Applying Lean Six Sigma in Public Education? What Lean Six Sigma is NOT
Sometimes the best way to understand what something is is to understand what it is not. I am often asked “what is Lean Six Sigma?” This is a new approach for most educators and administrators and, quite frankly, there’s a lot to understand. In the past, I have used an illustration of six blind […]
What Lies Beneath: Taking a Deeper Look
In 1905 a curious 13 year-old boy named Ben Sands re-discovered what is now famously known as The Lost Sea located in Sweetwater, TN. Listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as America’s largest underground lake, the Lost Sea is part of an extensive and historic cave system called Craighead Caverns. Used by the […]
An Assessment is Not an Audit…Really!
Often when our team goes in to a school system to perform an assessment, the staff members in the departments being reviewed appear nervous. From toe tapping to hand wringing, we have seen it all. The amazing thing is how different many of them are at the end of the assessment. The same individuals who […]