“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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