School Advisory Council Training

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School Advisory Council Training

• Presented by the
• Office of Continuous Quality Improvement
• Strategic Planning
• School Board of Broward County, Florida

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DATA DRIVENDECISIONMAKING
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When it comes to student learning, no one test,
not even a good one, can possibly give us a full
picture of what students understand and can do in
relation to national or local standards and
curricula. Nancy Love Uses and Abuses of Data
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6A-1.09981 Implementation of Floridas System of
School Improvement and Accountability
Student achievement data from FCAT shall be
used to establish both proficiency levels and
annual progress for individual students,
schools, districts, and the state.
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Planning Cycle (PDSA)
Refine Revise Rewrite
School Improvement Plan
Act
Plan
Study
Do
Determine progress and Impact
Implemen- tation
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Objectives

• Participants will
• become familiar with vocabulary used in data
  collection and interpretation
• be able to identify trends and areas of
  strengths / weaknesses from data sources
• become familiar with available District
  resources

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What is Data?

• Basic information
• used in research.

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The Importance of Data

• Provides the focus to make good decisions
• Allows us to work effectively
• Improves school processes
• Measures impact of strategies implemented
• Remember
• All those numbers are children

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Data Analysis

• What gets measured gets done.

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Data Analysis

• Data reveals strengths and weaknesses
• Data reveals where we need to do better
• Data reveals where to make changes
• Data almost always point to action
• Data is the enemy of comfortable routines
• Data may result in retribution

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Data and School Improvement

• Effective schools frequently monitor progress
• Schools need to be results focused and data
  driven
• School Advisory Councils need accurate data on
  what is happening at the school to make decisions
• Schools must have a systematic way of collecting,
  organizing, analyzing, and using data
• All staff must be collectors and interpreters of
  data

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Show Me the Data!
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Try these

• DWH - Virtual Counselor
• DWH - Web Queries
• DWH - Web Reports (Benchmarks)
• DOE - School Accountability Report (Grades)
• DOE - FCAT Reading Math (All) (AYP)
• DOE - FCAT Writing
• DOE - Florida Indicators Report
• Research Eval - Program Evaluations
• Research Eval - Research Reports

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How SAC uses Data

• To assist in
• Implementing the School Improvement Plan
• Monitoring SIP Strategies
• Evaluating strategies/educational programs
• Providing accountability information
• Revising SIP strategies

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The key
The key to improving student achievement is
correctly identifying the needs and then making
decisions to meet those needs.
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Resources
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Districtwide Testing Handbook

• http//web/testingassessment/contents.htm
• Glossary
• Score Types
• Test Interpretation
• Rules Guidelines

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Office of Research Evaluation
Research and Evaluation Dr. Katherine
Blasik 754-321-2471 http//www.Broward.k12.fl.u
s/research_evaluation
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ETS - Data Warehouse

• Dr. Phyllis Chasser
• Data Warehouse
• [phone]
• http//www.broward.k12.fl.us/dwh
• Or web/dwh

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For Additional Information
Judy Zinn, Director
Gene Cain
Office of Continuous Quality Improvement /
Strategic Planning
George Jeandheur
Rise Yevelson
754-321-1891
D. Gail Thompson