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Got Data? Now What?
Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry
Explore three defining challenges that school teams face when gathering, interpreting, and utilizing school data. Complete with survey questions for efficient data collection, suggested group work structures, strategies, and tools—along with essential definitions and descriptions of data types—this compelling guide will help you confront data obstacles to turn struggling committees into powerful communities of learners.
Benefits
- Apply each chapter's content with the Exercise Your Learning sections.
- Learn more about each chapter's topic in the Extend Your Learning sections, which suggest additional websites and resources.
- Discover relevant, team-related anecdotes in each chapter's Data Story.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Developing Cultures of Collaborative Inquiry
Chapter 2: Introducing the Collaborative Learning Cycle
Chapter 3: Avoiding Reality Wars
Chapter 4: Knowing the Data Fundamentals
Chapter 5: Developing High-Performing Groups
Chapter 6: Moving From Dialogue to Discussion to Decision Making
Chapter 7: Evolving Decisions Into Action
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
- Choosing Which Data to Collect
- Four Dynamical Tensions: Assessing Your Group
- Four Dynamical Tensions: Assessing Your Group Membership
- Four Dynamical Tensions: Assessing Your Leadership
- Group Work Structures
- Information Altitudes Exercise
- Intervention Planning Template
- Reflecting on Your Experience
- Scaled Group Inventory
- Self-Assessment Inventory
- Spend-a-Buck
- Stages of Group Development
- Types of Survey Questions
Online-Only Material
- Determining Your Stage of Group Development
- Template for Advocacy: Inviting Others to Examine Your Thinking
- Template for Advocacy: Making Thinking and Reasoning Visible
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Chapter 1
- Belbin's Team Roles
- Group Development Tools Practitioners Can Use
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
- 5 Whys
- 5 Whys Root Cause Analysis Worksheet
- Pareto Chart
- Cause and Effect Diagram Training Video
- Creating Pareto Charts With Microsoft Excel
Chapter 4
- 10 Common Flaws in Math Tests
- Marcia Kastner: Testing the Test
- Perceptual Edge
- The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press
Chapter 5
- Group Development Tools Practitioners Can Use
- Workshop Exercises
Chapter 6
Chapter 7