+OK 13047 octets Received: from smtp00.nwnexus.com (smtp00.nwnexus.com [192.135.191.25]) by mail3.halcyon.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08602 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:18:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from sg23.sg23.com (mail.zeigler-florists.com [216.42.110.2]) by smtp00.nwnexus.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02446 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 16:18:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from oemcomputer (modempool26.sg23.com [216.42.110.42]) by sg23.sg23.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id YG8HJ2W5; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 19:23:04 -0500 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991204114918.00a189c0@mail.sg23.com> X-Sender: fredb001@mail.sg23.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 17:33:01 -0500 To: 71524.2205@compuserve.com From: Fred Battey Subject: National Alliance of Business and Baldrige Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Status: This is material from the National Alliance of Business (NAB) website. Fred Baldrige/Quality Management Introduction Initiatives Resources Profiles of Excellence Six Pilot Sites Selected! Get Involved--Sign Our Guestbook" ---------------------------------------- Quality Management/Baldrige Introduction The state response to the BiE-IN Invitation process reflects an enormous interest in BiE-IN and Baldrige-based education reform. The state selection process was a beneficial and highly competitive process. Of the 11 state/community leadership teams that applied, a total of 6 were selected by a peer review committee. The 6 pilot sites are: Maryland Indiana Illinois New Mexico Texas Ohio Member states have made a commitment to work together for two years to design and implement a strategy that rolls out the use of the Baldrige Criteria to improve student and system performance statewide. -------------------------------------- School Highlights Visit schools that are using Quality Principles in the Classroom Pinellas County, Florida One of the featured sites from the seventh JCPenney Leadership Institute series. North Carolina Business Committee for Education (NCBCE) North Carolina schools were also featured in the seventh JCPenney Leadership Institute series. Pittsford Central Schools Pittsford Central School District along with the community, is dedicated to developing the potential of each student. Brazosport Independent School District The Brazosport Independent School District has been honored with the 1998 Texas Quality Award. David Broder Writes about NAB and Baldrige in Education Jim Barlow Writes about NAB and Baldrige in Education Legislation: Expanding Baldrige Quality Criteria Into Education and Health Care The National Alliance of Business worked with other national business groups, education associations, and over 40 state quality award organizations encouraging Congress to expand the voluntary, Baldrige quality management criteria into the large nonprofit sectors of education and health care. Federal legislation was passed in 1998 expanding the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria into these sectors. This initiative required federal legislation to authorize the Baldrige office under the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop, expand, and disseminate the criteria. A total of $1.8 million was appropriated for the expansion in FY 1999. The objective "quality" management criteria used by education and health care institutions enable them to benefit from the best experience and models available nationwide for self-assessment, quality management procedures, continuous improvement, cost savings, customer satisfaction, and services of exceptional value. Apart from the award, participants gain valuable information about how to improve services to the public regularly through their institutions and agencies. A copy of the "1999 Education Criteria for Performance Excellence" published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is available on the Internet at: NIST Using Quality How Educators and Business Can Take Action Together Quality in the Classroom: How Students and Teachers Co-Manage the Learning Process Use this convenient order form to get a free copy of the video from the seventh JCPenney Leadership Institute. Virtually every community in this country is challenged to meet Goal One: success for all students. A necessary, but incredibly demanding goal. We know all too well what will happen if we fail. Our students will fail, too, in their ability to develop as productive, independent, and satisfied adults. But what will it take to succeed? Fortunately, some school districts are beginning to provide the answers. Inside these schools, teachers are creating classroom environments that develop lifelong learners. Other NAB Resources Using Quality to Redesign School Systems: The Cutting Edge of Common Sense Education Products Some Quality Reflections for the New Year ----------------------------------------------- The National Alliance of Business is engaged in the following initiatives to help school districts, parents, community leaders, and businesses raise student achievement. NAB and our partner, the American Productivity & Quality Center, are marshalling a business-led, nationwide campaign to accelerate state and local reform efforts by using the criteria of the National Baldrige Quality Award for performance excellence to improve student and system performance. The purpose is to align, focus, and transform education systems so they have the capacity to make continuous improvements. The campaign has a three-fold strategy: Forge a National Leadership Infrastructure of key national business and education leaders representing local educators, policymakers, and business partners. Create Consortia of State/Community Leadership Teams (representing the Governor, Legislature, K-12 Higher Education, the business community, the state quality award office, and several innovative school districts) committed to align their state/local education reform initiatives, using Baldrige, to raise student achievement. Provide valuable resources to expand, reinforce, and accelerate state and local initiatives to use Baldrige to improve student and system performance. Norman Rickard, President of Xerox Document Services Group, a 1997 Baldrige winner, and chair of NAB's Education Business Policy Committee, has agreed to chair the committee guiding this initiative. NAB has also completed a case study of the five-year North Carolina reform effort in which business, K-12 and higher education, and government leaders are using Baldrige as the basis of their aligned management system to improve student and system performance. As of December 1998, school districts representing over 65 percent of the students in North Carolina were participants in this effort led by the North Carolina Partnership in Excellence. NAB is partnering with the Council of the Great City Schools and the American Productivity and Quality Center in sponsoring a three- year benchmarking consortium for large urban school districts. School districts in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Houston, Miami/Dade, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Dayton, and Minneapolis, are participating. The objective is to support district leaders to work together in designing and then implementing a successful performance management system, enabling them to identify how individuals at all levels and responsibilities can contribute to increased student achievement. The districts will benchmark their own successful accountability practices as well as best-in-class processes from other sectors, which APQC and NAB will help to identify. NAB's role is to identify local business leaders who can support implementation and bridge best practices from business into education. Since 1990, the JCPenney Company and the National Alliance of Business have worked together to design, direct, and disseminate results from a comprehensive business/education partnership that supports successful implementation of school-based management. Based on lessons learned from the successful partnerships, such as those in Fort Worth, Texas, Sacramento, California, and Montgomery County, Maryland, the Alliance and JCPenney are currently conducting a series of leadership institutes via satellite designed to reach educators, parents, business and community leaders. If you would like to order the videos from previous teleconferences please click here. The last institute was May 6, 1999, and featured Azalea Elementary School in Pinellas County, Florida and Havelock High School in North Carolina. -------------------------------------- Quality Management/Baldrige Profiles of Excellence For years, business leaders have supported education reform with mixed results. Some communities, however, are recreating the learning environment to achieve the results we all want - better-educated students. Consider these examples: Florida: Pinellas County Schools Based on nine student achievement measures, Pinellas County Schools is the first and only school district in Florida to have won the state Quality Award, ranked number one in the state. Student test scores at Azalea Elementary School jumped 20 percent in just two years on a national test of basic skills. New York: Pittsford Central Schools Pittsford Central School District along with the community, is dedicated to developing the potential of each student. Pittsford Central Schools take responsibility for providing a safe and nurturing environment in which all students can learn. Pittsford Central School District provides experiences which maximize the student's academic, artistic, social, emotional, and physical development. They encourage students to develop positive self-esteem, respect for others, a capacity for productive participation in a global society, and a commitment to lifelong learning. North Carolina: Partnership for Excellence From 1996 through 1998, reading and math proficiencies increased in all 26 school districts that have used a Baldrige-based improvement strategy for three years or more. Texas: Brazosport Independent School District In 1991-92, barely half of minority and low-income students passed the state math test. After the introduction of quality-based reform, test scores rose steadily, and by 1997-98, over 90 percent of the same groups passed the test. As scores rise for all students, the achievement gap is narrowing across race and socioeconomic levels. Students achieved similar gains on writing and reading tests. Brazosport is the first education recipient of Texas' Baldrige-based quality award. These school systems are using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Criteria for Performance Excellence to improve student achievement. Teams of teachers, administrators, business leaders, parents, elected officials, and students are using Baldrige to transform the way education is delivered by focusing on Goal One - increased performance for all students. ------------------------------------------- Education Improvement Business Coalitions Charter Schools Making Academics Count Math and Science Quality Management/Baldrige School To Career Standards Teacher Quality Education Improvement Related Sites The George Lucas Educational Foundation E Smart The Chalk Board York County Business-Education Network US WEST Education Foudation - CHOICES Program The Talking Page Central Texas Tech Prep Consortium Indiana Cooperative Coordinators Association Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS) -------------------------------- The Business-Linked Charter Schools Project The National Alliance of Business, in collaboration with Public Policy Associates and Michigan Future, Inc., is examining the application of School-to-Work to the concept of charter schools through the project "Building Connections and Competencies: Ensuring Youth Success through Business-linked Charter Schools. Project Outcomes: Best Practice framework for showing range of options for joining business and charter schools. Model sites profiling effective practices among business-linked charter schools. Critical success factors in development and operation of business-linked charter schools Technical assistance materials Year One - 1998, identify model business-linked charter schools, develop how-to guide and web-based support materials. Year Two - 1999, launch additional outreach effort to promote and support business-linked charter schools. This project is funded by the US Department of Education. .