CORNERSTONES OF DATA FOR STUDENT SUCCESS By Maureen Slamer
“Let’s talk on your planning period, and bring your data.”
“How will we ensure every student is learning and making one year’s growth for one year’s of instruction?”
“What do we mean by proficient?”
“Progress monitoring? How are we supposed to do THAT?”
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In this age of accountability what supports do educators have in using student data? Data for Student Success Dynamic Inquiries and Professional Development Resources provide FREE web-based tools that allow educators access to state data quickly and easily. The professional development modules give schools a guide to support their journeys in using student achievement data to make decisions to impact instruction. The Data for Student Success web site provides access to data templates, handouts, focus questions, and video vignettes all at the click of a mouse.
Using the Data for Student Success (Data 4SS) Inquiries, access to the non-negotiable state level data is simple and quick. These inquiries provide MEAP, MME, MI-Access, Comprehensive Needs Assessment Reports and the Annual Education Report to support
data-driven decision making. Using these inquiries is just the first step. We need to move from “doing data” to using data to impact instruction across the school and district. Three of the Data 4SS Professional Development modules, Using State Data to Identify School Improvement Goals, Michigan Merit Exam (MME), and Using School Data to Clarify and Address the Problem, guide the data mining process to the student level. The protocols and processes included within the modules facilitate the analysis of state data and begin to narrow a school’s focus to reveal possible student learning issues. Whether you use Data 4SS Inquires or a local data warehouse funded through Regional Data Initiative, the Data 4SS Professional Development Resources are an essential tool! (figures 1 and 2)
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