Data Stories

My new favorite song is  The Story of My Life by One Direction.  

This gave me inspiration to the idea of reflecting on data and making stories and hypothesis from the data to inform our instruction.  As I reflected on data, I made stories about our strengths as a school, areas to work on, and how we can ensure every student is reaching his or her full potential.  Remember we have a lot of formal and informal data that make up the story of each child.  We need to use all the information we have to best meet their needs.  I have provided some reflective questions you can use when reflecting on formal data.  We will spend some time at our progress monitoring meeting on Thursday making our own data stories for our own classrooms.    

Please make sure you get writing data imputed in the T drive by Friday.

Enjoy!

Data Stories

Learning Target:  I can reflect on my data to inform instruction and improve student learning.

Data tells a story.  It is our job to reflect on the data and write the story to support student learning.

Fountas and Pinnell

What students are at their monthly target?  Why do you think they are there?

What students are NOT at their monthly target?  Why do you think they are NOT meeting their target?  What can we do to support their growth?

What students are not growing?  Why do you think they are not growing?  What can we do to support their growth?

Writing

What trends do you see in your students writing? What are their strengths?  Why do you think these are strengths?  

What areas do you see for improvement?

What correlation do you see with your students reading and writing?

MAPS

Look at your students from the 0-20 percentile.  These are students in the red at risk.  Do you agree with this data?  Why or why not?  What are their biggest needs?  Look deeper at strands.   Look at the Descartes according to their RIT score to determine what are the next steps for instruction.

Look at your students from the 21-40 percentile.  These are kids to monitor who would be in the yellow zone.  

Do you agree with this data?  Why or why not?  What are their biggest needs?  Look deeper at strands.   Look at the Descartes according to their RIT score to determine what are the next steps for instruction.

Look at the growth report.  Which students are making expected growth?  Why do you think they are?

Which students are not making their growth target?  Why do you think they are not?  What can you do to appropriately challenge them and support their growth?   Look at the Descartes according to their RIT score to determine what are the next steps for instruction.  

A good goal would be to have 60% of your students meeting their growth target.

DIBELS

Look at your students in red.  These are the most at risk.  Is it consistent with what you observe ibn class and on other assessments?   What areas are their strengths and what areas could they use more support?  Look at DIBELS Online Activities for ideas to support your students.