Five-Step Program Improvement Process Training Resources
Five-Step Program Improvement Process Summary Handout
A one page summary description of each of the steps in the Five-Step Program Improvement
Process.
(Five Step Program
Improvement Process Handout)
Five-Step Program Improvement Process Webinars
There are six archived webinars which include an overview webinar and five, separate
webinars for each step.
(Archived Webinars)
Improving Performance - A Five Step Process
A guide designed to help state education agencies, schools and colleges use data
to improve performance on the Perkins III core indicators. This guide provides a
comprehensive generic explanation of the Five-Step Program Improvement Process.
(Improving Performance – A
Five Step Process)
Five-Step Process Facilitator's Toolkit
This 5-Step Process Facilitator’s Toolkit has been produced by the Missouri Career
Education Coordinators in an effort to ease and guide future facilitators when implementing
the 5-step process. The facilitator is defined as the person who guides the team
through the process, helping them to understand their objectives and assisting them
with planning and achieving their goals, without taking a particular position in
the discussion. This toolkit is not meant to duplicate information provided in the
“Guide for Program Improvement for Perkins IV: Nontraditional CTE Program Participation
and Completion” prepared by the National Alliance for Partnership in Equity (NAPE),
but rather to complement the existing guidebook.
(Download Toolkit)
Step Three: Best Solutions Resource list
This flyer contains tips, organizations, programs and resources to help find the
best solutions for your program.
(Step Three:
Best Solutions Resource list flyer)
Guide for Program Improvement for Perkins IV: Nontraditional CTE Program Participation
and Completion
A step by step guide for using the Five-Step Program Improvement Process to analyze
Perkins performance data, identify root causes, select appropriate strategies, pilot
test and evaluation and implement. this guide is specifically developed for working
on increasing the participation and completion of underrepresented gender students
in nontraditional career and technical education.
(Guide for Program Improvement
for Perkins IV: Nontraditional CTE Program Participation and Completion)
Nontraditional Career Preparation: Root Causes and Strategies
This is a summary review of the research literature through 2008 on the participation
and completion of students in nontraditional career and technical education and
females in STEM education. Research based root causes, theories and strategies are
presented in a summary introductory table followed by more complete descriptions
of the research behind the theories, evidence, strategies and recommendations, and
effective practices and resources identified.
(Nontraditional
Career Preparation: Root Causes and Strategies Document)
Startling Statements
What are our biases about nontraditional participation in the workforce? This activity
works well as an opening ice breaker and includes a group activity that has participants
guessing what they think the statistics are for particular workforce participation
data, including participation of men and women in the workforce and their representation
in a variety of nontraditional occupations.
(Startling
Statements Instructions)
(Startling
Statements Quiz)
STEM Case Study and Case Study Worksheet
This activity used after Step 1, 2, and 3 of the Five Step Program Improvement Process
Training helps participants see what happens when you jump to conclusions about
the barriers that students are facing to participating and completing nontraditional
career and technical education programs.
(STEM Case Study)
(Case Study Worksheet)
Bias Literacy, by Ruta Sevo, PhD and Daryl E. Chubin, PhD
Use this resource document with participants to educate them about gender equity
history and theory as part of Step Two – Identify Root Causes - in the Five Step
Program Improvement Process. This can be used as supplemental resource materials
or have participants "jigsaw" the publication and report out to the group about
what they learned from the section they read. This is a great piece to use in concert
with Nontraditional
Career Preparation: Root Causes and Strategies.
(Bias Literacy)
Early Exposure
One of the Root Causes identified in Nontraditional Career Preparation: Root Causes and Strategies
is early exposure. Research shows that individuals who have been exposed to nontraditional
careers early in life or are introduced to the basics of a technical career field
are more likely to succeed in their program of study and select a career in the
field. This exercise illustrates with participants what it is like to not be familiar
with items related to technology – a common occurrence for students entering an
unknown nontraditional training program.
(Techno Bag Exercise
Instructions)
Developing a Root Cause Theory
These two exercises, which compliment each other, can be used to demonstrate how
a group of individuals at a local education agency could process the root causes
information and develop a theory for the root causes that represent the most direct
barrier for students pursuing nontraditional careers such as women in STEM related
career cluster programs of study.
(Root
Causes Cards)
(Root Causes Exercises Instructions)
Conducting A Study of Root Causes
This folder contains a variety of instruments and resources that can be used by
a local team to conduct action research at home to effectively identify root causes
for student participation and completion of nontraditional career and technical
education programs.
(Root Causes Assessment Instruments (zip))
Root Causes and Effective Practices
This exercise takes participants through a fun exercise matching the root causes
and strategies identified in Nontraditional Career Preparation: Root Causes and Strategies.
(Root Causes
and Effective Practices Exercise (zip))
Professional Development Implementation Planning
Central to the STEM Equity Pipeline Project is the intent that the training that
participants receive will be used to train others. This may mean going back to their
home school to work with a team of staff and faculty to implement the Five Step
Program Improvement Process, conducting training with others in the state through
their particular professional development network, or presenting at local, state
or national conferences. The planning template provided is used at the STEM Equity
Pipeline Five Step Program Improvement Process to get participants started on their
professional development implementation plan. We use this plan as a baseline when
conducting follow-up evaluation with training participants to determine the effect
of the training on their work and on those whom they have trained.
(Professional Development
Implementation Plan Template)
Additional Resources
Classroom Instruction
(zip)
Tip Sheets (zip)
Nontraditional CTE Resources
(doc)
NTO Resources
Short List (doc)
Step
Two and Three Web Resources (pdf)
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