WHEN?

PLC: Meet together at least once per month to discuss your data and make decisions based on it . . . share this info. with Leadership Team Leadership Team: Meet together the last Thursday of every month to share PLC data and goals with principal Classroom teachers: Work with students to create goals Follow through on your SMART goals Align your teaching and goals with CCSS Document and collect evidence of student growth continually both behavioral and academic Meet with students once per month to assess goal progress Share student progress with parents at least three times/year CSIP team: Diverse group of stakeholders including student representation! Meet together at least 3 times during the school year Plan a full-day meeting in the summer

Dont forget about yourself!

Learning is not only for the students teachers and staff need opportunities to grow as well. I will provide opportunities throughout the year for professional development that will be: Relevant to you as an educator Helpful in linking data with student learning Collaborative

Bring
Questions, Comments, and Suggestions

Student Improvement and Growth Community Connection School Improvement Achieved By . . .

To me creating a data culture is a team effort!

Data connect me to my students and their learning, push me to high levels of reflection on my practice, and spur me to engage in dialogue with colleagues, students, and parents.
Jennifer Morrison, classroom teacher

Creating a Data Culture

Check the calendar for dates and opportunities to meet!

Emily Ross

Emily Ross
D ata Sc hoo l

Remember to look at data from all angles: Are students who receive a daily breakfast growing in their learning faster than those that dont?

Data is more than test numbers . . .

IDENTIFY
Our schools are diverse . . . we need to have our fingers in the play-dough of our school in order to mold it correctly. Classroom Teachers need to continually use formative assessment to gauge where their students are at and plan studentgrowth goals accordingly. Grade/Subject/PLC need to meet regularly to look at collected data and plan for common assessments. CSIP Team Members need to look at the school as a whole and use collected data from many sources to judge where the school is strong and where it can improve. RTI Meetings need to be held early and consistently throughout the year with many players such as principal, counselor, teacher, TITLE, Sped, etc. to look at collected layers of data and identify areas of need.

Data involves all information we collect. Once we collect this information, we reflect on how to use it appropriately to improve student learning and growth, community involvement, and continual school improvement: And this is only the start! By using data to inform our decision-making, we can IDENTIFY where we need to improve, PLAN on how to do this, and IMPLEMENT changes for improvement. Once the trends have been discovered, decide as an individual, a team, a school, etc. what plan needs to be implemented.

IMPLEMENT

Resources for a data culture

Performance Plus o Student Data/Demographics/Groups o Graphs/Charts/Plots E-mail/ Newsletters/Edline o Communicate with parents o 2-way-street looking at data outside of school OSPI and http://tpep-wa.org/ o Rubrics o Sample assessments District office o Pre-made graphs and charts o Assessments Principal and main office

PLAN
Data needs to be looked at through different filters in order to create an accurate plan. Once a problem has been identified, dig into the data and discover base-line issue and trends. Do we need to focus on specific skills across a grade level or is there a trend showing students groups such as ELL are falling through the cracks?

Throughout the entire planning process, document, document, document, and keep key players involved in your decision-making process.

Finally, implement your changes. While you are implementing, be transparent and intentional about your changes. Remember to Get your fingers in document the play-dough everything and continue to collect be involved in data data. collection, Change takes analysis, and time, so dont be discouraged if the. implementation! results you hope to see dont appear immediately. Continue to collaborate with your team(s) about the data, and use this collected data to modify your plan if necessary.

Think of Data as Your Receipt

Data is not just numbers and statistics. It is collected information. And this collected information can be used to show others that you are helping your students grow. Remember to use formative data daily: are you getting blank stares, are students able to diagnose their own level of understanding by showing thumbs up or down? How do you know when that light-bulb moment is reached all of this is also data!! Document what you are already doing and keep this documentation as a receipt!

You are not alone

I am here to help you! Bring your questions to me, share your frustrations as well as triumphs, and let us work together as we use data to help our students and our school improve. Collaboration is the name of the game in a data culture. Working together with your PLC is the best way to share ideas, focus on improvements, and get to the bottom of how to help all our students. TPEP Is designed to help us establish a culture of data. By continually focusing on student growth, how our instruction meets CCS, documenting our evidence, and collaborating as teams and a school, we will automatically be creating a culture where data helps shape our decisions as well as link us to our district and state leaders, who are there to support us as we support our students.