Dell Foundation Report - Excellent Examples Aligned with Strive Partners Efforts

The Dell Foundation just released an outstanding report on performance management and how it is beginning to be applied in education now that so much more data is available than in the past. The report provides three concrete examples of how cities are developing dashboards at the district and student level to improve instruction.

See the report at: http://www.msdf.org/Programs/Urban_Education/Performance_Management.aspx

We have several leading examples right here in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky:

• Northern Kentucky Success By 6 has led the charge with Northern Kentucky University to develop the early childhood dashboard. Newport and Covington can track students as soon as they enter partner early childhood programs. This data is then used to better serve student based on their developmental progress and range of services.

• Cincinnati Public Schools has developed a groundbreaking Learning Partner Dashboard that will connect early childhood data from the Hamilton County Success By 6 Innovations database to the district student dashboard, and postsecondary data. It will also include information from community partners so they can see what types of support students are receiving to drive improvement.

The Six Sigma process can be used by organizations and networks to use this data to do continuous improvement, or in Dell's terminology, performance management over the long term. The Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region is leading nationally in this arena!