The Excellent Education System : Using Six Sigma to Transform Schools

The Excellent Education System: Using Six Sigma to Transform Schools helps you discover and understand the technique of evidence-based learning and operations through which the modern school satisfies the need to increase the flow of successful students through the educational system from Kindergarten through Grade 12.

This book explains, in clear terms, what educational excellence means and the principles of process improvement. In addition, it gives your an introduction to the Six Sigma methodology. Included in the discussion are case studies of educational professionals who have found a new world centered in the evidence-based educational processes. These processes lead to many examples of dramatic turnarounds in some failing schools.

The author presents strategies and actions that you can use to improve schools such as those presented in the case studies. The Appendices provide a wide variety of tactical resources for implementation.

• Guide for implementation of process improvement.
• Roadmap for educational professionals on how to learn the language of business.
• Guide to discover what is needed to improve an organization.
• Understanding of the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) process and its implementation in the school environment.
• Ability to plan out an improvement project.

List of Acronyms
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction

Chapter 1 : What Do We Mean by Educational Excellence?
Chapter 2 : Where Did Six Sigma Come From?
Chapter 3 : What is Six Sigma?
Chapter 4 : Six Sigma Toolbox
Chapter 5 : In Plain Sight : Sources of Wastes  
Chapter 6 : Transforming the Educational System
Chapter 7 : TLS Continuum and the Classroom
Chapter 8 : TLS Continuum and the Administration
Chapter 9 : How Do I Implement the Same Program(s) in My School?
Chapter 10 : The Road to Educational Excellence

Appendix I : Studer Education Matrix
Appendix II : ISO 9000 Certified K-12 Schools in the United States
Appendix III : Baldrige Education Framework Award Winner
Appendix IV : Lean Tools and Six Sigma in Education
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index