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USING DATA TO IMPROVE LEARNING FOR
ALL STUDENTS
Advancing Improvement in Education (AIE)Annual ConferenceOctober 18, 2012
Victoria L. BernhardtEducation for the Future
http://eff.csuchico.edu
What would it take to ensurestudent learning increases at
every grade level, in every subject area, and with every student?
Please
discuss
at your
tables.
Teachers and administrators must believe that all children can learn.
Schools must honestly reviewtheir data, especially classroom.
There must be one vision.
There needs to be one plan to implement the vision.
THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN
THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN
Curriculum, instructional strategies,
and assessments must be clear and aligned to the standards.
Staff need to collaborate and use
student, classroom, and school
level data related to standards
implementation.
THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN
Staff need professional learning to work differently.
Schools need to rethink their
current structures, and avoidadd-ons.
WHAT IS THE HARDEST PARTFROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE?
1. Beliefs that all children can learn.
2. Schools honestly reviewing their data.
3. One vision.
4. One plan to implement the vision.5. Curriculum, instructional strategies, and
assessments aligned to standards.6. Staff collaboration and use of data related to
standards implementation.
7. Staff professional learning to work differently.
8. Rethinking current structures to avoid add-ons.
Everyone knows— What is Continuous School
Improvement. What data are important for
continuous school improvement. How that data are important for
continuous school improvement. How to get started.
OUTCOMES
THINGS WE KNOW ABOUTIMPROVING STUDENT LEARNING
Quality of classroom instruction is
the single greatest predictor of
student learning and achievement.
Principal leadership is second . . .
Robert J. Marzano
THINGS WE KNOW ABOUT DATA USE
For data to be used to impact classroom instruction, there must be structures in place, to—
Implement a shared schoolwide vision/processes.
Help staffs review data and discuss improving processes.
Have regular, honest collaborationsthat cause learning.
LEARNING DEFINITION
Learning is the process
through which experience
causes permanent change in
knowledge or behavior.
Steven Katz
THREE POWERFUL INSIGHTSABOUT HOW PEOPLE LEARN
To develop competence (i.e., properly learn) in an area of inquiry, people must:
Learn new things (facts, ideas, etc.)
Understand those things in the context of a conceptual framework.
Organize their knowledge in ways that facilitate retrieval and application.
Reasons to Collect and Use Data—
DATA-INFORMED DECISION MAKING
Find out where you are
To understand how you got there Plan
Evaluate
Predict
What data do you use in
your school, and how do
you use the data? What do
you need to do to improve
your analysis of data?
Describe the context of the school and school district.
Help us understand all other numbers.
Are used for disaggregatingother types of data.
Describe our system and leadership.
DEMOGRAPHICS AREIMPORTANT DATA
Enrollment
Gender
Ethnicity / Race
Attendance (Absences)
Expulsions/Suspensions
Community data
DEMOGRAPHICS
Language Proficiency
Indicators of Poverty
Special Needs/Exceptionality
IEP (Yes/No)
Drop-Out/Graduation Rates
Program Enrollment
DEMOGRAPHICS (Continued)
School and Teaching Assignment
Qualifications
Years of Teaching Total/School
Gender, Ethnicity
Additional Professional
Development
STAFF DEMOGRAPHICS
WHAT STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICDATA ELEMENTS CHANGE WHEN
LEADERSHIP CHANGES?
Enrollment
Gender
Ethnicity/Race
Attendance(Absences)
Expulsions
Suspensions
Language Proficiency
Indicators of Poverty
Special Needs/ Exceptionality
IEP (Yes/No)
Drop-Out / GraduationRates
Program Enrollment
Help us understand whatstudents, teachers, and parentsare perceiving about the learning environment.
We cannot act different from what we value, believe, perceive.
PERCEPTIONS AREIMPORTANT DATA
Student, Staff, Parents,Alumni Questionnaires
Observations/Focus Groups
Student Interests
PERCEPTIONS INCLUDE
PERCEPTIONS
What do you suppose students
say is the #1 “thing” that has
to be in place in order for them
to learn?
Know what students are learning.
Understand what we are teaching.
Determine which studentsneed extra help.
STUDENT LEARNING AREIMPORTANT DATA
STUDENT LEARNINGDATA INCLUDE
Universal Screeners Diagnostic Assessments Assessments for Learning Formative Assessments
(Progress Monitoring)
Summative Assessments(High Stakes Tests, End of Course)
WHAT DO YOU USE FOR ASSESSMENT?
SCHOOL PROCESSESARE IMPORTANT DATA
Tell us about the way we work.
Tell us how we get the resultswe are getting.
Help us know if we haveinstructional coherence.
SCHOOL PROCESSES INCLUDE
Standards Implementation
Curriculum
Instructional Strategies
Assessment Strategies
Programs/Processes
WHAT PROGRAMS DO YOU USE?
Instructional Coherence.
A Shared Vision for School
Improvement.
Data-Informed Decision Making.
PRECONDITIONS FORSCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
HOW DOES A SCHOOL DO IT ALL?
State Standards
Data Teams/PLCs
Response to Intervention (RtI)
College and Career Readiness
Effective Use of Data toImprove Instruction
CREATINGA VISION AND MISSION
Comprehensive Data Analysis
Best Practices Learning
Curriculum—What we teach.
Instruction—How we teach the curriculum.
Assessment—How we assess learning.
Environment—How each person treats everyother person.
What are the factors that impact learning for our students?
“Shared visions emerge from personal
visions. This is how they derive
their energy and how they foster
commitment… If people don’t have
their own vision, all they can do is
‘sign up’ for someone else’s. The result
is compliance, never commitment.”
Peter Senge
The Fifth Discipline
EXAMPLESHARED VISION
The Mission of Marylin Avenue Elementary School is to enable ALL students to achieve their personal best, and to be respectful, thoughtful, and independent learners.
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RtI and CSI, Bernhardt and Hebért, 2011
How will you know the
students learned the
information?
What are we going to do when
students are proficient?
What are we going to do when
students are not proficient?
As you reflect on the
information you heard today,
what can you do to improve
student learning for all
students in your school?
REFLECTION
Challenge current processes with
data. Inspire a shared
vision. Enable others to act.
Model the way.
Encourage the heart.
The Leadership Challenge
LEADERSHIP
