A Data Coach's Guide to Improving Learning for All Students is an exceptional resource for anyone who wants to create and sustain significant change in schools. Designed for potential data coaches who will facilitate school-based data teams, this book includes a CD-ROM with templates, handouts, PowerPoint slides, resources, and sample goals and agendas.
The text is also ideal for school and district administrators who can use the process and tools to enhance results for students and promote equity in schools. Guiding educational leaders in unleashing the power of a collaborative approach, the authors offer detailed and technical guidance to help educators move schools away from unproductive data practices and toward examining data as a catalyst for systematic and continuous improvement in instruction and student learning. Educators and data team facilitators will learn to apply the Using Data Process model which has proven successful in:
Narrowing achievement gaps between students in all content areas and grade levels
Achieving strong, continuous gains in local and state assessments in mathematics, science, and reading
Demonstrating significant, steady gains in mathematics in elementary, middle, and high schools
Increasing collaboration and reflection practices among teachers
An excellent resource for educational improvement project staff, education service center staff, foundations concerned with education, department of education personnel, parent and community organizations, and others who are concerned about building capacity and systems for sustaining improvement in student learning.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Ruth Johnson
Introduction
1. The Power of Collaborative Inquiry
2. Getting Organized for Collaborative Inquiry
3. Building the Foundation
Introduction
Task 1 Launch the Data Team
Task 2 Reflect on Our School
Task 3 Raise Awareness of Cultural Diverstiy
Task 4 Commit to Shared Values, Standards, and Vision
4. Identifying a Student-Learning Problem
Introduction
Task 5 Build Data Literacy
Task 6 Drill Down into State CRT Data: Aggregate-Level Analysis
Task 7 Drill Down into State CRT Data: Disaggregate-Level Analysis
Task 8 Drill Down into State CRT Data: Strand-Level Analysis
Task 9 Drill Down into State CRT Data: Item-Level Analysis
Task 10 Examine Student Work
Task 11 Drill Down into common Assessments and Other Local Student-Learning Data Sources
Task 12 Identify a Student-Learning Problem and Goal
5. Verifying Causes
Introduction
Task 13 Conduct Cause-And-Effect Analysis
Task 14 Verify Causes through Research and Local Data
6. Generating Solutions
Introduction
Task 15 Build Your Logic Model
Task 16 Refine Outcomes and Strategies
7. Implementing, Monitoring, and Achieving Results
Introduction
Task 18 Take Action and Monitor Results
Task 19 Celebrate Success and Renew Collaborative Inquiry
8. Clark County, Nevada: Collaborative Inquiry in Action
CD-ROM Tool Kit Guide
References
Index
