The analysis of data for instructional decision making is a hallmark of the 21st century. Teachers and administrators alike need a process that links instant, consistent, and relevant data to instant, consistent, and relevant results.
Data! Dialogue! Decisions! describes a simple process–selecting a piece of data, dialoging about the data, and making SMART goal decisions about how to increase student performance–that includes the critical elements for powerful school improvement: meaningful teams, managed data, and measurable goals. Using a collegial process, administrators and teachers choose their own school of class achievement data to analyze and interpret as they target ‘breakthrough’ instructional decisions that yield rapid and quantifiable results. Results have been staggeringly successful.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface
Introduction
What′s It All About?
What′s the History of Results-Driven Change?
How to Use This Book
1. The Data! Dialogue! Decisions! Process
Schmoker′s Model of Results-Driven Change
Introduction to the Data! Dialogue! Decisions! Process
2. Data!
A Sign of the Times
What Kinds of Data Exist?
What Kinds of Data Are Available?
How Are Data Collected?
How Are Data Used?
3. Dialogue!
Teaming to Ask and Answer the Questions
The Four Questions in Brief
The Four Questions in Full
Action Plan
Conclusion
The Coaches′ Meeting Revisited
4. Decisions!
SMART Goals
Instructional Decisions
5. Troubleshooting
Data! Issues
Dialogue! Issues
Decision! Issues
General Issues
Professional Development Issues
Appendix A: Data! Dialogue! Decisions! General Format
Appendix B: State Standards in Reading Example
Appendix C: A Tale of Two City Schools: Making the Difference With Data
Appendix D: People Search
Bibliography
Circa l’autore
Catherine Sambo is vice president of Kinney and Associates where she supervises site-based and field-based staff, provides a leadership role in all sales/marketing presentations, and designs and implements workshops relating to the relationships between curriculum, standards-based assessments, and student achievement. With more than a decade of educational consulting experience in over 300 schools Sambo offers her expertise in the collection and use of data for improving classroom instruction and student performance. She received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Loras College and a master’s degree in educational administration from Governors State University.
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