Education

Tom Rudmik: Thriving in the World of Massive Change

By John Hunter / November 20, 2017 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. This webcast shows Tom Rudmik’s presentation, Thriving in the World of Massive Change, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Tom is CEO of Master’s Academy and College. This is an interesting presentation that includes a look at an array of current scientific […]

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Fixing Education: A Model That Works, by Bette Moen

By John Hunter / November 6, 2017 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. This webcast shows Bette Moen’s presentation, Fixing Education: A Model That Works, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Bette is the founder and director of Cedar Crest Academy. Cedar Crest pays close personal attention to each student and adjusts the system to their needs and strengths. The […]

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The Landry Principle

By Bill Bellows / October 19, 2017 / 6 Comments

Guest post by Doug Stilwell, Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership at Drake University, originally featured as a post at https://sites.google.com/site/dcintrial2/.    Follow this link to listen to our first podcast with Doug. Landry I am the proud owner/friend of a one year old 75 pound golden retriever named Landry, affectionately named after the former and well-respected coach […]

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The Transformation from School Based Learning to Lifelong Learning

By John Hunter / October 2, 2017 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). This webcast shows Bjarne Wig’s presentation, The Transformation of Learning, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. See Bjarne’s research paper that forms the basis of the talk: The Transformation of Learning at the Work Place. Educational institutions are becoming dinosaurs […]

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Tree climbing or life-long learning – what’s the real AIM of our education system?

By Guest Post / July 13, 2017 / 0 Comments

In our schools, targets and rankings cause cheating, focus on achievement, and drive in fear and suck the joy out of learning.

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Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education

By John Hunter / April 20, 2017 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Sharon Lohr presented the 2014 American Statistical Association (ASA) Deming Lecture – Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education (slides with notes and references). Dr. Lohr earned her doctorate in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she learned about Deming’s […]

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David Langford Presentation on Motivation and System Improvement

By John Hunter / February 23, 2017 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. David Langford’s presentation at our 2015 annual conference was titled: Education – Implementation Intentions and Automatization. David included a clip from one of my favorite shows, Utopia (called Dreamland in USA) with a vivid example of a performance appraisal experience. David also discusses the problems created by using extrinsic […]

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Ravi Roy on Teaching Deming’s Ideas at Southern Utah University

By John Hunter / December 5, 2016 / 0 Comments

In this Deming Institute podcast, Deming Fellow Ravi Roy discusses teaching Deming’s ideas at Southern Utah University.

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Change the Situation – Get a Different Result

By John Hunter / November 3, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. David Langford’s presentation at the 2015 Deming in Education conference starts with a clip from Clare Crawford Mason’s PBS presentation on Mt. Edgecumbe High School, in Sitka, Alaska. Deming was a champion of the individual. He would go into companies and he would just berate management, but he loved […]

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Finding Joy In Learning: Applying Deming’s Theory to Schools

By John Hunter / September 6, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Presentation by Michael King and Jane Kovacs at the 2015 Deming in Education conference – Finding Joy In Learning: Applying Deming’s Theory to Schools. The speakers work for Quality Learning Australasia (QLA). QLA’s website has quite a bit of useful information. One of the tools they used in the […]

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