Data+Team+Meetings

“[|Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making]”. This diagram comes from the Doing What Works website. It shows that 5 interrelated practices should be used together in order to use student data effectively.

1. Foundation: a district wide data system 2. & 3. Walls: Supports for data driven culture and Vision for data use 4. & 5. Inside: Cycle of instructional improvement and Student use of data

The [|Data Team Meeting Video] located within the RTI in Elem-Middle Math is an example of how these data teams work. The following questions and answers highlight key elements of a data team meeting help focus your attention.

1) Who is participating in the meeting? //All fifth grade teachers// 2) What types of data are they considering? Benchmarks, Math Exam, Knowledge of the students' learning 3) Name some of the recommendations they suggest for student growth //Set a goal for measurement, because this is an area where students seem to struggle the most. Tie is open-ended questions because students score low here too. Use manipulatives and differentiate instruction. Use graphic organizers and encourage students to use them as study guides// 4) Name some of the formative assessments they consider to monitor understanding //"Thumbs up, Thumbs down," "Agree/ Disagree cards," "whiteboards," quizzes, and games// 5) How are some of the specialists in the school involved in supporting the students that the team is discussing? //A specialist is pulling a student during math, and a reading coach is evaluating and assessing which group the student should be in, also there are intervention meetings with teachers and specialists.// 6) Use the grid below to make a bulleted list of conclusions in each area that you could draw about this school and these faculty members related to the big areas of the “Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making” chart. Then list examples that you have observed at your partner school.


 * || **Supports for Data Driven Culture**  ||  **Vision for Data Use**  ||  **Cycle of Instructional Improvement**  ||  **Student Use of Data**  ||  **District-wide Data System**  ||
 * **Examples from the Video** || Many types of assessments are used to evaluate students along with the knowledge of the students and their progress in the classroom. They have district measurements of where they need to be to compare their students to and set goals for the future. || They set a 6 month and a year goal to get them to the district standard. || Teachers offer suggestions for tying open-ended questions to measurement. Also using lots of differentiation. || Unclear from video || Certain goals are set by the district ||
 * **Examples from your partner school** || Many types of assessments are used to evaluate students: teachers create an assesment about a particular skill, which all students in the grade do. The teachers then evaluate the results and discuss root causes along with information about the students' performance in class. || They set a three week goal to improve a skill. || Less focus on this, teacher support each other by sharing their materials. || Students take "clicker tests" which show their results instantly. The teacher calls the names of the students who did well on the test, and tells students that if their name wasn't called they need to work on the skill more. || The teachers went to a two day professional development seminar on data teams. They met as a school a few times to go over the goals and functions of their data teams, and now report data on a computer based program for all to see. ||