The Baldrige framework is based on core values and concepts thatrepresent beliefs and behaviors found in high-performing organizations:

• Systems perspective
• Visionary leadership
• Student-centered excellence
• Valuing people
• Organizational learning and agility
• Focus on success
• Managing for innovation
• Management by fact
• Societal responsibility
• Ethics and transparency
• Delivering value and results

With the Baldrige framework, you evaluate and improve your processes along four dimensions:

• Approach: How systematic are your key processes?
• Deployment: How consistently are your key processes used throughout your organization?
• Learning: Have you evaluated and improved your key processes? Have improvements been shared within your organization?
• Integration: How do your processes address your current and future organizational needs?

You evaluate your results along four dimensions:

• Levels: What is your current performance?
• Trends: Are the results improving, staying the same, or getting worse?
• Comparisons: How does your performance compare with that of other organizations or with benchmarks?
• Integration: Are you tracking results that are important to your organization? Are you using the results in organizational decision making?

• Use of data notebooks by all students in all classes to track and chart personal performance data.
• Goal setting each quarter by all students.
• Quality student and quality teacher factors identified and posted in the classroom.
• Development of grade level vision and mission statements.
• Strategic planning with action steps and learning targets in all classes.
• Data walls to show class progress.
• Class celebrations when success is achieved.
• Students are encouraged to be responsible for their own learning.
• Students are encouraged to be response-able to the success of the class.
• Use of flowcharts to simplify classroom procedures.
• Feedback tools to improve instruction.