LEADING SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINED SYSTEMIC IMPROVEMENT – Session 1

The Bay Area Geographic Leads Consortium (BAGLC), in partnership with WestEd, offers this session designed for organizational leaders who are seeking to turn small-scale improvement efforts into lasting, impactful results. In this hands-on introductory workshop, participants will explore how system design principles can accelerate and sustain meaningful change. Through an engaging Lego simulation, participants will learn how to align small, front-line changes to drive significant, system-wide improvements. This fun and insightful activity draws on a century of proven quality improvement practices from outside the education sector, offering valuable insights into overcoming the complex challenges school and district leaders face today.

Objectives

• Leaders will be introduced to principles, methods, and tools to (re)design three interconnected systems (work, improvement, management) to meet every student’s needs.
• Leaders will experience the power of aligning everyone’s efforts toward common goals while using a shared approach to improving their system as a whole.
• Leaders will learn approaches and tools to recognize and solve the systemic roots of pervasive problems of practice
• Leaders will reflect on the importance of establishing the organizational culture required for system transformation, including: respect for every individual, leading with humility and curiosity, applying servant leadership, and developing staff to see and solve problems they experience.