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September 06, 2013
At the Start
At the start -- what reading readiness could be delivered
and received by the child first things first?
That thinking really needs to be freshly examined. As you know there are more than 2,000,000
children per year who start behind the reading requirements of the K-12 school
systems across the nation. Reading
readiness and age appropriate positive expectations are very important assets
or attributes mostly missing in each of these children. If you are effective and care about the
nation we leave our children you understand there is no choice to doing
anything other than first things first.
That needs to be found and plugged in.
The learning of order
and language based on a one size fits one relationship with an adult that
matches the child’s age 0-6 sensitivity of brain synaptic development would be
a huge boost to the local education and economic systems. Footing for K-12 Education Systems Simplicity is important when a district is trying to move the needle on 20-80% of the children starting. If a meaningful relationship between provider, age 0-6 child and parent is taking place early literacy is the result. Anything less than early literacy means the requirement has not been kept simple and primary by us. School districts are positioned exclusively with the capacity to simplify and solidify the requirements.
USA VALUES, LLC is working long odds with large business and
local school districts. Many say the
presentation of this simplicity to large business, governors, commissioners,
mayors, school boards, superintendants and others at the top looking down will
strike out without creating the footings for system change. See http://chardevelactivity.blogspot.com/
for business; and for government and education http://ulticharnetwork.blogspot.com/. However, somehow we will establish a
base in the grassroots with the effective citizen in pain to call on
education reform and turnaround to start with first things first right the
first time (FTFRTFT) with the most at risk for the highest return. This change already happened quickly in
business systems using these concepts because customers demanded higher quality.
Each and every successful turnaround
from a system that does not work includes a stop and pivot; finds the basic
first things first; does that without exception; and rebuilds everything around
that result and new capacity. Leadership
knows that not getting first things first done right the first time means
effectiveness is compromised. We owe
our most at risk kids the pivot to literacy is freedom, one size fits one that
existed back when our nation was formed and was 97% literate.
To be clear, as we approach the many in the grassroots
living the “national pain” with a revenue source for messaging, http://www.usavaluescoupons.com/article/pain/
, we will be saying that the system and its establishments know better. School districts have the money and expertise
to close the gap of what can be assuredly measured with observation and
demonstration starting kindergarten. We
hope to focus the nation on why simple could be the solution and how badly we
are missing the 100% goal expectation.
Our historical investments in “literacy is freedom” in the world are numerous
and generous. Leaderships to provide the
gift of literacy at home to 100% of our citizens are constrained by policy
compromise.
The following is foundational to seeing this simple
innovation and creating the new money to deliver 100% of the children.
·
http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/support-files/adaptedknowledge.pdf
; Constraint Management to Achieve Goals.
· http://www.usa-positive-expectations.com/support-files/adaptedknowledgemore.pdf More on Constraint Management to Achieve Goals.
In simple summary there are just five steps to continuous
improvement in high quality throughput.
1.
Identify the systems constraints (this is easy for the school district) 2. Decide how to exploit the systems constraints
3. Focus everything on the FTF system constraint plus one or two that are next
4. Break the FTFRTFT constraint with innovation drawn from a resource not constrained.
5. Move to the next, never stopping and also taking on the policies
There are three questions to answer with one new Socratic
attitude that creates proactivity and common sense cause-effect-cause ownership
of the problem at the district level.
1.
What to change (FTFRTFT) -See Covey -First Thing First
2.
What to change to (End in Mind) -See Covey -Start with the End in Mind
3.
How to cause the change ( Socratic) -See Covey -Be Proactive Internally and
Externally
a.
Understand Cause – Effect - Cause --See it as science. Constraints built around dependent processes,
variability and time lost being money lost is as predictable as water turning
to ice.
The Theory of Constraints (short book) by Eliyahu M.
Goldratt -1990; goes the entire distance to explain how to set the problem and
the solution at the level (school district) to impact the expectations of our
communities. Without literacy we are
without freedom and it is painful within the grassroots. He points out three languages of change
management and a need to respect each for the understanding of the wisdom it
delivers. 1. Language of the organization and its system/data;
2. Continuous improvement language of process and importantly the science of throughput.
3. Positive Expectation Emotion caused by effect-cause-effect Socratic thinking that places the problem with those who can solve it. The science part of the answer is always subject to an attitude that requires the power of an idea creator.
A Footing for the At Risk
Child This is the low cost pain
pill, not offered, because of vested externalities built on past
compromise. Early Reading Skills Delivered
for a Ringing Advantage (ERSD-RA) is always delivered one size fits one
when the process is dissected. Even a
classroom or child care effort breaks down to one size fits one to deliver the
basic knowledge as a gift. At this delivery
point the care provider can predict the outcome and the child reflected joy
when they know they get it. If a
meaningful relationship between provider, child and parent is taking place
early literacy is the result. Ready to
read starting kindergarten is easy to define from the child’s take away. The detail is here and does not require
testing, is all about demonstration and observation:
More footing for the System
Once the simplicity is observed the
complex alternatives preventing 100% delivery becomes a cloud evaporated. Look and you can find this happening every
day. The provider capacity to deliver
this far exceeds what can be placed in classrooms today or in the future and
our next tranche of at risk children should not be asked to wait. Districts will want to reach into the
community with quality requirements that can be met within a new six sigma focus
that is more than just finding a mentor for the child.
Level Process
outcome of reading readiness Ready
for kindergarten judged without testing
1 80%
of 100% 80%
2 80%
of 20% 16%
3 80%
of 4% 3.2%
4 80%
of .8% .64%
Total 99.84% Delivered to Kindergarten Ready
.16% Delivered Not Ready 160 per 100,000 Not Ready
1.6 per 1,000 Not Ready
Present Value of
Positive Expectations from Prek ERSD-RA; delivered FTFRTFT will impact expected
GDP Growth The top tier of this
issue (federal, state, foundations, and associations) are vested in compromise while
the basic population is simply not being prepared to carry its weight and a
nation that started with 97% literacy 240 years ago is at risk of failure. You
cannot afford to not examine the upside that literally will release our best
and brightest to be the world standard again. It will move our masses to graduate high
school or better. A short period is
needed to affect the projections of this on the economic future. The professional macro projection exists that
this change in quality and quantity of education would be enough to cause a 4%
base growth rate in GDP expectation versus our present 2% expectation. In the semi-macro sense this changes every local
societal problem being discussed to something more than the new normal of less
for each.
Best regards, Early Reading Skills Delivered - Ringing Advantages
Thomas Wolfgram
President- USA VALUES, LLC
mailto:tomwolfgram@usavalues-character.com
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