The Data Toolkit; Ten Tools for Supporting School Improvement

by Robert T. Hess

• ISBN13: 9781412992978
• ISBN10: 1412992974
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-01
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

The authors provide ten easy-to-use data analysis tools that facilitate problem-solving at school and district levels. Included are instructions, sample scenarios, reproducible, and case studies.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

Build Your Team

The Power of Relationships

Tool 1: The Smalley Team-Building Personality Test

Another Team-Building Strategy: Using Objects to Reflect Personalities

High-Functioning Teams

Improvement Means Change, and Change Means Conflict

Understanding How Change Occurs

Team Member Roles and Responsibilities

TIPS Framework for Data Teams

Additional Helpful Hints

Identify the Problem: Using Data to Transform Our Intentions

Tool 2: Identify the Problem

Using Data to Unpack the Problem of Mobility

Vertical Alignment and Mobility

Using Identify the Problem in a Classroom

Data Reflection Helps Budget Woes

a Happy Ending to Budget Woes

In the Field: Identify the Problem

Putting It All Together

The Three Guiding Questions: Making Instruction Work

Data and Conversation

Tool 3: Three Guiding Questions

How to Use Three Guiding Questions

Asking the Right Questions

The Power of Thinking

Corbett: a District That Thinks

Conversation Promotes Thinking and Reflection

In the Field: Three Guiding Questions

Putting It All Together

Analyze Your Students: Let the Data Decide

Teach to the Top

Analyzing Driving Quantitatively

Creating the Standard

Measuring to a Standard

The Kennewick Model

Analyzing Students in Local Districts

Classroom Example

In the Field: a Kindergarten Success

Putting It All Together

Four Quadrants: Creating Crosshairs With Data

Tool 5: Four Quadrants: Creating Crosshairs With Data

Reeves's Four Quadrants: Lucky, Leader, Loser, and Learner

Using the Four Quadrants to Gauge RTI Progress

Using the Four Quadrants to Analyze Classroom Data

Classroom Example: Third-Grade Classroom Data in Four Quadrants

Using the Four Quadrants to Analyze Grade-Level, School-Level, and District-Level Data

Teacher and Principal Effectiveness in Four Quadrants

Instructional Leadership Standards for Principals

Building Management Standards for Principals

Teacher Effectiveness in the Four Quadrants

Classroom-Based Instructional Standards

Non-Classroom-Based Standards

In The Field: Analyzing Freshman Failures

Putting It All Together

Wagon Wheel: Using Multiple Points of Data to Drive Instruction

Tool 6: Wagon Wheel

Mapping Fourth-Grade Writing on the Wagon Wheel

Reflecting on the Data

Using the Wagon Wheel to Measure InTASC Standards

Learner and Learning

Content Knowledge

Instructional Practice

Professional Responsibility

In The Field: Using the Wagon Wheel to Analyze RTI Effectiveness

Putting It All Together

Five Whys: The Power of Questions

Tool 7: Five Whys

Persistent Achievement Gaps

a Diverse District Beating the Odds

Schools Beating the Odds

The Power of Working Together

Teaching Students to Think

21st Century Skills: The Future is Now

In The Field: Implementing a Core Program

Putting It All Together

Relations Diagram: Discovering the Key Drivers

Tool 8: Relations Diagram

Tackling Discipline Problems

Motivating Students

In The Field: READ 180 Revisited

Putting It All Together

The Fishbone: Making a Difference With Data

Leadership Matters

Real Education Reform

Making a Difference in the Classroom

Tool 9: The Fishbone

Improving Tenth-Grade Math Scores

Everyone Writes

In The Field: Green Acres, The Place to Be

Putting It All Together

School Improvement Mapping: Making Strategic Decisions and Taking Action

Tool 10: School Improvement Mapping

Goal Setting

Using Data to Drive Goals

Clear Strategies

Specific Actions

Improving Writing Districtwide with Goals, Strategies, and Actions

Creating the Building Blocks of Excellence

Hiring the Best

Professional Development

Evaluation for Meaningful Feedback

Improving Instructional Feedback

The Power of Mentoring as an Improvement Tool

Moving to the Next Level: a New Model of Systemic Improvement

Running in Circles

Collaboration = Connectivity

Stepping Up to Collaboration

In The Field: High School Mentoring Project

Putting It All Together

Now What? Using the Tools in the Classroom, School, and District

The Smalley Team-Building Personality Test

Identify the Problem

Three Guiding Questions

Analyze Your Students

Four Quadrants

Wagon Wheel

Five Whys

Relations Diagram

The Fishbone

School Improvement Mapping

References

Index

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