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January 2020 Newsletter

Our January Status Quo Breaker is...
Laura Fefchak, Special Education Director, is being recognized as our January Status Quo Breaker! Laura is engaging the DMPS Collaborative Problem Solving Process to examine our systems of support for social emotional learning and student behavior. Gathering voice of the customer data has been of utmost importance. Student focus groups are helping redesign our support structures for social emotional learning and student behavior. Great work!

The Status Quo Breaker is a monthly traveling trophy recognition of an employee for their contribution to process improvement, to say thank you for being Lean and/or for helping make DMPS Leaner. Do you have someone you want to nominate for the Status Quo Breaker? Contact Emma Knapp with their name and a short description explaining why you want to recognize them.
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Decision Making Matrix
During Drake's Continual Improvement virtual learning on January 21, the presenter, a secondary principal, shared the matrix to the right on decision making. She utilizes this system with her school leadership team and is transparent up front which decision making is needed for the topic at hand.

This is also applicable when examining decision points within a process. What decisions can be made independently so the process can keep moving? What actually needs an leader approval? When must the process pause to allow for whole team decisions?

Shout Outs!

Thank you Kellie Hanlon, Vicky Bennett and Margi Neve for brainstorming on a process improvement!
Thank you David Johns for training our CI department on the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People!

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