Leading D50 into data Walls Summer Symposium Presentation to D50 Leaders Katheryn Keyes , Copper Stoll & Jeni Gotto June 10, 2010

Data Walls Assessment is the first step in an effective teaching-learning cycle: Assessment is the key to effective teaching and learning. Evaluating the assessment results reveals the information needed to plan for instruction. Assessing Evaluating Planning Learning Copper Teaching

Using Data .. …the next issue is that of using the data so that instruction is characterized by precision and teaching is focused on the learning needs of each student. There is no value in assessing students if it does not impact learning and instruction. Fullan, Hill & Crevola, 2006 Copper

Read Doug Reeves’ article Guidelines for Data Walls or “The Science Fair for Grownups” Data Walls: A success story Guiding question: Why would data walls be a useful tool in our system? Text-based discussion: Read silently and with guiding question in mind, discuss in groups of 4- 5. Katheryn

Data Walls At the school level, data walls are an effective visual tool for representing student assessment data across the organization (classroom, school, district). It shows the results of interventions you have used to increase student achievement. Structure for the DAAC/BOE review October 2010 Jeni

youtube videos–Elementary & Secondary Data Walls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IljU6sNd8 bI Copper

Data Walls In a professional learning community, data analysis encourages collaboration and discussion among members of a school and across schools. Data analysis is an evolving, collegial event, not an isolated activity. Katheryn

Continuum of Collegiality derived from Judith Warren-Little Joint Work Ostrich: Sticks Head in the Sand Aiding & Assisting Scanning & Storytelling Undermines Sharing of Work True Sharing Leadership Role in Sharing Kat

Benefits of School Data Walls Encourages ownership Influences choices in instructional strategies Promotes a wider repertoire of instructional strategies Builds collaboration through a team approach Allows school teams to target sets of students for the school, for the performance level, for small groups, and/or individual students Katheryn

What would be the KPI data we would want to track school-wide? Turn to a partner and list kinds of data that would help to raise achievement How often should you track the data? Pair up with another twosome and compare ideas Share out with large group Copper

Benefits of Classroom Data Walls… Communication tool Useful in establishing guided reading groups (running record data wall) Quickly establishes those students who require additional assistance (intervention) Useful for tracking comprehension skills (Reaching Readers data wall) Supports budget decisions Supports capacity building Data walls influence decision-making Copper

What data would we want to track at the classroom level? Trios protocol: Find two different people to become a trio. Each person gets one minute to list the kinds of classroom data that would help to raise achievement How often should you track the data? Katheryn

An Effective Data Wall contains... The name of your school or class in the title Problem Intervention Effect Conclusion * P I E Copper- Show example Jeni show ipod touch C

Data Walls should look like… Privacy-Students’ names Spot with no access for students and/or parents Specific student’s data from a group can fit Updated regularly General Data-No names In a public spot All students’ data are recorded on the board Updated regularly Copper

One method to create School-wide Data Wall components: Problem External data, such as test scores Internal data, district/classroom testing data Interventions For Teachers For Students Effects/Evidence Conclusions (Drawn from the results) Copper

An Effective Classroom/School Data Wall Improving Student Test Scores Mr. Smith’s 10th Grade Academic Class at Grasso Tech Problem Test scores have decreased 10 percent over the last 4 years. Intervention We’re doing this intervention to help improve scores. Effect Here is how this intervention is working. The data shows how scores have changed over the last 4 months since afterschool tutoring began. Conclusion Based on the data, I conclude that Afterschool tutoring is/ is not helping boost test scores. Intervention: AFTERSCHOOL TUTORING Summary of what you’re doing, who you’re tutoring blah blah blah blah blah hopefully you use an intervention that has some kind of scientific basis and discuss this blah blah and more blah. Copper

An Effective Classroom/School Data Wall Improving Student Test Scores Mr. Smith’s 10th Grade Academic Class at Grasso Tech P * P I E C Problem Test scores have decreased 10 percent over the last 4 years. Intervention We’re doing this intervention to help improve scores. Effect Here is how this intervention is working. The data shows how scores have changed over the last 4 months since afterschool tutoring began. Conclusion Based on the data, I conclude that Afterschool tutoring is/ is not helping boost test scores. Intervention: AFTERSCHOOL TUTORING Summary of what you’re doing, who you’re tutoring blah blah blah blah hopefully you use an intervention that has some kind of scientific basis and blah blah and more blah. Copper

Examples of Ineffective data walls… Pros: Name of school Data Progress Attractive Cons: No stated problem No analysis of data Copper

Examples of Ineffective data walls… Pros: Has name of school Pictures Data Cons: No problem No intervention No effect No conclusion Copper

Discussion starters: Think about making your own data wall: What is hopeful about this data? Who are the students we need to target for additional support/acceleration/intervention? What are the learning expectations in language arts we must address with greater precision? What instructional strategies will assist us in improving student achievement?

Analyzing Data Walls- Data Driven Dialogue Explore Plan of Action Observations Explain

Using Data Walls… Educators say: “We can learn more and faster together than separately”. Data walls ensure that teams work on improvement using the data.

Workshop to make your own… Planning to make your own “Science Fair” backboard of your data You will be expected to complete a data wall for your school for the DAAC/BOE review in October.