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We have set up a room to serve as our "Data Den." The image above shows one grade level's data charts. We meet regularly in this room to examine data, celebrate student achievement, plan for student needs, acknowledge each other's talents, and build additional skills. By displaying grade-level data where all can see it has helped us become more of a team and to take ownership of all students.
Contributor:
Jason Bednar, principal, Owen Elementary School, Naperville, Illinois
Using Data Rooms to Map Your Way to Success
Got data? Most administrators would say of course. The trick is to get it off the shelves and into the open. By setting up data rooms to display, track, and analyze information, administrators can make meaningful, measurable changes in their schools. Included: Tips for setting up a data room.
Data Is Making a Difference in These Schools
Many schools are using collected data to drive change. Test scores are analyzed; survey instruments provide feedback; and data is used to group students and assign teachers. Included: Learn from principals who are using data to lead change and to lead their schools to success.
Making Data Work for Your School
Most educators today probably would balk at the mention of more testing, but when results from interim assessments are used to tweak the curriculum and applied to individual learning, schools often see gains.
My Three Favorite Things: Data, Data, and Data
"Educators, as a breed, are afraid of data," says Principal Pete Hall. "We treat them like contagious numerical pathogens. After all, for decades we have been the evaluators, but now we are the evaluatees, often left to the mercy of unpleasant school designations..."
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