How Arkansas is Effectively Using Data to Guide Instruction Holly Glover, Director of Data Use & Privacy
How Arkansas is Effectively Using Data to Guide Instruction
Holly Glover, Director of Data Use & Privacy
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Arkansas Stakeholder Engagement Sessions
• ~759 stakeholders provided detailed feedback
• In-person workshop sessions were held at various locations across the state • Northwest• Wilbur D. Mills• Southwest• Arch Ford• Jonesboro
• Webinars & Survey for participants unable to attend
Stakeholders across the state were invited to provide feedback into the development of the Arkansas StudentGPS Dashboards
Northwest Co-op Farmington
Wilbur D. Mills Co-op, Beebe
Southwest Co-op, Beebe
Jonesboro School District
Arch Ford Co-op
What We Learned
• Centralized location to find everything needed so more time could be spent on instruction
• Customizable to fit needs
• User-friendly
• No Duplicate Entry
• Additional Features
Teachers Schools Districts
• Ability to view school information and individual classes to identify strengths & weaknesses
• Ability to sort based on grade levels, subpopulations, etc.
• Export feature
• Identify areas of weakness across the district
• Identify trends across data sets
• Set goals for district/schools
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Timeline – StudentGPS Dashboards
Spring 2013 (Pilot)• 4 Districts
2013-2014• 116 Districts
2014-2015• All Districts Eligible
242 districts
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How Do the Dashboards Work?
Student Demographic Information
Transcript
Grades & Credits
Student Growth
PercentileAttendance
Discipline
State & Local Assessments
Updated Nightly
SMS
Course Codes
Job Codes
Educator
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Student Information
• Parent/Guardian Information
• Emergency Contacts
• Transportation Information
• Medical Alerts
• Academic Informationo Grade Levelo Expected Graduation Yearo Curriculum Plano GPA
• Program Statuso 504o Gifted/Talentedo Bilingual Program
• Other Student Informationo TAGGo Homelesso Migranto Retained
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Academic Dashboard
• Overview
• Attendance & Discipline
• State Assessments
• Local Assessments
• Grades & Credits
• Advanced Academics
• College & Career Readiness
• Interventions
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Academic Dashboard
• Overview
• Attendance & Discipline
• State Assessments
• Local Assessments
• Grades & Credits
• Advanced Academics
• College & Career Readiness
• Interventions
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Academic Dashboard
• Overview
• Attendance & Discipline
• State Assessments
• Local Assessments
• Grades & Credits
• Advanced Academics
• College & Career Readiness
• Interventions
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Academic Dashboard
• Overview
• Attendance & Discipline
• State Assessments
• Local Assessments
• Grades & Credits
• Advanced Academics
• College & Career Readiness
• Interventions
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Academic Dashboard
• Overview
• Attendance & Discipline
• State Assessments
• Local Assessments
• Grades & Credits
• Advanced Academics
• College & Career Readiness
• Interventions
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Academic Dashboard
• Overview
• Attendance & Discipline
• State Assessments
• Local Assessments
• Grades & Credits
• Advanced Academics
• College & Career Readiness
• Interventions
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Academic Dashboard
• Overview
• Attendance & Discipline
• State Assessments
• Local Assessments
• Grades & Credits
• Advanced Academics
• College & Career Readiness
• Interventions
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Academic Dashboard
• Overview
• Attendance & Discipline
• State Assessments
• Local Assessments
• Grades & Credits
• Advanced Academics
• College & Career Readiness
• Interventions
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Classroom Teacher Page
The dashboards are
FERPA compliant
ensuring teachers only
have access to view
students assigned to
him/her. From the
homepage, teachers have
the ability to view all of
the students and all of
the relevant data in one
view.
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School/District Administrator
School Administrators
have the ability to view
information for the
entire school including:
• School Information
• Academic
Dashboard
• Set Goals
• View Teacher’s
Pages
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Dynamic ListCreate A Dynamic List
Dynamic List will populate a
list of students based on the
criteria selected.
The teacher can be alerted
via email when a student is
added or drops off the list.
Examples
• Attendance
• Interventions
• Grades
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Local Assessment Templates
Educators can enter data
for the following
assessments directly into
the dashboards:
• DIBELS 6th
• DIBELS Next
• DSA
• DRA
• STAR
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Classroom DIBELS Overview
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Usage ReportsUsage reports include
how the dashboards are
being used by the user:
• Logins
• Consistency
• Session Time
• Page Actions
• Page Views:
Printed or Exported
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• Statewide Training – Educational Service Cooperatives
• Website with tutorials & resources
• Webinars
• Showcase successful districts/schools
• Listserve for Research & Technology
• Commissioner Memos
• Continuous feedback process
• Advisory Council
Implementation
242 Districts
95% Adoption Statewide
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• Educator Effectiveness - Provide documentation of data use tied back to Arkansas Teacher Excellence Support System (TESS)
• Instructional Improvemento Analyzing data
o Setting goals
o Adjusting instruction
• Partnerships with local universities – Teacher Prep Programs
• Training - Using Data to Guide Instruction
Connecting the Pieces
StudentGPS Demo Site
District AdministratorUsername: Districtadmin
School AdministratorsUsername: HSAdmin
TeacherUsername: HSTeacher
Password: adetraining
http://adeedfidemo.arkansas.gov
Additional InformationStudentGPS Website
Contact Information
Holly [email protected]
501-683-4230
https://adedata.arkansas.gov/sgps/Default.aspx
Questions/Comments