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Leading Data-Informed Change in Schools
Learn a streamlined 10-step process that will help you kickstart, implement, and sustain data-informed schoolwide transformation.
Benefits
- Learn what student data is and how it can be used to help schools.
- Understand different methods of data collection and how to use those methods to gather relevant data.
- Use gathered data and observed trends to determine what needs changing.
- Implement effective data-informed change in your school.
- Reflect and assess the results of the change, and make more changes as necessary.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Context of Student Data in Schools
Chapter 2: The Challenge of Using and Leading With Data
Chapter 3: Step 1—Establish a Data (or Project) Team
Chapter 4: Step 2—Understand the Data and the Data Collection Methods
Chapter 5: Step 3—Select and Collect Relevant Data
Chapter 6: Step 4—Display Relevant Data in an Appropriate Format
Chapter 7: Step 5—Analyze the Data and Identify Trends
Chapter 8: Step 6—Question the Reasons for Trends
Chapter 9: Step 7—Consider Options for Data-Informed Change and Choose Your Direction
Chapter 10: Step 8—Create an Action Plan
Chapter 11: Step 9—Make the Change
Chapter 12: Step 10—Evaluate the Impact
Epilogue
Appendix
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COLOR-CODED DATA SETS
Chapter 6
Chapter 10
- Figure 10.2: An example of a color-coded predicted grades spreadsheet
- Figure 10.3: An example of the way I predicted QCS test grades for grade 12 students
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Appendix
- Template 1: Exploring and Analyzing Different Types of Data
- Template 1: Completed Example
- Template 2: Exploratory Analysis
- Template 2: Completed Example
- Template 3: Bright Spots
- Template 3: Completed Example
- Template 4: Intervention or Areas of Concern
- Template 4: Completed Example
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