A Coachs Guide to Using Data

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A Coachs Guide to Using Data
The Differentiated Accountability
Model Improving the Literacy or Mathematics
Program October 9. 2008
Office of Title I Academic Support

• Presented by
• Holly Mencer
• Reading Coach, MSD Warren Township
• Hawthorne Elementary

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Hawthorne Elementary

• Community school
• Approximately 430 students in grades K-5
• Highest poverty school in the district
• 68 free/reduced lunch
• 55 Caucasian, 34 African American, 11 other,
  16 special education

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A school of continuous improvement
2000-2001 44.8 2007-2008 71.4
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A journey
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Data, Data, and More Data!

• How do we keep track of what were finding out
  about our students?
• How do we use what weve learned to help
  students?
• How do we keep this information visible and real?

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How do we keep track of what were finding out
about our students?

• Using Data Binders and the mClass website

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Using DIBELS data with teachers

• Benchmark testing
• fall, winter, spring
• Progress Monitoring
• At risk-every 2 weeks
• Some risk-every 4 weeks
• Low risk-every 6 weeks

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Using the mClass Website

• Instant access to results
• Class Summary report
• Individual student results
• mClass direct
• mClass website
• Item-Level Advisor
• Small Group Advisor
• Home Connect

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Using Data Binders

• Planning for instruction
• Moving beyond the numbers
• Identifying error patterns
• Grouping students from their point of need
• Progress monitoring
• Coach support observe/model/coteach

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How do we use what weve learned to help students?

• Planning with teachers Data Meetings

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Using DIBELS data with grade level teams

• Monthly meetings with entire team
• Classroom teachers
• Special education teachers
• Reading Coach
• principal
• Weekly meetings with individual teachers
• schedule
• support
• Use data to
• change the interventions
• intensify the interventions
• develop new interventions

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How do we keep this information visible and real?

• Using a Data Wall

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Why a Data Wall?

• Visual Representation of
• student progress
• Every child is represented data has a face
• An interactive display of data
• A way to show change over time
• Non-threatening form of accountability

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Creating A Data Wall
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Things to Consider

• Space
• What kind of data
• Other information for disaggregating data
• Management of Data Wall

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Preparing Data

• Decide on a format for representing individual
  student data
• Possible information to include
• Student name
• Grade
• DIBELS scores
• Instructional recommendation
• Race/ethnicity
• Special Education
• Continuing students vs. new students
• ISTEP/Terra Nova

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Examples of Data Walls
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Our First Data Wall
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Data Wall
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Progress monitoring results indicate some
students are not responding to the intervention.
These results may indicate the need for an
intervention during core instruction (90-minute
block)
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Ways to display individual student data
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Individual Student Progress
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Effects of Data Walls on Instruction

• Accountability
• Attention to individual student progress
• Data-informed, teacher-driven instruction

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YOUR Journey begins today!
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Contact Information Holly Mencer Hawthorne
Elementary [phone] hmencer_at_warren.k12.in.us