Annual Report of the State of the Cedar Rapids Community School

District

Cedar Rapids Museum of ArtNovember 4, 2005 – 8:00 a.m.