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