The Continuous Performance Improvement Process of Coach John Wooden
Presented By:
Coach Hank Bias & Professor Ronald Gallimore
Coach Emeritus & Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Session Abstract:
Teaching and coaching is a powerful tool for leaders & managers. Throughout his career, Coach Wooden employed a systematic continuous improvement process. When UCLA burst on the national basketball scene in the early 60’s, everyone was surprised. A coach who “taught” in obscurity for more than 15 years magically became a “wizard of winning”. Will his approach work today? It did for Coach Henry Bias. Coach Bias’ story provides concrete illustrations of Wooden’s improvement process with a high school program deep in trouble. Three years later Coach Bias’ team competed for a State District title and he was named Coach of the Year. The actions Bias followed to improve his teaching were documented by UCLA researchers and provide a model others can follow.
Learning Objectives:
In this session you will learn…
- The step by step process John Wooden used to steadily improve his teaching and coaching during his 47 years at UCLA
- Practical examples of Wooden’s self- improvement process in practice
- Overlap between Wooden’s improvement process & LEAN
Presenter Bio:
- BS ED University of Cincinnati , MA ED Northern Kentucky University
- Teacher 31 years
- Head Coach (2 sports) 32 years
- Assistant Basketball Coach NKU 3 years
- 3X Coach of the Year
- USSF National B Coaching License
- Coached in numerous District & Regional Appearances
- Subject of articles regarding continuous improvement in 2 national publications
- Participated in the production of John Wooden’s UCLA Offense Book
- Currently has a former player playing in the MLS and another coaching in the NBA.
- Extensive experience teaching students that are economically, socially, academically or behaviorally disadvantaged.
Professor Gallimore
Ronald Gallimore is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences University of California, Los Angeles. Gallimore’s research focuses on culture & behavior change, and the improvement of teaching, training, and coaching. He was co-founder of a laboratory school for Native Hawaiians (1970-1980) and the LessonLab Research Institute (1997-2010), and was co-director of the TIMSS Video Study of Mathematics and Science Teaching in 7 Countries. He was Principal Investigator of Project CHILD (1984-1999, a multi-method, longitudinal study of children with developmental delays & their families). He was Principal Investigator of the Latino Home School Project (1988-2005, longitudinal study of immigrant Latino children and their families). He is the author of four books and 140 journal articles and chapters. He observed and published a description of the teaching practices of UCLA’s Coach John Wooden (ESPN’s Coach of the 20th Century). He conducted numerous interviews with Coach Wooden, the results of which were published in 4 articles and the book You Haven’t Taught Until They’ve Learned. His book, Rousing Minds to Life, recognized with the 1993 Grawemeyer Award, was described by the awarding committee as an “outstanding educational achievement with potential for worldwide impact.” He also received the University of California Presidential Award for research contributing to improvement of public schools (1992), the International Reading Association’s Harris Award for best research article (1993), & the National Staff Development Council Best Research of the Year Award (2010).