Specialized Training Program: Investing in Teacher Practice to Maximize Student Learning Investment Schools Data Inquiry Training Session II.

Specialized Training Program:Investing in Teacher Practice to

Maximize Student Learning

Investment Schools Data Inquiry TrainingSession II

Session Objectives

Participants will:

• Use individual data analysis completed in Session I to collaboratively identify school wide areas of need

• learn and utilize a protocol for data analysis utilizing new community and School Experience Survey data

• Analyze the school team’s data-readiness needs

• Draft a summary statement of goals that the team can commit to working towards through the remaining Investment Schools training opportunities.

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Norms

– Take an inquiry stance

– Ground statements in evidence

– Assume positive intentions

– Stay low on the ladder of inference

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Turn and Talk: What would these norms look like in action?

Activity #1: Last Word Protocol

 Guiding Question: Based on our individual analyses completed in Session I, what area(s) of need are most pressing for us to address as a school community?

Last Word Protocol Steps:  Grouping: Groups of 5-7

1. Count off into groups of 5; each person will select one quote and let members of the group know where in the text this quote can be found. The person does not explain its significance.

2. The rest of the group discusses the quote.3. The first person reads the significance or explains the significance

of the quote. In others words, this person gets the last word. 4. Move on to the next person until everyone I the group has had a

chance to have the last word. 5. Share out

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Activity 2: Affinity ProtocolGuiding Question: Based on our individual analyses completed in “Last Word,”, what area(s) of need are most pressing for us to address as a school community?

Affinity Protocol Steps:  Grouping: Groups of 5-7

1. Take 5-7 sticky notes and record 1 concern raised in your analysis on each sticky note

2. With your group, arrange the sticky notes on chart paper3. Sort the sticky notes into groups and give each group a name

or label4. As a group, write 1-2 sentences about the patterns/trends 5. Share out

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School Risk Load: School, Community, and Student-identified challenges

Insert the data for your school here. You may need several slides to accomplish this, or you may prefer to use handouts instead.

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Activity #3: Data Analysis Protocol

Step Actions

Step 1 Look at the data and make factual statement about what you see, wonder and patterns.

Step 2 What additional sources of data can we use to deepen our understanding of the story behind the data?

Step 3 Now that we have the beginnings of a story, what are some potential implications for our instructional focus for next year?

Step 4 What are some draft goals we can work towards achieving?

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What do you see?

• Remember to stay low on the ladder of inference. • Refrain from interpretation or drawing conclusions

Example: • “In __________________, we have moved from

__% to __% in __ years.”

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What do you wonder about the data?

• What questions do you have based on what you have selected to focus on in the data?

Example: “I wonder what caused the increase in the percent of

students who scored proficient in 2010?”

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What Patterns or Trends do you see in the data?

• What are the implications of the data?

Example:

“I notice that the percentage of students scoring proficient and above has remained within 5 percentage points for the last 5 years.”

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Data Analysis Protocol

Step Actions

Step 1 Look at the data and make factual statement about what you see, wonder and patterns.

Step 2 Additional sources of data that deepen our understanding of the story behind the issues raised previously• How does this new information add to

what we know about the area of need identified in the earlier part of the session (Affinity Protocol)

• What are our challenges as a staff in tackling this area of need?

Step 3 Now that we have the beginnings of a story, what are some potential implications for our instructional focus for next year?

Step 4 What are some draft goals we can work towards achieving?

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Step Actions

Step 1 Look at the data and make factual statement about what you see, wonder and patterns.

Step 2 Additional sources of data that deepen our understanding of the story behind the issues raised previously• How does this new information add to what

we know about the area of need identified in the earlier part of the session (Affinity Protocol)

• What are our challenges as a staff in tackling this area of need?

Step 3 Now that we have the beginnings of a story, what are some potential implications for our instructional focus for next year?

Step 4 What are some draft goals we can work towards achieving?

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Step Actions

Step 1 Look at the data and make factual statement about what you see, wonder and patterns.

Step 2 What additional sources of data can we use to deepen our understanding of the story behind the data?

Step 3 Now that we have the beginnings of a story, what are some potential implications for our focus area(s)?

Step 4 What are some draft goals we can work towards achieving?

DRAFT

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Step Actions

Step 1 Look at the data and make factual statement about what you see, wonder and patterns.

Step 2 What additional sources of data can we use to deepen our understanding of the story behind the data?

Step 3 Now that we have the beginnings of a story, what are some potential implications for our instructional focus for next year?

Step 4 What are some draft goals we can work towards achieving?