A rough version of the data dialogue presentation done with principals in November last year.

1. Thirty Minute Data Dialogue Adams 14 Principal Professional Learning Community November 9, 2006

2. Can you imagine working at Microsoft and not focusing on software, or at General Motors and not focusing on building cars? That's what the schools were doing. We had forgotten that academic achievement is the core of our business. — Major General John Stanford

5. Spend time with colleagues piloting the adapted “Thirty Minute Data Dialogue” for classroom discussions

6. Outcomes: (1) Develop facilitation skills using a thirty minute protocol for evaluating classroom level data. (2) Pilot the proposed protocol for thirty minute data dialogue

7. What: Work through the proposed process of a “data dialogue” for the those of us short on time Why: Develop skills at facilitating important discussions about improving teaching practice How: Using actual teacher data while playing the role of principal and teacher.

9. Data-Driven Dialogue Colorado Consortium for Data-Driven Decisions (C2D3)

14. Taking Action What are some solutions we might explore? What are the data we will need along the way to examine the implementation of our solution?

15. Scale of analysis affects the relevance of certain data and the use of the “data dialogue”

17. Scaling Analysis Student Level Analysis Classroom Level Analysis School Level Analysis District Level Analysis

18. Scaling Analysis Student Level Analysis Classroom Level Analysis School Level Analysis District Level Analysis System Level

20. Objective : Change direction of the system by introducing reforms for the entire system District School

21. Scaling Analysis Student Level Analysis Classroom Level Analysis School Level Analysis District Level Analysis Individual

23. Objective : Improve teaching behavior and align student needs with curriculum design. Classroom/Student

25. Y Y Y Y DIBELS Y Y Y Y Common Assessment N N Y Y Perception (Survey) N N Y Y Demographics N N Y Y Grad Rate Y M Y Y Discipline Y M Y Y Attendance Y N Y Y IPT Y M Y Y CELA Y Y Y Y MAP Y Y Y Y CSAP Student Classroom School/Grade-Level District

26. Key to a good dialogue is facilitation…

27. Characteristics of Well Facilitated Data Dialogue Focused on improving student achievement Focused on factors that can be impacted by dialogue participants Uses exploratory language (Wellman and Lipton)

28. Characteristics of Well Facilitated Data Dialogue Open-ended questions are essential (Wellman and Lipton) Facilitator focuses on making clear that administration works to make teachers successful. Always leave with a task.

32. Objective : Improve teaching behavior and align student needs with curriculum design. Classroom/Student

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43. Accountability Versus Responsibility to count, compute (something done to schools) Accountability to be responsive; response-ability (an internal drive for continuous improvement) Responsibility