Quality Schools

 
Donihee Consulting can help schools become Quality Schools through the transition from boss-management to lead-management principles. Based on Dr. William Glasser's books, "The Quality School: Managing Students Without Coercion" and "Every Student Can Succeed", Donihee Consulting will guide you through the four phases necessary to complete this process.
 
The principal of the school plays a vital facilitation role in that she/he trains and teaches students, staff and parents about Choice Theory and Quality Schools. She/he then initiates this application within the school when the staff are committed to creating a Quality School.

A Quality School would meet six criteria:

  1. All discipline problems, not incidents, will be eliminated in two years. A significant drop should occur in year one.
  2. At the time the school becomes a quality school, achievement scores on provincial assessment tests should be improved over what was achieved in the past.
  3. TLC means that all grades below competence, or what is now a B, will be eliminated. Students will have to demonstrate competence to their teachers or to designated teacher's assistants to get credit for the grades or courses. All schooling* will be eliminated and replaced by useful education.
  4. All students will do some quality work each year - that is, work that is significantly beyond competence. All such work will receive an A or higher grade. This criterion will give hardworking students a chance to show they can excel.
  5. All staff and students will be taught to use Choice Theory in their lives and in their work in school. Parents will be encouraged to participate in study groups to become familiar with Choice Theory. A few of these groups will be led by teachers to start, but parent volunteers will be asked to take the groups over once they get started.
  6. It will be obvious by the end of the first year that this is a joyful school.

When the school implements the program, they have access to a network of other member schools who use the process of Quality Schools in their districts. For more information, go to: http://www.wglasser.com/quality.htm.

* schooling is defined by two practices:

1) making students acquire knowledge that has no value for anyone in the real world and

2) forcing students to acquire knowledge that may have value in the real world, but nowhere near enough value to force every student to learn it.

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