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Data-Informed Decision-Making
Education leaders need to know what leads to better teaching and learning and, in response, many states and districts are devising systems to gather and analyze reliable data that is diagnostic and constructive. Using data to drive instructional decisions includes performing analysis of data, communicating findings across a school or district and changing practices based on data interpretation. Resources in this category share evidence and stories of how states, districts and schools can effectively use instructional data to improve the learning of adults and children throughout their systems.
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Mining for Meaning in Michigan’s Data Book
A principal at Boynton Montessori School in Michigan believes that using data, talking about data and developing instructional strategies based on data are essential strategies in operating a school. This article focuses on how this principal uses data to begin conversation with her faculty, identify the strengths and weaknesses of students, makes operational changes at her school, judges progress toward instructional goals and identify areas that where the school needs extra help. The principal’s leadership has motivated teachers to embrace the usage of data in their daily work and that work is paying off in student achievement results. |
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Making State Accountability Count
This article profiles New Mexico's work to give schools easier access to better data, provide experts to assist in querying the data and to increase data literacy among education leaders. New Mexico’s data-literacy program transformed raw data collected from state assessments into queries that leaders could use to create policies and shape instruction. Districts have commissioned short-cycle assessments to gain more immediate feedback on student progress and are now tracking students longitudinally. Soon, superintendents and principals will have access to a data warehouse that will hold information on budget, student achievement and staffing. |
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Data-Informed Leadership in Education
This report one of six state-of-the-field reports, details how educational leaders access data, the meaning they assign to it, and how the use data to improve teaching and learning. The report recognizes that data does not provide leaders a clear direction for action; rather that data used in educational settings is complex and indefinite. |
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Buried Treasure: Developing a Management Guide from Mountains of School Data
This report from CRPE explores what is required to develop a school district “management guide” and provides an actual guide built on evidence-based indicators. The seven indicators that Celio and Harvey have identified are achievement, elimination of the achievement gap, student attraction, student engagement with the school, student retention/completion, teacher attraction and retention, and funding equity. Using these indicators can provide schools with the information that is necessary to reach conclusions about how schools are functioning. |
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Georgia Schools Examine What Works
This Education Update article summarizes Georgia’s efforts to take school improvement to a larger scale. It describes the research base and the model that the state’s Department of Education used to turn individual school improvement into a statewide initiative. Using surveys and data triangulation, Georgia’s education officials are able to target areas that need the most attention.
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