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No other school in Ohio in recent years has more visitors than Martins Ferry. Over 1500 visitors in the year! WHY is that?  The answer is quite simple; they had to see if it is TRUE

  • Is it TRUE that this district in the high poverty area of the Ohio Valley has made dramatic jumps in student achievement and Proficiency Test scores in less than 18 months?  
  • Is it TRUE that they went from the lowest school district in their region on Proficiency Test scores to the best in less than a year?  “From Worst To First”

Those visitors see this and now you have the opportunity to see it also and LEARN HOW TO DUPLICATE their success.

This Workshop is definitely  “NOT” a “Sit-And-Git”!  It is high energy, interactive, and very rewarding!  The day will focus upon “What Works” and “What Is Working” in Schools and Classrooms!

This one-day event will have a more positive impact upon your entire school year, student achievement, and school discipline and school climate than anything else!

Come as a Team…Teachers, Administrators, Tutors, everyone will leave with something useful. 

This is a great opportunity for you and your colleagues to learn how to “close the gap” in student achievement with an integrated approach that involves:

  • …Quality tools and techniques used to sustain and support your improvement efforts
  • …The use of data as tools to identify improvement opportunities.

 Successful schools use data to drive decision-making that is aligned with the district’s vision and mission.  After spending the day with the team from Martins Ferry, you will look at you school/classroom with new eyes and find those elements that, if aligned, can make all the difference.   As they have done for over two years at workshops and the Quality Improvement Academy, team Martins Ferry will provide clear and concrete examples to teachers and administrators that will able you to see how the journey to “effectiveness” is sensible and achievable!

At all workshops, participants will:

  • Gain a better understanding of what Quality processes are
  • Gain an understanding of when, how and where to implement the use of Quality tools in the classroom and the building
  • Be able to create student Data Folders for everyday classroom usage
  • Be able to create effective classroom and building goals
  • Be able to create an effective classroom and building mission statement
  • Walk away with useable ideas for implementing the Quality Process immediately
  • Understand what Quality tools are and how to utilize them to improve effectiveness.
  • Receive a complete book of replicable tools to utilize in classroom and building

There are 3 Separate and Distinctive ALL-Day Workshops Available For You:

Phase I Elementary Focus Workshop:

This is a workshop that provides a total overview of the Quality Process, how to develop in your classroom/ building and how to a get results IMMEDIATELY!

This is NOT a “Sit-AND-GIT” Workshop!  You will participate in discussions with practicing teachers/administrators who have used and created innovative strategies aimed at improving student performance in all areas of the elementary. You will learn how schools utilizing the Quality Process successfully transfer the responsibility of learning from the teacher to the student.

Phase II Elementary Focus Workshop

This is a workshop that provides a total overview of the Quality Process, how to utilize the PDSA Cycle (Plan, Do, Study, Adjust) as you Implement the Quality Process

A more in depth exposure to the Quality Tools to Drive Instruction Process. Participants in this workshop will be exposed to the process to determine the “3-Big Rocks” of a building or classroom. The development of student data folders in line with the classroom/building Goals and the missing points of the continuous improvement process.

Phase I Middle School Focus Workshop

This workshop is an overview of the quality Process and how to successfully implement into the Middle School.

You will learn the process to change attitudes of Middle School Students, tools/activities that produce dramatic changes in the overall climate of the Middle School while improving student achievement. This workshop, like the others, is NOT a “sit-and-git”. Prepare for interaction, activity, and production!

Some of the Key Concepts to the Quality Steps to Improving Success in your school:

  1. Mission Statements
  2. Building Goals
  3. Short Cycle Assessment
  4. Classroom Goals and Charting
  5. Development of Data Folders
  6. Quality Tools
  7. Student Attitude Change
  8. Committee Work
  9. Parent Buy-In
  10. PDSA Cycle
  11. Data Based, Data Supported Academic and Discipline Results

With This Workshop you will receive:
1 Complete resource book for each participant
2. Follow-up visitation to your school
3. Activities that can be done immediately within your classroom building to Change the learning environment and much, much, more

  • We can conduct a workshop in your building
  • We can conduct a workshop for your teachers combined with neighboring districts
  • We can conduct workshops on Saturday
  • We can conduct workshops on weekdays

The Martins Ferry  teams have  conducted workshops in many areas of Ohio.  They have presented at:  Rossford Area Conclave, The Columbiana County Administrative Workshop, Quality Improvement Academy 2003(Ashland U), Quality Improvement Academy 2004 (Ashland U), Ohio Title I State Conference 2003, Ohio Title I State Conference 2004, Wooster City Schools, Ohio Urban Quality Improvement Academy( Univ. of Akron), Rossford Area Quality Improvement Academy, Far East Quality Improvement Academy, Eastern Ohio Quality Improvement Academy

If you would like information relating to the workshop and to check for availability, please call 330-202-2261 or Email: jmarshall10@neo.rr.com

There is also a Video/CD that provides an overview of the process featuring the Team Martins Ferry in a workshop setting.  Information as to how you can be obtaining this is easy. Simply go to the website: WWW.DRMEDU.COM