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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. youtube videos–Elementary & Secondary Data WallsbI
Copper

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

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

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

20. 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?

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

22. 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.

23. 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.