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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=185 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="03fb9c00dduajq.jpg"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="70" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 76 WIDTH="66"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="76" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="66" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Publications </B></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Explanations"><U><B>Explanations</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Publications "><U><B>Publications </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="ddddddd.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Readers Comments"><U><B>Readers' Comments</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="From the Catalogue"><U><B>From the Catalogue</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Control Sheet for Teaching and Learn"><U><B>The Control Sheet for Teaching and Learning</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="deming"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="index_deming.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FairPlay Services and Publications"><U><B>Deming</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>"Cease dependence on mass instpection.  American firms typically inspect a product as it comes off the line .... Defective parts are either thrown out or reworked.  In effect a company is paying workers to make defects and to correct them.  Quality comes not from inspection [at the end of the line] but improvement of the process."</B></div> <div> <B>(Deming quoted by Mary Walton, Deming Management at Work, pp. 34-35.) </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>FairPlay Services and Publications</B></FONT>    |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FairPlay Services and Publications"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Explanations"><U><IMG SRC="04009110.gif" border=0 width="9" height="17" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>     <A HREF="ddddddd.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Readers Comments"><U><IMG SRC="04309110.gif" border=0 width="9" height="17" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>       <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="17" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="17">   <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="17" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="17"> </div> <div> Publications </div> <div> <B> <A NAME="publications_page"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Since 1984 FairPlay has been publishing material relating to quality and education.</FONT></div> <div> In 1998, we published our keystone book by Dr. James A. Hills, titled:</div> <div> <U>Total Quality Management in the Classroom:  Blue-Ribbon Standards for Education</U>.</div> <div> In this book, Dr. Hills <U>explains</U> how to integrate quality management concepts with Bloom's cognitive taxonomy in order to harness the power of both.  He <U>shows</U> how to develop a quality <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Control Sheet for Teaching and Learn"><U>control sheet</U></A> for nearly any academic subject, and how to use rubrics to integrate subject matter.  He<U> provides</U> a glossary of over 50 terms relating to this wedding of concepts.  </div> <bR> <div> Step by step he <U>explains</U> Bloom's cognitive taxonomy, providing anecdotes for each level.  He <U>provides</U> charts and tables as ready reference for teachers.  He <U>cross-references</U> every term in the glossary to where it is used in the book.  </div> <bR> <div> Most books on quality and education relate to bus schedules, support programs, and administration.  <U>T</U><U>his</U><U> book relates to teaching and learning</U>. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#339966" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="ddddddd.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Readers Comments"><U>(Click here for comments by those who read and use this book)</U></A></FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> To supplement FairPlay's keystone book, we have published two "how to" papers by Dr. Hills:</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">FP 706: </FONT> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >"</FONT>Harnessing the Power of Bloom and Deming for Education"<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > (20 pages, 2001).  This paper provides the background and theory for developing rubrics and control sheets for teaching and learning.  This would be useful for any teacher of any academic subject.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">FP 707   "<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Developing a Quality Control Sheet for Mastery Learning</FONT>" (12 pages,  2002)      </div> <div>        This document proves useful as a "how to" paper for teachers of basic writing skills for grades 8 </div> <div>        through 14. It shows </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">How to <U>combine rubrics</U> to form a control sheet.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">How to <U>operate a help desk.</U></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a7300a700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">How to <U>convert quality managed scores to traditional grades</U>.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="services"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Services</B></div> <div> We help teachers and directors of curriculum develop the control sheets and rubrics necessary to integrate the concepts of Bloom and Deming.  We provide initial workshops followed by one -on-one guidance for this purpose.  Once we have Bloom and Deming established, we then help schools and teachers integrate writing and math into the mainstream curriculum.  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#339966" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id19_contact_us.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Click here to for "Contact Us" page</U></A></FONT>.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>                                                                                </div> </td> </tr></table></body>