1. Data Digging Leadership Consultant Group October 8, 2012
Blurring the Lines
Data Digging
Leadership Consultant Group
October 8, 2012
The role of Special Education is moving towards a service within the general education curriculum.
Inclusion, as appropriate, can work with the right accommodations.
Students with IEP’s do succeed within a GE setting given the right accommodations.
Data digging assists in aligning curriculum.

2. Activity: Pair and Share: Introduce self to partner
Activity: Pair and Share: Introduce self to partner. Talk about role and where you work. Discuss how you or your district uses data. Paper around room. With partner – add data uses to appropriate paper. Individual students/ classroom/ school/ district
Data Review

3. What tools are used? Discuss types of data seen in district
How is the data used?

4. What is the purpose? Data gathering Information
Making choices using data
Sound decisions
Mitch – activity: Measuring tape – measure 4 things; enter answers. How can we use this data. Give a bigger picture.

5. MiSchool Data Portal (Mitch) What does this tool do?
Public Side vs Private Side
Gen Ed Inquiries
SPED Inquiries

6. 3 Win Template Discuss LRE and how it affects student progress
Compare:
State
ISD
District
School
Grade
Subject
What else do we want to know? Graduation rates? Drop out rates? Free and reduced lunch? Transience?
Does this come from the MiCIS site or someplace else?

7. MEAP TRENDS
Activity – Mitch: Template % of proficiency SWD/SWO 5 year trend

8. Comparing Reading & Math
(Mitch)
Using the template, record the Item, GLCE, and gap for the largest area in math and reading.

9. SPP Indicators Drop out Graduation LRE
Comparison worksheet (Lynne) by disability
Add drop out rate and graduation rate to LRE
What is the difference between GE/SE graduation rates
reasons?
hypothesis
action steps

10. Dashboards
Mitch

11. Just a Tool…
“A tool is any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal.” - Wikipedia ?
Lynne
Mitch – Tools
If you don’t have a goal in mind there isn’t a tool that can help you.
Small groups
What do we need to further explore – share out