How to Utilize Data to Improve Student Achievement

SAGE Classroom Assessments School Climate

“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.” John Steinbeck

“Don’t measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions.” Seth Godin

SAGE ORS Online Reporting System Tools & Decision Making

Summative Scores are Autopsies

Classroom Assessments *Learning what students know *Instructional Feedback

Where am I going? Where am I now? Where am I going next?

Formative vs. Summative

80/20 rule

Obtrusive Unobtrusive Student Generated

Think like an assessor . . .

‘Embedding Formative Assessment’ by Dylan William ‘Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning’ by John Hattie ‘Visible Learning for Literacy Grades K-12: Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning’ By Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey

School Climate

10 Indicators of Organizational Health:   *GOAL FOCUS is the ability to have clarity, acceptance, and support for goals and objectives. 

 COMMUNICATION ADEQUACY is open two-way communication which travels both vertically and horizontally throughout the unit. 

 POWER EQUALIZATION is the ability to maintain a relatively equitable distribution of influence between team members and their leader. 

 RESOURCE UTILIZATION is the degree to which the leader knows and is able to coordinate the talents of team members with minimal stress. 

 COHESIVENESS is the state when a person, group, or organization has a clear sense of identity. Members feel attracted to the unit, want to stay with it, be influenced by it, and exert their own influence within it. 

 MORALE is the feeling of well-being, satisfaction, and pleasure for a person, group, or organization. 

 INNOVATIVENESS is that ability to be and to allow others to be inventive, diverse, creative, and risk- taking. 

 AUTONOMY is that state in which a person, group, or organization has the freedom to manage those things they believe should be within their sphere of influence. 

 *ADAPTATION is that ability to tolerate stress and maintain stability while coping with demands from the external environment. 

 PROBLEM SOLVING ADEQUACY is the organization's ability to perceive problems and to solve them with minimal energy. The problems get solved, stay solved, and the problem-solving mechanism of the organization is maintained and/or strengthened.