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Flowcharting School Improvement Processes

The Flowcharting School Processes Activity aims to help school staff understand current processes and identify necessary changes to improve results. Staff are guided to create flowcharts of their teaching processes, evaluate discrepancies between current and desired flows, and define steps for improvement. The activity typically takes less than an hour and includes materials like flowcharting symbols and student achievement data.

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Flowcharting School Improvement Processes

The Flowcharting School Processes Activity aims to help school staff understand current processes and identify necessary changes to improve results. Staff are guided to create flowcharts of their teaching processes, evaluate discrepancies between current and desired flows, and define steps for improvement. The activity typically takes less than an hour and includes materials like flowcharting symbols and student achievement data.

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Flowcharting School Processes Activity

Purpose The goal of this activity is to clarify what is being done now, so that
all staff can understand how they are getting current results, and to
determine what needs to change to get different results. A flowchart
allows everyone to see the major steps in a process, in sequence, and
then evaluate the difference between the theoretical and actual, or
actual and desired.
Target Audience School staff

Time Usually less than one hour (set aside enough time with staff to do
this well and to share).

Materials Copies of the flowcharting symbols, paper, and pencils for everyone;
chart pad paper, masking tape, tacks, markers. Student achievement
data if staff are not already aware of achievement strengths and
weaknesses.

Process Protocol 1. Ask staff to choose a process that needs to improve.


2. Direct them to build “the flow” of how they are teaching
students now, using the flowcharting tools.
3. Ask staff to:
o Define the beginning of the process being charted.
o Decide on the level of detail to be used.
o Determine the major steps in the process
and their sequence.
o Label each step in the process.
o Verify the flowchart. Is it clear?

4. Evaluate. Compare the charted version of the process to


the “desired” flow.
5. Create the desired flow after reviewing What do we want
out of this process?

Comments to There are variations of this activity that give staff a visual pathway
the Facilitator for understanding current processes. The first is to show the flow for
staff. The second is to show the work process flow for students. Let
staff determine which will work best for them.
Remember, if you want different results, you must change the
processes that create the results. One approach to assessing the
impact of school processes is to study the resulting flowcharts and
note the discrepancies between currently implemented processes
and desired processes. (Three examples, in Figures I1 through I3,
follow to help participants see the possibilities.)

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Flowcharting School Processes Activity

Figure 1
EXAMPLE GRADE 3 READING RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION (RtI)

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Flowcharting School Processes Activity

Figure 2
EXAMPLE HIGH SCHOOL PROCESS FLOWCHART

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Flowcharting School Processes Activity

Figure 3
THE PROCESS OF USING DATA IN
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES

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