1. Keeping the Focus on Student Success
A systematic approach to creating a platform for engaging focused data talks

2. Lee Courville
Director of Elementary Academic Programs
Eric Penrod
Director of Secondary
Academic Programs
Dr. Janice Mauldin
Assistant Superintendent
of Academic Programs

4. Prominent educational researchers have long decried education as a field in which practitioners make decisions based on intuition, gut instinct, or fads (Slavin, 2002)

5. Successful districts in the current era of standards, standardized testing, and demands for evidence of the quality of performance, invest considerable human, financial and technical resources in developing their capacity to assess the performance of students, teachers, and schools, and to utilize these assessments to inform decision making about needs and strategies for improvement, and progress toward goals at the classroom, school, and district levels. --Anderson

6. What are focused data talks?
What are the elements of a systematic approach for focused data talks?
How do we engage in focused data talks?

7. TEACHER
LEADERS

8. Within every school there is a sleeping giant of teacher leadership, which can be a strong catalyst for making change. (Katzenmeyer and Moller, 2001)

9. Building Communities of Practice
Principal
Collaborative
Learning
Assistant
Teacher
Leaders

11. What speaks to you?

12. Choose one of the following quotes based on your strongest reaction after reading it
Think about why the quote evoked the strongest reaction
Be prepared to share out with the group

13. We have to transform the way we think about data from a hammer that’s going to hurt teachers to a flashlight that’s going to help them. -- Data Quality Campaign ED Aimee Guidera 1

14. The idea is fairly simple: If analyzed correctly, student test data can tell educators what works in the classroom and what needs to change. It can tell administrators where to invest resources and which educators are effective. And it can help parents better understand how their children are learning. -- Data Quality Campaign ED Aimee Guidera 2

15. We have an opportunity to blow the lid off school attainment, dramatically and swiftly reduce the achievement gap and enhance the “life chances” of all children, regardless of their economic or social circumstances. Mike Schmoker 3

16. “To assess student achievement accurately, teachers and administrators must understand the achievement targets their students are to master. They cannot assess (let alone teach) achievement that has not been defined”. Richard J.Stiggins 4

17. Sharing

18. People without information cannot act
People without information cannot act. People with information cannot help but act.
Ken Blanchard

19. 1. What are focused data talks?
Non-emotional look at Student Data
Springboard for problem solving
Drives decisions for the future
Ongoing

21. It is not…….
an autopsy

22. It is…….
Diagnostic

24. How do you use data?
Discuss with an elbow partner how data is used on your campus/district
You will have 10 minutes
Choose a spokesperson to share out with the larger group

25. Sharing

26. System of Interlocking Relationships

27. Student Data Alignment Instructional Parental Engagement Materials
Involvement
Instructional
Technology
Goals
Accountability
Curriculum
Leadership
Development
Programs
Student Data
PDAS
Instruction
C,C,C
Budgeting
Collaboration
Professional
Development
Observations
Common
Language
Assessments

28. 2. What are the elements of a systematic approach for focused data talks?

29. Elements of a Systematic Approach for
Implementation
Elements of a Systematic Approach for
Focused Data Talks
Foundation
Culture
Data Management
Data
Capacity
Analyze Data and Next Steps

30. Foundation for Data Driven Decisions
Specific measurable goals
District
School
Classroom
Student
Implementation
of a system-wide
curriculum

31. Culture of Purposeful Use of Data
Explicit Expectations
Explicit Norms
Mutual Accountability

32. Culture of Purposeful Use of Data
Explicit Expectations
All data is revealed
All teachers analyze data
Everyone takes personal responsibility for and acts upon data
No excuses

33. Culture of Purposeful Use of Data
Explicit Norms
Teachers prepare data by a specified date
Teachers analyze their class data, meet with the grade level to analyze data, and meet with the department to analyze data
Data will be analyzed objectively without emotion
Decisions will be made regarding instructional practices for future lessons
Data will be analyzed throughout the school year

34. Culture of Purposeful Use of Data
Mutual Accountability
Every person, regardless of position, has a moral and professional obligation to provide the best education possible to the students we serve
Data is shared with EVERYONE

35. Data Management System
Timely
Accessible
User-friendly

36. The Right Data Student Achievement Instructional Practice
9 Weeks
Tests
Daily Work
Other assessments
Instructional Practice
Goal Implementation
Curricular
Resource Allocation
Programs
Planning Decisions

37. Capacity for Data Driven Decision Making
Invest in Professional Development
Provide support on how to use data and model use of data and data discussions
Provide time for teacher collaboration
Share data and improvement strategies across the district

38. Analyze Data and Create Next Steps
Immediate Feedback
Data Analysis Protocols
Goal Monitoring Reports
Administrators
Teachers
Students
Next Steps

39. In God we trust. All others must bring data.
Robert Hayden, Plymouth State College

40. Data Talks District/Principal Data Talks Principal/T.L.
Implementation
Student Data
Plan
Teach
Review
Assess
Data Talks District/Principal
Data Talks Principal/T.L.
Data Talks T.L./Teacher
Reteach
Reassess

41. Implementation
Student Data
Plan

42. Plan Unpack TEKS/Student Expectations Year at a Glance Curriculum
Alignment
Content
Context
Concept

43. Implementation
Student Data
Plan
Teach

44. Teach
Content
Context
Concept
Rigor
Engagement

45. Implementation
Student Data
Plan
Teach
Review

46. Review
Review content in different contexts at the appropriate conceptual level
Include STAAR formatted questions
Broader scope than what will be tested
Reteach during review if necessary (mini lessons)

47. Implementation
Student Data
Plan
Teach
Review
Assess

48. Assess Assess with STAAR formatted questions
Assessment will not cover all tested TEKS in all contexts
Assessment results collected and analyzed
Data drives next instructional steps

49. Data Talks District/Principal Data Talks Principal/T.L.
Implementation
Student Data
Plan
Teach
Review
Assess
Data Talks District/Principal
Data Talks Principal/T.L.
Data Talks T.L./Teacher

50. 3. How do we engage in focused data talks?

51. Data Talks District and Principal Principal and Teacher Leader
Teacher Leader and Teacher
During each of the data talks, next steps are determined as well as a process for updates on progress

52. Preparing for data talks
Setting
Time
Documents
Attendees
Communication
Discussion
Blame game

53. Documents

54. Assessment Results Report from Data Management System
Teacher/ Class Report
By student
Listed in order of answers correct (top to bottom)
For each student indicate:
All Student Groups
Raw Score
Item Response Report
By student
Listed in alpha order
Item Analysis Report
By student
Proficiency Category

55. Conducting Focused Data Talks
Quiet private location (uninterrupted)
Set the tone
Communication
Discussion
Blame game
Ask probing questions (see question bank)
Create next steps/plan to address areas in need of improvement

56. Data Talks District/Principal Data Talks Principal/T.L.
Implementation
Student Data
Plan
Teach
Review
Assess
Data Talks District/Principal
Data Talks Principal/T.L.
Data Talks T.L./Teacher
Reteach

57. Re-Teach Students are retaught concepts to be tested Individual
Small Group
Whole Class

58. Data Talks District/Principal Data Talks Principal/T.L.
Implementation
Student Data
Plan
Teach
Review
Assess
Data Talks District/Principal
Data Talks Principal/T.L.
Data Talks T.L./Teacher
Reteach
Reassess

59. Re-Assess Students are reassessed using a different test from the TBA
Students are reassessed only on the areas not mastered

60. Data Talks Principal/T.L. Data Talks District/Principal
Sustained
Student Data
Plan
Teach
Review
Assess
Data Talks T.L./Teacher
Data Talks Principal/T.L.
Data Talks District/Principal
Reteach
Reassess

61. Data Tables

67. Director of Elementary Academic Programs hcourville@mfisd.txed.net
Lee Courville
Director of Elementary Academic Programs
Eric Penrod
Director of Secondary Academic Programs
Dr. Janice Mauldin
Assistant Superintendent of Academic Programs