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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
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