ASKED to do MORE with LESS?

Whats the Solution?

APQC Education CAN Help!

We are facing a $140,000,000 budget decit in Montgomery County Public Schools. Our work with APQC Education on Process and Performance Management has helped us know where and how to make intelligent budget cuts that minimize the negative impact on college and work readiness for our students. Dr. Jerry Weast Superintendent, Montgomery County Public Schools
Rockville, Maryland

WhatisAPQC'sProcessandPerformanceManagement?
Process and Performance Management (PPM) is a leadership approach that promotes effectiveness and efciency by linking process performance to outcomes. The key premise to this transformative methodology is that instructional and operational processes (e.g., teacher hiring, professional development, data utilization) must change in order to improve outcomes (e.g., graduation rates, instructional strategies, test scores, facilities expenses). At APQC, we fundamentally value outcome measures but believe that the Achilles heel of Public Education in the United States is the lack of focus on Process.

Join the APQC Nort

Project Selection
Identify burning platforms Project and team selection (4-5 areas of focus) Improve, design or redesign processes to drive results

Days 1 4
Four days of onsite action team application-based workshops DEFINE current processes, MEASURE their efficacy, ANALYZE root causes, IMPROVE the processes, and CONTROL the process to sustain the gains.

WE GUARANTEE YOUR SUCCESS!

When you purchase PPM Professional Development from APQC Education and select projects that focus on cost efciencies, we guarantee that you will nd cost-savings in your district that meet or exceed your investment with APQC. If you do not net your investment back in savings then we will return every penny that you invested in APQC's PPM Professional Development.

APQC Educations North Star initiative helped eleven pilot districts save over $17m in less than a year! Some specific examples of dramatic results:
Automated After-Hours Computer Shutdowns: Cost Savings of 13M Kilowatt hours worth $1,656,264 Seamless Integration of State and District Support for School and Classroom Improvement Initiatives Print Shop Process Changes: Cost Savings of $1,100,000 and 39,600 instructional hours Transportation Accident Prevention Program Improvement: Cost Savings of $264,000 so far Faster, more efcient transfer of breakthrough teaching and learning strategies

th Star Community!
Coaching and Mentoring
Team-based coaching calls focused on assisting the teams with solution implementation and the creation of control plans.

Wrap-Up
A one-day onsite meeting with APQC Education Facilitator to wrap-up all projects and highlight progress and results.

Additional Benefits:
Access to the APQC Education Knowledge Base North Star Community webinars best practice sharing across North Star Community districts Attendance at the annual APQC Education PPM Conference

For more information on how APQC Education can help you do more with less, please visit us online at www.apqceducationorg

People are Talking About APQC Education!

We are committed to delivering a quality education while transforming public education in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. We must transform our district by focusing on the processes that we employ, rather than only the desired product. In order to accomplish this task, we have turned to APQC and the North Star Project for guidance.

Dr. David Anthony Superintendent Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Houston, Texas

I have seen reforms come and go, programs start and stop, consultants and vendors y in and y out. After only a few training sessions, process management and improvement can be a long term program of continuous improvement across the district North Star has the potential to be transformational; bringing concerned leadership teams together to use and share critical action-oriented data to improve the manner in which schools and districts deliver the highest standards of teaching and learning to children. APQC tackles efciency and effectiveness. We need both.

Karlene McCormick-Lee Associate Superintendent, (Retired) Superintendents Schools Clark County School District Las Vegas, Nevada

APQC Education
Since 1977, the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), a nonprot research rm, has helped thousands of global organizations and over a hundred school districts increase productivity, quality, efciencies and effectiveness. APQQ Education supports the transformation of public education and school improvement through: Leadership Effectiveness Development Process and Performance Management Benchmarking Best Practices Organizational Assessment Join the Process Management revolution in Education! Learn more at www.apqceducation.org.

APQC reserves the right to cancel/reschedule any event.

2.7.2011

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