Why keep score at the end of each year instead of understanding continuous improvement data to improve outcomes for all? 

In an age of state report cards for k-12, Moody’s ratings for higher ed, and a workforce compromised by stockholders' earnings over customer value - the question is a complicated one for organizations that value metrics over Maslow.

This week, our team offers another way to ascertain the purpose of keeping score - continuous improvement check-ups. Think of every sporting event you’ve ever attended or watched at home on TV. What’s the score is such a common refrain. Folks want to understand the drama, the opportunity, or the commitment they should make to paying attention. Winning is an American ideal, and only recently have countries around the world begging to look more deeply at scorecards that involve mental health, quality of life, and a sense of joy. In short, they look at their overall health as a yearly check-up much in the way the healthcare profession does in their work.

These groundbreakers want to know how to bust the myth of work-life balance, and instead seek a holistic approach to significance and wellness. Continuous improvement in all areas of their life therebefore becomes about what did we learn, what went well, and how can we improve to be more present and healthy for self, team, and society. At Setser Group we have some tools that can help below.

In the video below our CEO, Bryan Setser gives you an overview of continuous improvement check-ups that you can use with your teams and organizations. 

Here’s the link to the sample slide you can download or copy to customize. 

The tools below can also be used to facilitate your diagnostic review. 

Mastery-based learning has revealed 20th-Century limitations and ushered in next-generation solutions for measuring student performance. Old-school performance measures and legacy software programs have failed to provide adequate service. Next Generation Learning Challenges, Mastery Transcript Consortium, and Western Governors University have brought new approaches forward.

NGLC offers a new, unique approach to evaluating outcomes with its Full Spectrum of Evidence Toolkit. The toolkit helps evaluate complex program success by centering on student voices. “Student-centered learning is about students understanding themselves more deeply, taking ownership of their own learning and goals, and engaging purposefully with the world beyond school. Growth in these areas is hard to measure: it’s subjective, highly contextual, and non-linear. But it’s real, and it’s what we want for our students."

Mastery Transcript Consortium finds the idea that 99% of the high school transcripts following an identical format to be a relic of an outdated industrial age. Working with their network of member schools, the MTC has co-designed and built a software platform that schools use to publish Mastery Transcripts for their high school students and deliver these transcripts securely to college admissions readers and/or employers. 

Western Governors University has pioneered competency-based education for higher education. Students progress through courses as soon as they can prove they’ve mastered the competencies, rather than advancing only when the semester or term ends. No final numeric or letter grades or GPA are involved. Just mastery of clearly defined skills and knowledge. Each student’s learning journey begins where their knowledge currently is—and ends when the course is mastered. And mastery is a concept that the workforce clearly understands. It’s how most promotions and advancements work in the workplace. 

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