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Data! Dialogue! Decisions!
The Data Difference

March 2014 | 120 pages | Corwin
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The analysis of data for instructional decision making is a hallmark of the 21st century. Teachers and administrators alike need a process that links instant, consistent, and relevant data to instant, consistent, and relevant results. Data! Dialogue! Decisions! describes a simple process--selecting a piece of data, dialoging about the data, and making SMART goal decisions about how to increase student performance--that includes the critical elements for powerful school improvement: meaningful teams, managed data, and measurable goals. Using a collegial process, administrators and teachers choose their own school of class achievement data to analyze and interpret as they target 'breakthrough' instructional decisions that yield rapid and quantifiable results. Results have been staggeringly successful.
 
Preface
 
Introduction
What's It All About?

 
What's the History of Results-Driven Change?

 
How to Use This Book

 
 
1. The Data! Dialogue! Decisions! Process
Schmoker's Model of Results-Driven Change

 
Introduction to the Data! Dialogue! Decisions! Process

 
 
2. Data!
A Sign of the Times

 
What Kinds of Data Exist?

 
What Kinds of Data Are Available?

 
How Are Data Collected?

 
How Are Data Used?

 
 
3. Dialogue!
Teaming to Ask and Answer the Questions

 
The Four Questions in Brief

 
The Four Questions in Full

 
Action Plan

 
Conclusion

 
The Coaches' Meeting Revisited

 
 
4. Decisions!
SMART Goals

 
Instructional Decisions

 
 
5. Troubleshooting
Data! Issues

 
Dialogue! Issues

 
Decision! Issues

 
General Issues

 
Professional Development Issues

 
 
Appendix A: Data! Dialogue! Decisions! General Format
 
Appendix B: State Standards in Reading Example
 
Appendix C: A Tale of Two City Schools: Making the Difference With Data
 
Appendix D: People Search
 
Bibliography

Brian Mitchell Pete

Brian M. Pete, co-founder of Robin Fogarty & Associates, comes from a family of educators-college professors, school superintendents, teachers and teachers of teachers. He has a rich background in professional development. Brian has worked with the adult learner in districts and educational agencies throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and the GCC in the Middle East.  He has an eye for the “teachable moment” and the words to describe what he sees as skillful teaching. He delivers dynamic, humor-filled sessions that energize the... More About Author

Catherine Sambo Duncan

Catherine Sambo is vice president of Kinney and Associates where she supervises site-based and field-based staff, provides a leadership role in all sales/marketing presentations, and designs and implements workshops relating to the relationships between curriculum, standards-based assessments, and student achievement. With more than a decade of educational consulting experience in over 300 schools Sambo offers her expertise in the collection and use of data for improving classroom instruction and student performance. She received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Loras College and a master’s degree in educational... More About Author

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