1. Closing the Achievement Gap:
Using Mileposts for
Intervention Strategies

2. Presentation Focus: Administrators and Teachers
Who are you? User Experience
Personal Experience: Results
Set the Tone
Look at the Data: Make it pop
Achievement Data: Big Picture to Small Picture
Fall Goals
Spring To Spring Growth
Comparison: Teacher to Teacher
Individual Students
Training and Recall
Setting up Learning Goals
Advanced Filtering and List Manager
Monitoring Plans and Interventions

3. Recognition Reinforcing Positive Behavior
Learners of the Month
Four positives to every negative
Reinforcing Positive Behavior
Excellence in LEP Instruction
Catch kids doing Good Things

4. Kids Solving Problems Another Way

5. Getting ready for next year
ISAT Testing
Getting ready for next year

6. Looking at Data :
LEP: : 7% : 22%

7. “Basic Math” classes had flat growth levels
Intervention Decisions Based on Data and Discussion
Math P & A % Data shows:
2004
White
Hispanic
SWD
LEP
Econ
76.5%
83%
40%
42%
38%
44%
What trends did we identify and Foresee?
“Basic Math” classes had flat growth levels
Highest achieving students had minimal growth
Huge Achievement Gap in Sub Categories
Demographics were going to change radically in the next five to seven years with 3-5x growth in Hispanic and ESL

8. What changes did we make because of the data trends we found?
Basic Math was set up to teach kids at their level
Flat Growth
Double Dip Kids – Math lab to Foundational Math
Advanced Kids were getting Straight A’s, but showed minimal growth or decline
Bouncing off the ceiling
Advanced math classes in a leveled program
Huge Achievement Gap
40 Point Difference in sub groups
Needed a true reading program: Read 180
Testing was not part of our Culture
Huge Gap, no accountability
Mileposts – teacher Goals, Spring to Spring growth results, and PLC’s
Kids not prepared
Low Scores and decline
Incentives, recognition, and training – Show them the data too and their ranking!

9. Look at our Data
Group
% Tested
Reading
Math
Language
Science
State
99.4%
92.2%
88.1%
74.2%
53.4%
District
99.9%
94.2%
90.6%
89.0%
80.7%
WRMS
100%
96.6%
91.4%
89.6%
81.7%
White
93.9/97.8/99.1
90.2/94.5/94.7
Hispanic
84.8/86.1/90.2
79.3/82.3/83.6
LEP
67.8/78.5/83.5
63.6/75.4/75.3
Econ. Disadv
88.2/88.3/91.9
83.0/84.4/85.2
SWD
62.3/78.6/89.1
53.5/66.9/70.5

10. Do We Have a Data Flat Line?

11. Misconceptions and Faulty Perceptions
Reflecting On Data:
Misconceptions and Faulty Perceptions
VS.
Disaggregating, Trending and Drilling Down

12. Big Picture
Small Picture

13. Disaggregating the Data to the Smallest Picture: Individual Students
Bad Teacher?
Amazing Teacher?
Missed two questions: 7th Grade
Perfect Score
6th Grade

14. Percentages of Proficient and Advanced 2004-2011
ISAT Math
Percentages of Proficient and Advanced

15. Percentage of Proficient and Advanced 2004-2011
ISAT Reading
Percentage of Proficient and Advanced

16. Medium Picture: Classroom by Classroom
Fall
Teacher Goal Sheets

17. Data Straight from Mileposts – You just use Fill-in Color
Medium Picture: Classroom by Classroom
Critical need for support and/or remediation – Below Proficient or Low Proficient

18. Spring to Spring Growth
Changing Levels of Proficiency
Gaining on AYP in the P&A %

19. Big Picture: Whole School Teacher by Teacher
Decisions
Based on what the Data Illuminates ☠

20. Looking at Cohort Data Biggest Picture District and State
Math ISAT Data
Why the decline in 7th grade?

21. Biggest Picture
District and State
Cohort Data
ISAT Reading Data
Seeing Steady and continuous growth

22. Screen Casts to Help You After the Session
Advanced Filtering and List Manager
Building Goal Sheets
Monitoring Plans and Interventions
Take Away Tips
Screen Casts to Help You After the Session