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Data for Decision-Making

Explore the impact of technology implementation and professional development in Lexington Public Schools. Learn about the evaluation stages, indicators of success, and the district's technology plan. Discover how assessment drives goal refinement and community engagement.

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Data for Decision-Making

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  1. Data for Decision-Making Assessing the impact of technology implementation and professional development

  2. Shelley Chamberlain • Lexington Public Schools -- Coordinator of Technology, K-12 • chamberlain@sch.ci.lexington.ma.us • Joanne Benton • Lexington Public Schools -- Director of Elementary Education • benton@sch.ci.lexington.ma.us • Jeff Sun • Director, Sun Associates • jsun@sun-associates.com

  3. Get the Resources • www.sun-associates.com/resources/massupt • This presentation • Sample rubrics from Lexington’s evaluation projects • Technology evaluation workbook • Other program evaluation resources

  4. Lexington’s Technology Plan • Currently in 5th year of 5-Year Plan • Sun Associates has worked with the district to evaluate implementation since Year 2 • Primarily, we have evaluated technology professional development and its impact on K-8 teachers

  5. Plan Staging • Year 1-- Building Infrastructure • Year 2 -- Developing teacher basic skills • Year 3 -- Applying skills to curriculum • Year 4 -- Developing standards and competencies • Year 5 -- Refining and extending

  6. What Have We Evaluated? • Acquisition of teacher skills (Year 2) • Efficacy of professional development models (Years 2 - 5) • Teacher beliefs and attitudes related to technology, curriculum, and change • Gathering data on learnings, models, and other developments

  7. What has Lexington Learned? • Accountability • Planning -- e.g., what models do we want to promote and highlight? • Highlighting areas for continued/renewed attention -- e.g., infrastructure again!

  8. How? • Approach centers on the development of unique indicators for success • Really a subset of formative evaluation strategies developed to assess the value and impact of technology at a district level • Emphasis is on developing indicators that are unique to a district’s technology goals and objectives

  9. Why? • The point of evaluation -- whether broad or narrowly focused -- is to gather data that promotes reflection on your progress toward meeting your goals • Focused reflection drives clarity of goals and expectations... • which must be communicated to your entire community (staff, students, parents,...)

  10. Products • Goal refinement -- important for planning • Fine-tuning processes • Connecting with community expectations

  11. Connecting with the Bottom Line • What are our expectations for technology? • Are we achieving our expectations? • What is reasonable to expect? • Test scores? • Isolated effects of technology? • Impact on how teachers think about teaching and learning? • Creating the space to talk about these issues

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