Optimize Your School

Lyle Lee Jenkins is a full-time author, consultant and speaker with his Scottsdale, Arizona firm, From LtoJ Consulting Group, Inc.  His earlier career was in the public schools of California as a district superintendent, assistant superintendent, principal, math coordinator and teacher. In addition he was a professor/administrator for Oregon State University for five years. Lee’s best-seller is Permission to Forget: And Nine Other Root Causes of America’s Frustration with Education. Other continuous improvement titles are Improving Student Learning and From Systems Thinking to Systemic Action.   He started his writing career with math manipulative books including It’s A Tangram World, Let’s Pattern Block It, Fraction Tiles, Coin Stamp Mathematics and The Balance Book.Lee continues to be significantly influenced by the teaching of W. Edwards Deming.  The impetus for his current work began in 1992 with a 4-day, in person, Dr. Deming seminar.  He received a Ph.D. from The Claremont Graduate University, a master’s degree from California State University/San Jose and a bachelors degree from Point Loma Nazarene University.Lee’s speaking engagements have taken him to most USA states, Canada, India, Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, Peru, and Chile.  He offers keynotes, breakout sessions, and 1-3 day seminars. On his website, www.LtoJConsulting.com, a full keynote, plus segments of breakouts/seminars, are posted. Lee, and his wife Sandy, have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, have two sons, 7 grandchildren one great-grandchild.

• Foreword by Michael FullanPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Continuous Strategic Improvement for OptimizationChapter 1. Continuous Improvement: Placing Wheels on Servant LeadershipChapter 2. Adding Strategic to Continuous ImprovementChapter 3. Efficiency: Removing WasteChapter 4. Effectiveness: Testing CountermeasuresPart II. The Classroom First and ForemostChapter 5. Continuous Strategic Improvement: ClassroomChapter 6. Student Experts: The StandardsChapter 7. Practices That Support Powerful StandardsPart III. Continuous Strategic Improvement for Instructional LeadershipChapter 8. Optimization With the Radar ChartChapter 9. The Strategic PlanChapter 10. Alignment and StabilizationChapter 11. Strategies Worth TestingChapter 12. The Dichotomous Rubric and Performance ExpectationsPart IV. Optimizing Human Resources and FinanceChapter 13. Human ResourcesChapter 14. Finance and OperationsPart V. Creating a Culture of Continuous Strategic ImprovementChapter 15. Classroom: Teacher Experts in Continuous Strategic ImprovementChapter 16. The Role of the Principal With Continuous Strategic ImprovementChapter 17. ReflectionPart VI. ResultsChapter 18. Data and Statistics: From a Continuous Strategic Improvement PerspectiveChapter 19. Conclusion and ChallengeResourcesGlossaryReferencesIndex

"This book creates a whole picture approach to school improvement while shunning the current top down model in favor of a school-led plan. The approach not only increases school performances, but values the school-level leadership and instructional faculty."