School diagnostic toolkit
Self-assessment instrument across the six improvement domains that generates a School Health Index and surfaces priority areas.
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Resources
A professional resource library for leaders running the improvement operating system. Each card describes a tool, template, or protocol you can adapt to your school’s context — from first diagnosis through strategy, action, monitoring, and review. Pair them with the framework and the continuous-improvement cycle.
These resources are illustrative templates for portfolio demonstration. Adapt them to your school, district, and accreditation context.
Resource library
Strategic-planning templates
Vision-to-strategy templates linking mission, goals, and measures into a coherent multi-year improvement plan.
Open strategic planning →SWOT & PESTLE guides
Structured environmental-scan guides for analyzing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and external factors.
Use the SWOT builder →Balanced scorecard template
Four-perspective scorecard to translate strategy into objectives, measures, and targets that stay balanced.
Build a scorecard →Action-plan templates
Initiative templates with SMART goals, action steps, owners, timelines, resources, and success indicators.
Open action planning →Quarterly-review protocols
Meeting protocols for progress reviews — what to bring, how to study evidence, and how to decide next-cycle adjustments.
Open monitoring →Evidence-collection guides
Guidance on gathering balanced leading and lagging evidence — surveys, observations, and outcome data.
Open performance →PDSA cycle guide
A practical guide to running Plan–Do–Study–Act cycles so improvement becomes how the school operates.
Open the cycle →Accreditation crosswalk
A crosswalk mapping the six improvement domains to common accreditation and quality-assurance standards.
View the framework →Reading list
A curated starting point on continuous improvement, systems thinking, and quality in organizations.
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Research Foundation
These tools draw on established traditions in continuous improvement, systems thinking, strategic leadership, organizational development, and quality assurance. Used together, they make the improvement operating system practical — diagnose, plan, act, monitor, and refine in a repeating cycle. All templates are illustrative.
Recommended reading
General themes to ground a school-improvement practice. Explore current editions and authoritative sources for specific titles.
Continuous improvement in educationImprovement science, PDSA cycles, and learning from variation in practice.
ImprovementSystems thinking for organizationsSeeing the whole system, feedback loops, and leverage points for change.
SystemsQuality & total quality managementQuality principles, reducing waste, and building improvement into daily work.
QualityStrategic leadership & changeSetting direction, leading change, and sustaining momentum over time.
LeadershipOrganizational learning & cultureBuilding a learning organization and a culture that supports improvement.
CultureData-informed decision-makingUsing evidence well — leading and lagging indicators, dashboards, and review.
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