data teams - b.c.u.s.d #8 learning...
TRANSCRIPT
Data TeamsBethalto Community Unit School District #8
What are Data Teams?
• Data Teams are a model for continuous, collaborative action that inspires and empowers professionals to improve teaching, learning, and leadership for all.
Definitions• Data Teams use common priority standards, generate
common formative assessment, and using common scoring guides to monitor and analyze student performance.
• Data Teams are small, grade-level, department, course, or content teams that examine work generated from a common formative assessment in order to drive instruction and improve professional practice.
• Data Teams have scheduled, collaborative, structured meeting that concentrate on effectiveness of teaching and learning.
Money Ball
Education Week
Instructional Strategies = Student Achievement
Stuck on Escalator
• Increase awareness of the relevance of data and its impact on leadership, teaching, and learning.
• Reinforce the importance of collect both cause and effect data.
• Monitor leadership, teaching, and learning.
• Decision making for school improvement.
What will be gained with Data Teams?
Self-Assessment
pg. 5
Principals of Decision Making• Antecedents-understanding the effects
requires understanding of the cause.
• Accountability-is the authority to act and the permission to subtract.
• Collaboration-built into every step of data management; necessitates team thinking and candor; and must integrated into every data driven decision.
Jigsaw Activity
• Chapter 3 - Antecedents
• Chapter 4 - Accountability
• Chapter 5- Communication
Administrative Structure & Learning Conditions
Instructional Strategies
Teacher Routines
Weed the Garden
Add - Subtract - Combine
Increase Focus
90-90-90 Schools
• Focus on Achievement
• Clear Curriculum Choices
• Frequent Assessment
• Emphasis on Writing
• External Scoring
Data..Data...More Data“The value of the data emerges when analysis provides
insights that direct decisions for students” S. White
2 Types of Data
Effect Data vs. Cause Data
Effect Data• State Test
• School Attendance
• Formative Assessment
• School Survey
• IEP Goals
• Cohort Data
Cause Data• Teacher-Provide Feedback
• Collaborative Scoring Opportunities
• Grading Practices
• Homework Policies
• Instructional Strategies
• Reading Strategies pg. 11
pg.14
Planning
Implementation
Monitoring
Levels of Data Analysis
Self-Assessment - Handout
Step 2: Analyze Data to Prioritize Needs
Step 3:Establish
SMART GoalsStep 4:Select common
instructional strategies
Step 1: Collect and chart
data.
Step 6:Monitor and
Evaluate Results
Step 5:Determine Results
Indicators
The DecisionMaking for
ResultsSix-Step Process
pg. 19
Step 1: Collect and Chart Data• To gather and organize data in order to gain
insights about teaching, learning, and leadership practices.
• Measures of data
• Disaggregation
• Grouping of Students
• Proficient - Already Close To Proficient - Far but Likely To be Proficient - Not Likely to be Proficient
Handout - pg. 108and Excel Document
Multiple Standards
• The pre-assessment may contain multiple standards.
• No more than 4 standards per assessment.
Step 2: Analyze Data and Prioritize
• To identify causes for celebration and to identify areas of concern.
• Strengths
• Needs (Performance Error and Misconceptions)
• Performance Behavior
• Inference
Proficient or Higher
Students Close to Proficient
Students Far to Go
Intervention Students
PrioritizeWhat standard(s) do we want to focus on?
Step 3: Establish SMART Goals
• To identify your most critical goals for student achievement base on the challenges that were identified through the inquiry process
• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Relevant
• Timely
Suggested Format
Percentage of __________scoring proficient or higherin___________ will increase from ____% to ____%by the end of ________ school year as measured by
____________ administered in ___________.
(student group)
(standard)
(assessment tool) (month, year)
pg. 116
Proficient + Close to Proficient + Far from Proficient / Total Number
Step 4: Select Common Instructional Strategies
• Adult actions will impact student achievement.
• Strategies are:
• Action-oriented
• Measurable/Accountable
• Specific
• Research-based
High School StrategiesTo Improve Instruction NOW!
Ten Strategies for High Schools
Double Literacy and Math Time
Extend time when grade are due
Teaching Time and Project Management
Restrict Choice - Below Grade-Level Readers
Require nonfiction writing in every class
Increase student feedback
Teacher Collaboration
Create Common Assessments
Ban Administrative Announcements
WIN Program
Instructional Strategies
Step 5: Determine Results Indicators
• To monitor the degree of implementation and evaluate the effectiveness of strategies
• Serve as an interim measure
• Used to determine the effect an implementation strategy
• Used to determine if a strategy is having the desired impact
• Used to help determine midcourse corrections
Step 6: Monitor and Evaluate Results
• To engage in a continuos improvement cycle that:
• Identifies midcourse corrections where needed.
• Adjust strategies to ensure fidelity of implementation
Graph and Discuss Results...next steps
Step 2: Analyze Data to Prioritize Needs
Step 3:Establish
SMART GoalsStep 4:Select common
instructional strategies
Step 1: Collect and chart
data.
Step 6:Monitor and
Evaluate Results
Step 5:Determine Results
Indicators
The DecisionMaking for
ResultsSix-Step Process
pg. 19
“Instruction should not be a Ouija board game in which
teachers guess about what to do next. Educating kids is far too important for that sort of
approach...”
TimeMeeting 1 Develop Pre-Assessment
Meeting 2 Steps 1-4
Meeting 3 Monitor
Meeting 4 Develop C.F.A.
Meeting 5 Monitor
Meeting 6 Change Instructional Strategy
Meeting 7 Develop Post Assessment
Meeting 8 Analyze Data
Weekly Meetings
Data TeamTeam Leader
Guides the team through the Data Teams process steps
RecorderTakes minutes
Distributes minutes to Leadership Team
Data TechnicianCollect data by an identified date
Create or duplicate a simple graph
TimekeeperFollow time frames allocated on the
agenda.
Role of LeadershipMonitor the process...
...not lead the process.Review the agendaHelp make instructional decisions
Leadership Steps
• Learn your school’s curriculum
• Deep understand of C.C.S.S. Units of Study
• Understanding of Common Formative Assessments
Things to Think About• Time
• Consistent Meetings
• Logistics
• Knowledge about C.C.S.S. in your building
• Understanding of Common Formative Assessments
Weed the Garden