4DX

“People aren’t stupid or lazy...they’re busy”.  Adding one more thing to teachers’ already overflowing plates is not something to be taken lightly.  Taking the steps to becoming a Leader in Me campus was a huge challenge to the whirlwind, as it added a whole new course to the meal, not just the plate!  I’m pretty familiar with the 4DX model.  We have a schoolwide WIG, we document our lead measures, we have a scoreboard in the hallway, and we have weekly PLC meetings to discuss progress.   The teachers all  have personal and professional WIGs on their  walls, although I can’t attest to how diligent they are about using 4DX independently.   
The 2 things that have impacted us the most are the creation of compelling scoreboards,  and focusing on 2-3 goals at a time.   When the students can see their class’s reading scores go up on the graph, they get excited about reading!  As the person in charge of keeping up the graph, I can say that they also get mad when it is not updated in a timely fashion.  
The 2-3 goal rule is tricky.  As far as our WIG is concerned, we have only one goal: to improve reading scores.  But how many more goals are teachers and students focused on every day in the whirlwind?  Get grading done, record lessons for Seesaw, call 5 parents, etc….  That’s why keeping the goal count low is important: any more and there would be hands thrown in the air in defeat and nothing would get accomplished. 

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