1. What do we need to know, understand and be able to do?
Data Driven Dialogue in a Professional Learning Community … assessing student learning

2. How does data make you feel?
Let’s take a look!
Pictures

3. Here’s what …
Environment
Data vocabulary
Data format

4. Environment Create a culture of trust and collaboration Build capacity
Provide Professional Development focused on Effective Data Teams
Monitor the work
Modify actions along the way
Validate that what you are doing is working… fidelity and efficacy
Have folks identify the elements in a supportive environment on stickys and pass

5. How? Create “natural” teams Create teams for a purpose
Develop team norms for efficacy
Select protocols that support the team work
Meet frequently to examine the data (student work) to monitor student learning along the way
Brainstorm some natural groups

6. Data formats … Bar graphs Line graphs EXCEL spread sheets
Scatter plots
Tables
Authentic samples
Censograms
Show formats

7. Bar graphs

8. Table

9. Data vocabulary Keep it simple … but don’t dumb it down
Build on background knowledge
Make connections
Be consistent
Minimize new terminology … you can always add to the word bank
Begin with a specific data set you are going to examine
Look at a data set Create a sensogram, cluster some vocabulary

10. So what?
Important elements

11. What is important? Clarity Simplicity Consistency Relevancy Accuracy
Timeliness

12. Collaborative inquiry cycle …

13. Teachers as experts
The data collected need to be aligned with the standards and performance indicators
The curriculum needs to be aligned with the standards and performance indicators
The teaching needs to be aligned with the
standards and performance indicators
The learning will reflect understanding of the knowledge, skills and abilities articulated in the standards and performance indicators

14. Let’s begin the process…
Examine the data
Check for understanding
Model
Provide practice
Encourage data vocabulary
Reinforce, validate and promote leadership
Use one of the data sets

15. Now what? Why should we engage in these practices?
What are the next steps?
Create structures that support the work

16. Support
Encourage, assist and champion each other along the way and at the gate!

17. Bernhardt 1996
“What separates the schools that will be successful in their reform efforts from the ones that won’t is the use of one, often neglected, essential element – DATA”

18. Thank you! It was my pleasure to work with you today.
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