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Join Tracy Unified School District's session to learn how they use data to make mission-critical decisions and improve student outcomes. Discover their challenges, solutions, and the impact of using data insights. Follow along with the reflection questions on Mentimeter using code 38.98.5.
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How to Put Your Data to Work Tracy Unified School District’s Data Journey
Presenters… Sheila Harrison, Ed.D. Associate Superintendent of Educational Services Tracy Unified School District, CA April W. Jackson Lead Data Services Consultant International Center for Leadership in Education
Session Outcomes How to use data to make mission critical decisions to improve student outcomes Turning Data into Action – A Tracy USD journey
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Group Activity • Form two groups and discuss the following: • What are your top two challenges when it comes to accessing and using data? • What do you need to solve those challenges? • Where does the data currently live? • How reliable is the data? • Is there an established way to analyze and correlate the data sets? • Who owns or manages the data and what are they doing with it? • Share and discuss
14,500 Students 20 Schools 9 Title 1 Schools 55% Free & Reduced Located in San Joaquin Valley, Northern CA • Tracy Unified School District
Our World – Current Student Performance 2018 State Assessment by Grade: Percent Meeting or Exceeding Standards by Grade ELA Math
Given the challenges, Tracy partnered with ICLE and implemented the following: • Tracy USD and ICLE 2014/2015 ELA Rigorous Curriculum Design Year 1 2015/2016 ELA Rigorous Curriculum Design Year 2, Math Rigorous Curriculum Design Year 1 2016/2017 Math Rigorous Curriculum Design Year 2 2017-2018 Math Rigorous Curriculum Design Year 3, Rigor Relevance Framework 2018-2019 ELA Rigorous Curriculum Design Year 3 of ICLE support, Math Rigorous Curriculum Design year 4, Rigor Relevance Framework
What are your district goals and objectives around using data? What challenges are you seeing?
Do you and your teams have access to right data and insights to make decisions?How do you know the data are clean and reliable?
HMH Data Insights Evidence of what’s working was missing and it was hard to measure the changes • Challenges: • Data Rich and information poor • Data was buried in the data warehouse with limited access • Correlating data from multiple sources • Easy access to data and insights to a the root cause • Not enough resources to continuously analyze the data
A data solution: • Introduced at Model Schools Conference • Data insights implementation initiated July 2018 • Started getting insights from Tracy data within 6 weeks
How Data Insights worked for Tracy Reporting and Visualizations Data Lake (cloud) RCD Unit Assessments SBAC, Math Diagnostic, District Letter Grades SIS and Attendance Data • Aggregate, Clean, • Organize, Analyze • Uncover new insight and patterns, trends
Outcomes from Data Insights Continued Data Insights for SY 2018-19 Started sharing the evidence and insights with building leaders and teachers Adjusted practice based on the insights from our data Continued to monitor progress and measure the change
Next Steps Implement Data Insights for SY 2019-20 As a result of the improvements in data quality and instructional practices, data insights will be incorporated in build level leadership meetings Access to data insights for build level administrators and teachers Expand data insights to other academic areas Continue to monitor progress and measure the change
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