Apr 14, 2025

How can we improve attendance when every school has a different process?

In this episode, John Dues continues his exploration of Deming’s philosophy in action, focusing on chronic absenteeism. As part of their third PDSA cycle, John’s team shifts from individual interventions to process standardization—mapping how...

Mar 24, 2025

It's time for PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) Cycle 2 in John Dues' journey to reduce chronic absenteeism in his schools. His team is using PDSA to quickly test ideas and learn on a small scale. Find out what happened and how PDSA can be a powerful tool for learning.

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Feb 24, 2025

Can you use Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) during the information-gathering phase of an improvement project? Yes! Join John Dues and host Andrew Stotz as they discuss how John's team used PDSA to learn more about chronic absenteeism, their surprising findings, and what they'll do next.

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Feb 10, 2025

Join John Dues and Andrew Stotz as they go one step deeper into finding the precise problem you want to improve. Sometimes taking big actions means starting small.

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Diving Deeper into Defining the Problem: Path for Improvement (Part 6)

0:00:02.2 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz and I'll be your host as...

Dec 18, 2024

Before you start solving a problem, you need to know what, precisely, you're trying to solve. In this episode, John Dues and Andrew Stotz talk about how to figure out the problem on which you will focus your team's efforts.

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0:00:02.2 Andrew Stotz: My name is Andrew Stotz, and I'll be your host as we dive...