1. Education Leaders Conference: Using Data to Improve Instruction
Council of Chief State School Officers
Education Leaders Conference: Using Data to Improve Instruction
Sponsored by SEC SCASS
Milwaukee
September 8-10, 2008

2. Problem ? Data ? Educators have lots of Data
Appropriate data to assist/Guide teachers ?
Instruction – Standards – Assessments
Data at teacher and classroom level
Leadership on using integrated data systems
a) Describe b) Interpret c) Apply

3. Conference Themes SEA leadership on Initiatives with Data
Results with formative Classroom Assessment
Use of Surveys of Enacted Curriculum tools/data
Access to data in integrated systems—Capacity building
Training for education leaders on using data
Discussions: Sharing ideas, problems, strategies

4. Breakout Sessions -- Strands
Inquiry-focused practice –how data used
Research findings and applications
Leadership with SEC and other data tools

6. K-12 Mathematics Content
Basic Algebra NAEP

7. Ohio Enacted Curric.-Gr. 3 Teachers
Intended (3rd Grade Math Indicators)

8. The SEC has an entire section in the Instructional practices Part of the Survey focusing on Professional Development. In this example, the questions compare time spend on PD in workshops and in-service, summer institutes and conferences, between the Reading First and the Random Group.
In this example, the RF group reported spending more time in workshops and conferences than the Random Group. Additionally, Grade 1 RF teachers reported slightly higher numbers than both grade 2 and Grade 3 (Grade 4 is shown on this chart as a default function of the report generator, but the data is not relevant). Teachers in both groups spent about the same amount of time in summer institutes or conferences

9. Surveys of Enacted Curriculum
Standards
Assessment
Educational standards, accountability, and standard’s based curriculum have emerged in the past decade as the favored approach for achieving a “world-class” education for all students. The survey was developed to provide states, districts, and schools the ability to measure the impact of standards in their locale. The underlying premise is that when standards, assessments, are aligned to classroom practice and content, levels of student achievement rise.
Curriculum

10. The SEC Data-set SUMMARY MEASURES Content Practice Climate Prof. Dev.
Instructional
Content
Instr.
Activities
Tchr.
Char./Opinions/Beliefs
Professional
Development
Mathematics
English Language
Arts & Reading
Science
Social Studies
SUMMARY MEASURES
Content
Practice
Climate
Prof. Dev. /

11. Key Question addressed by SEC Tools/Data
How can Educators obtain reliable, valid data to determine Alignment of instruction with required standards and assessments?

12. SEC Data Applications
Alignment analysis – degree of consistency of Instruction, Standards, Assessments
Instructional improvement in schools
Needs assessment/ Evaluation
Indicators – monitoring change over time
Observation of classrooms, teacher logs are rich sources of data to inform teachers about their collective practice. It is a more expensive and time consuming activity to collect the needed data by these means.

13. States /Districts Active with SEC Tools and Data : 2001 - present
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Delaware
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
New Hampshire
New York
North Carolina
Ohio

14. States /Districts Active with SEC Tools and Data : 2001 - present
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin

15. SEC by the Numbers: ’07-08 12,100 SEC Teacher Surveys (30 states) Math
Science
ELAR
Soc Stud
ELD (SEC ELL Consortium)
Standards or Assessment documents
Alignment analysis

16. Panel of Chief State School Officers
State Education Improvement Initiatives and Use of Data?
PANEL
Gene Wilhoit, CCSSO Executive Director, (Facilitator)
Elizabeth Burmater, Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction
Valerie Woodruff, Delaware Secretary of Education
Susan Zelman, Ohio State Superintendent of Education