1. Guiding Questions What are your general reactions to the data?
What questions do these data raise for you?
What solutions can you think of to address the issues raised by these data?

2. Smarter Balanced Grade 3 English Language Arts/Literacy Performance, by Ethnicity (2016-17)
Source: California Department of Education, 2017 (accessed Oct. 2017).

3. Smarter Balanced Grade 11 Math Performance, by Ethnicity (2016-17)
11th graders who score in the Standard Exceeded range are considered ready for college-level math upon entering a CSU or California community college and may directly enroll in a for-credit math course without taking a placement exam or first enrolling in a developmental math course.
Source: California Department of Education, 2017 (accessed Oct. 2017). In 11th grade, Standard Met = “conditionally college ready”; Standard Exceeded = “college ready.” Students not meeting the “college ready” benchmark by the time they enroll at CSU are required to take remedial coursework.

4. Cohort Graduation Rates, by Ethnicity (2015-16)
Source: California Department of Education, 2017 (accessed Oct. 2017).

5. 12th Grade A-G Completion, by Ethnicity and Gender (2015-16)
Source: California Department of Education, 2017 (accessed Oct. 2017).

6. Suspension, by Ethnicity (2016-17)
Source: California Department of Education, 2017 (accessed Oct. 2017).

7. …Add additional slides with any other data of interest, using the Commonly Used Data Sources document for ideas! Also, feel free to mix and match with the ready-made state-level slides in the PDF under Option 1.