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K-12 Institutions

Transforming K-12 education requires continuous improvement and highly engaged leaders, employees, students and families. By building leadership capacity through evidence-based improvement practices and a focus on leadership development, schools can establish an educational leadership culture with the skills and alignment to improve outcomes and drive organizational excellence.

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Practicing Innovation and Inclusion to Create a Learning Culture in Schools

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Four school districts that are setting the example for leaving the comfort zone and changing practices to build a culture of continuous learning for employees and students.

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The Nine Principles®: A Foundational Guide to Defining Organizational Excellence

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These components of excellence that are consistently present in high-performing organizations provide a roadmap for organizations on a transformational journey.

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  • Easily Measure and Communicate Progress on Improvement Initiatives With a Stoplight Report

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    The Stoplight Report helps monitor and communicate how ideas, concerns, and barriers are being resolved. Keep the team informed of priorities for improvement.

  • Using Leadership Rounding to Retain Employees in Education

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    Use rounding to build relationships, improve engagement and retain employees in education.

  • Focusing on the Employee Onboarding Experience to Improve Processes and Reduce Turnover in School Districts

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    How onboarding practices focused on learning from new employees and creating an exceptional experience improved retention in Pewaukee School District.

  • Using Continuous Improvement Strategies in the Classroom to Take a Proactive Learning Approach

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    Apply improvement science in the classroom to foster a learning environment focused on continuously improving to become master problem solvers.

  • The Importance of a Mentor During New Employee Onboarding

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    Establishing mentorship programs for new employees helps increase job satisfaction and develops them into quality contributors within your organization.

  • Initiate a Conversation that Improves Employee Performance

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    The DESK approach for low performer conversations provides a guide to improve employee performance and develop leaders within education institutions.

  • Bold Leadership: A New Age of Education Leaders

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    Education needs bold, agile leaders to guide institutions to meet students where they are and prepare them for the skills they will need in the future.

  • Implementing Inclusion Practices Outside of the Classroom to Improve Inclusion in the Classroom

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    K12 leaders are the change agents need to implement diversity, equity and inclusion, and it starts outside of the classroom.

  • How Can School Leaders Communicate to Address Current Obstacles?

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    To lead through change in education requires agile leadership that anticipates disruption. Plan to over-communicate to navigate obstacles and lead with agility.

  • Conducting a Time Sensitive Situation Analysis and Communicating Action Plans Effectively

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    When decision making is critical, the processes and tools need to be seamless. This situation analysis and action plan template can help education leaders.

  • Succession Planning is Key to Sustaining Organizational Excellence in K12 Education

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    This practice to ensure success for tomorrow’s education leaders captures essential knowledge that can only be defined by the person in the role.

  • 3 Things All Employees Need to Feel Satisfied with their Work

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    In order to feel satisfied at work, leaders need to be intentional in sharing with employees that their job has purpose, is worthwhile and makes a difference.

  • Successfully Manage Change through Leadership Transitions in Education Institutions

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    Prepare future education leaders to successfully manage change and leader transitions by developing individual leadership skills aligned to a succession plan.

  • Communicate with Greater Clarity Using the Execution Triangle

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    Simple but effective practices and tools that K12 education leaders can use to enhance the clarity and transparency of communication.

  • How One School District Hardwired Continuous Improvement Practices to Change their Culture and Adjust through Disruption

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    To execute continuous improvement well, continuous learning is a must. Learn how a school district used disruption as the greatest innovator to achieve results.

  • Accelerate Your Performance Podcast

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    A podcast focused on how school districts and organizations harness the Nine Principles for Organizational Excellence to improve culture and performance.

  • The Maturity Model: Phases of Improvement in Organizational Excellence

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    Implementing five phases of improvement to achieve organizational maturity and excellence.

  • Move Students Forward with a Focus on Strengths

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    How can we accelerate learning and achieve student equity in schools? Start by operating proactively using an asset-based approach to student progress.

  • Re-recruit Employees through Continuous Onboarding

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    Long-term plans for keeping employees on board with the organization require a balance of continuous improvement strategies and development opportunities.

  • Five Factors of High-performing Leaders in Education

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    A portfolio of five schools districts succeeding under leaders who exemplify relentlessness, accountability, development, communication and connection to purpose.

  • Remove Communication Barriers with Key Words at Key Times

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    A concepts and tool that leaders can use to build intentional messaging designed to effectively communicate information to get intended outcomes.

  • Cascade a Culture of Belonging from Employees to Students

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    When leaders demonstrate a culture of belonging with employees, the employees will repeat this behavior with students – in person and in virtual environments.

  • Embedding Continuous Improvement in K-12 Education Systems

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    Using Continuous Improvement methods, K-12 organizations can prepare for the shifting needs of students and approach improvement proactively using data.

  • South Louisiana Community College’s Culture Transformation Began With Senior Leadership

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    Faced with a merger that combined two struggling institutions, Dr. Natalie Harder looks to employees to help her change leadership culture.

  • Drive Team Success with Consistent Communication About Results

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    Regular connections and consistent communication with employees increase employee engagement and satisfaction while keeping teams focused on goals.

  • Create a Positive Culture by Recognizing and Rewarding Success

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    Does recognition in the workplace really make a difference? Only if you want motivated, high-performing employees who are committed to the organization.

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    Educational leaders are striving to improve operations and provide an environment that engages educators, students and families.

    Using evidence-based leadership and continuous improvement practices, our K-12 education experts work with academic and operational leaders to apply a framework for identifying and solving problems and standardizing best practices that accelerate positive results. This framework increases leadership capacity — giving leaders more time to build skills and drive meaningful change throughout their district and schools.

  • Consumer Transformation

    Consumer Transformation

    Educational leaders are striving to continuously meet and exceed expectations for K-12 education in their communities.

    Our Huron team helps educational leaders develop and implement service excellence strategies focused on using feedback to improve experience and outcomes — and position them as a top choice for employees to work and families to send their students.

  • Organizational Transformation

    Organizational Transformation

    The stakes are higher than ever in education as school districts face unprecedented pressure to ensure that all students gain opportunities to achieve success.

    Educational leaders today must be skilled at applying systemwide improvement methodology. Our team works with district and school leaders to implement a continuous improvement framework that is the foundation of organizational transformation. Through short-cycle improvement, leaders can create engaging workplaces, build consistency of practice and sustain a culture of excellence that drives high performance and results.

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    Educational leaders need a solid, future-thinking strategic direction to guide them through a challenging and changing educational landscape.

    Huron’s team has deep expertise in creating K-12 strategies defined by clear goals and objectives and guided by strategic alliances that strive for collective community impact focused on student success.

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