230 likes | 302 Views
Strategies for Data Use Everyone Achieves. No Exceptions. No Excuses. Gillian Williams President The Rensselaerville Institute. Three Key Strategies. Diagnosis Yourself as Sparkplug Your Program Helping Students Aligning Resources.
E N D
Strategies for Data UseEveryone Achieves. No Exceptions. No Excuses. Gillian Williams President The Rensselaerville Institute
Three Key Strategies • Diagnosis • Yourself as Sparkplug • Your Program • Helping Students • Aligning Resources
What is the thing you most control or can influence in your young peoples’ success?
How to Diagnose Yourself • What sparks change? • What keeps change going in the right direction? ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO THE PERSON!
Some Sparkplug Characteristics • Energy • Bias to Act • Results Orientation
Energy • Stamina and staying power • Enthusiasm and optimism • Passion for achievement • Motivate others with forward momentum
Bias To Act • Focus on solutions • Sense of urgency • Opportunity-driven • Impatient
Results Orientation • Outcome matters more than process • Need for achievement • Clear and compelling targets for success • Ability to get and use data
ENERGY – BIAS TO ACT – RESULTS • Think about what each characteristic “looks like” in you • Be brutally honest • This is not what you want to be – it’s who you are right now
Data Use: What Gets In the Way? • Complexity. Too much information is as bad as too little. • Timing. Year-end performance data is not available until after the following school year begins. • Information Export. Collecting data can feel more like a requirement for someone else than a tool for you. • Validation. We look for information that shows progress vs problems – with information as a way to improve. • Disconnect. There’s often a gap between quantities and qualities.
How To Diagnose Your Program • Be quick • Be personal • Be honest • Be data-informed
What’s Wrong? • ACHIEVEMENT! • What’s trending? • Where are the gaps – gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status? • What’s “beneath” the trends?
What’s Blocking Success? • External versus Internal • Structural versus (Inter)Personal
1. What Can You Target? • Academic Achievement • Behavior Change • Quantifiable Results 2. How can data help you do this? 3. What data do you need?
ACADEMIC GOAL SETTING - Reading Student: Sage Jefferson Teacher: Lockwood Period: 4 2010 Score: 72%2011 Score: 68% 70% = passing October – Benchmark #1: 54%December – Benchmark #2: 62%February – Benchmark #3: 2012 Target : 410 (75%) Current standards to work on: Main idea – especially the difference between main idea and theme and how to find each of them in fiction. Inferences – remember that this is about what can be figured out from the text – not just what is already written. What will you change now to hit your target? When I am reading I will ask myself what the main idea is as I go along in the reading. When I read at home I will try to read fiction books and look for both the main idea and the theme and write them down in my reader’s journal. I will try to think about what I read more instead of just going back and looking for the sentence that has the right answer. What support would you like? I want to move my seat away from Jeremiah during reading class because we always talk about other stuff. I need a new reading journal because my old one got lost. I want to be in the after school reading club. How can you involve your family and friends in meeting your target? After I read at night I am going to ask my auntie to look at my reading journal. I am going to see if my friends want to go to the library sometimes on the weekends. _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ Student Signature Staff Signature Parent Signature
What Can You Do To Help? When you look at this student’s data – what things can you and your program or service do that would further support this student’s targets?
Better Alignment • Start with TARGETS • Get Rid of What Pulls You Back • Re-Position What You Have to Keep • Take Better Aim • Seek Out What’s Missing
Be the cafeteria lady Everyone Achieves. No Exceptions. No Excuses.