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If we continue doing what

we have been doing, we
will continue to get what
we are getting.
-S. White

Data Driven Decision

Making

Talk to members of your team and be prepare to share your thoughts and
ideas.

Data-Driven Decision Making

O It provides a process to

identify needed
improvements, develop
a strategy to make the
improvements, make
adjustments along the
way, and learn lessons
from the process for
the next level of
improvement; hence it
is continuous. (White,
2013)

What now?
O Lets take a look at our

school vision
O We envision a supportive

learning environment that

inspires, energizes, and
challenges students,
staff, and families to
promote everyones
academic achievement
and personal growth and
prepare students for
college/career readiness.

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O Area of action on our

SIP is instructional
practices that support
student achievement
in literacy.
O How: Collaborative
teacher teams will
identify and
implement researchbased instructional
and assessment
strategies to increase
students achievement
in literacy.
O Information located on
U-Drive

Next Procedures
O No longer are we medical

examiners preforming an
autopsy.
O We receive the dead
body(PARCC data),
dissect it (look at PARCC
results) and determine
cause of death (subject
areas, achievement gaps,
subgroups, etc.), but we
cannot change the
results of the death
(PARCC scores).

So what are we going to do

with 2013 MSA data?
OImprove student literacy

following our SIP by:

O Incorporating reading

strategies in ALL classrooms

O Collaborate with teams to
record data of formative
classroom assessments
O Admin/LT classroom walkthroughs providing
feedback to teachers to
improve student
achievement, NOT used
towards any evaluations.

Standards for Reading

Foundational Skills
(RF)
RF4 Read with sufcient
accuracy and fuency to
support comprehension
RF4.c Use context to
confrm or self-correct word
recognition and
understanding, rereading
as necessary.

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Essential Skills and

Knowledge
O Use prior knowledge

and experiences to
confrm or selfcorrect word
recognition and
understanding.
O Use context clues,
sentence structure,
and visual clues to
guide self-correction.

How are we going to

incorporate reading
strategies to improve
reading comprehension?
O During CFIP, teams will

collaborate and determine

their own best practices, with
assistance from the ELA
teachers, to meet the needs
of all students in
comprehension. Admin is not
mandating or micromanaging
the instructional practices
being implemented, however,
they will be observing the
practices taking place in each
classroom and providing
feedback.

O Teachers will meet bi-

monthly to share
students work and
different types of
assessments monitoring
student progress.

O Key part of formative

assessments is to
assess for learning to
guide your instruction,
give accurate, timely
feedback to students,
and provide any
intervention or
enrichment necessary
(Husky Period).

Classroom Walk-throughs
O Completed at least twice a

marking period by admin/LT

O Feedback given to all teachers
individually and in a timely
manner to be effective
O Teachers will converse with
admin/LT to share thoughts and
ideas of strengths and
weaknesses of different
strategies (analyzing the data)

What
s
next?

We will be provided with

up-to-date information on
the progress of our
students by our newly
appointed data team.
Data will be provided at
least monthly, in the
form of MAP scores,
Lexile scores, school
and county reading
benchmarks, or data from
each team through
diferent types of
formative assessments.

What do we do with the

data?
O Over time, we will use

the data to continue

replicating what
strategies are
improving student
achievement and
subtracting ones that
are ineffective.
O We must look for
trends and patterns
and this will not occur
overnight.

Congratulations!
We are no longer medical examiners looking over
dead bodies. We have become expert surgeons
(data-driven decision makers) taking the oath:
Please stand and raise your right hand.
I solemnly swear
to practice this profession
with conscience and dignity,
making the learning of my students
my first consideration

For more information

O Crawford, D. Principal, E. Russell Hicks Middle

School. Personal communication, July 31, 2011.

O E. Russell Hicks Middle School Improvement
Team. (2012, August). Retrieved from U-Drive.
O Jenkins, Judy. (2011, June 6). Maryland Common
Core State Curriculum Framework English
Language. Retrieved from
http://mdk12.org/data/MSA/ProgressSelector.aspx
?Nav=1.2:5.2:10.21
O White, S. (2011). Beyond the numbers.
Englewood, CO: Advanced Learning Centers, Inc.