Leading a Data Meeting

1. Leading a Data Meeting Rhonda Seidenwurm, Ph.D. Linda M. Paul, Ed.D. New Mexico School Leadership Institute

2. Agenda • Data Informed Leadership • Staff Data Meetings • Governing Council Data Meetings • EPSS Goals and Action Items

3. Data Informed Leadership

4. Why do you dowhat you do?

5. First Things First http://taylormali.com/index.cfm?webid=9

6. First Things First Assess Your Competence Assess Staff Competence Assess Audience Competence

7. Data Informed Leadership • Leader Knowledge of Academic Data • Communication of Academic Data • Teachers • Parents and Community • Now What? • Did it Work?

8. Data Meetings • Builds Understanding • Provokes Reflection • Drives Action

9. Data Information

10. Not a Growth Model 4th Grade Math

12. Staff Data Meetings

13. Go Visual “Robert Marzano has found such graphic display of data to be the second most powerful factor in boosting achievement, 4and it is especially effective when teachers and administrators see the names of individual students and how each of them is doing.” http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k_v90/k0809mal.htm#4

17. Used with permission from Learning Innovations at WestEd for New Mexico Public Department of Education #1 Data Dialogue • Identify predictions, observations and questions to guide data use • Deepen ability to use data in a variety of ways

18. Used with permission from Learning Innovations at WestEd for New Mexico Public Department of Education Data-Driven Dialogue Adapted from Wellman, B., & Lipton, L., 2004. Data-Driven Dialogue: A Facilitator’s Guide to Collaborative Inquiry. Sherman, CT: MiraVia, LLC. Used with permission.

19. Judgment statements Because statements Used with permission from Learning Innovations at WestEd for New Mexico Public Department of Education

20. Used with permission from Learning Innovations at WestEd for New Mexico Public Department of Education Schedule

21. Used with permission from Learning Innovations at WestEd for New Mexico Public Department of Education Observations No • Our 9th grade algebra program isn’t very good. • We have too much instruction at the “Remember” level • Our 6th graders have trouble on the state tests every year

22. Used with permission from Learning Innovations at WestEd for New Mexico Public Department of Education Observations Yes • Our 9th graders’ scores in algebra are 15% below other benchmark schools • 65% of observations indicated that the cognitive level of questions and activities were either at the “Remember” or “Understand” level • The cohort of students in our school’s 6th grade last year were 4 – 15 points below other cohorts each year tested

23. #2 Data Gallery Walk V. Bernhardt, Ph.D.

24. #2 Data Gallery Walk • Place a sheet of chart pad paper next to each set of data charts, with the questions, What do these data tell us about our strengths? and What do these data tell us about what needs to be improved? • At one end of the Gallery Walk, post another sheet with the questions, What are the implications for school improvement? and What objectives do we need to set and how will we measure them? V. Bernhardt, Ph.D.

25. #3 Student Work • Grade Level/Department • Go Visual • Open the Conversation

27. Governing Council Data Meetings

29. FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS

31. Confront the Brutal Truth • Multiple Data Sets • Next Steps

32. EPSS Goals and Action Items

33. SMART Goals • Specific • Measurable • Attainable • Results-Oriented • Time-Bound

35. Thoughts,Ideas,Comments?

36. www.nmsli.org