Mission
"Striving to meet the needs of learners by
working with schools, families and communities
to achieve educational excellence through
exemplary service and leadership."
Values
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 Striving for excellence
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Honoring individual dignity
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Supporting the family's essential role
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Promoting community awareness and
developing partnerships
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Utilizing resources efficiently
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Developing lifelong learners
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Meeting challenges through innovation
Purpose
(determined with staff consensus in August
2005)
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Serve students and families including
special needs and direct instruction to
students.
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Provide leadership and vision
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Efficient use of funding
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Voice for Western NE in NDE Partnership
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Provide resources to schools
- -Training and in-depth professional
development
- -Information and communication
- -Personnel
- -Technology
Improvement Cycle
 ESU#13
provides many programs and delivers services
across 15,000 square miles in the panhandle of
Nebraska. Complex systems like this learn that
interconnectedness and working together to
achieve student learning is needed to fulfill
our mission. In 2005-2006, ESU #13 worked with
Dr. Jean Ann Petz to study the PDSA
(Plan-Do-Study-Act) process as a way of managing
change and developing consistent methods to
consider needed changes, to find "root causes",
to test proposed solutions to problems,
processes and systems and to find ways to ensure
that improved processes are utilized throughout
the system. The programs and services provided
at ESU #13 are currently collecting data,
updating profiles and trial testing some of the
quality tools used in this process.
ESU#13 is indebted to Pekin Public Schools in
Illinois for their information and support of
PDSA and Quality Tools. Their website
provides in-depth
examples and directions, including
examples of student work using these tools in
the classroom.
Click on an area for that Current Improvement
Plan Information
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