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What can be done to support students and improve achievement?

Are the teaching strategies that I’m using having a positive impact on student results?

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How do students perform compared to the expectation?

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Formative Assessment Strategies: Thinking Beyond the Paper Pencil Test

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Letting Data Lead

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Data Fluency: Exploring and Describing Data

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Leading Impact Teams

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Creative Confidence Podcast

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Teachers are designers.

Design thinking as a work culture.

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Measure progress - capacity building through growing participation rates

Qualitative can give strong data points

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Mobilizing people - the power of storytelling, communications, collective aspiration, talk about the things we have done

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Lead through influence - The vast majority of us are not in positions of authority and power. How do I lead from where I am?

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Start by redefining common purpose, rethinking processes,

Why do we exist as a group?

What are we doing in service of others?

What is our collective purpose?

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Shifting culture through movements not mandates for sustained impact

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Where to start:

Identify targets for standards and content

Create tasks clearly aligned

Design lessons specific to identified targets

Assess students

Review the analysis and lesson plans

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“Using data effectively relies on a culture of trust and support.”

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“It becomes necessary to know the stages of development associated with the standard at each grade level, throughout the year. The standard can be broken into pieces that are taught throughout the year, each piece building on the next and compiled along the way until all pieces are taught, practiced, and assessed both individually and collectively.

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What do we want students to know, and how will they use that information?

What will we do to assess students, and how will we know that they are proficient?

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“It’s not about the data. It’s about what we do with the data.”

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Questions to consider:

How will we respond?

When do we respond?

When do we move on?

What actions will we take in an effort to respond to data?

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Data = Action

What do we do? How do we respond after we have assessed students? What type of data do we collect? How do we know what to do after we collect it?

Forethought and preplanning makes data actionable.

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Examine evidence
- What success criteria were the students able to achieve? What criteria do they still need to demonstrate to achieve the next level of proficiency?
- Analyse evidence to determine what skills and abilities supported/prohibited learning and attaining proficiency.

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How to make the work happen:

Align curriculum maps and outcomes to CCSS

Develop common formative assessment for transferable skills aligned to CCSS

Develop common summative assessment aligned to CCSS

Select and implement literacy strategies to use for teaching

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Assessment Criteria:

Specific to what is being learned

Agreed upon in advance

Visible

Authentic

Focuses conversation

Foundation of analysis

Springboard to action

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Coherence - “A coherent curriculum builds ideas across time and disciplines by connecting ideas between relevant topics and by aligning instruction grounded in the formative assessment process.

Well organized

Purposefully designed

Free of academic gaps and needless repetitions

Aligned across content and grade levels

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Quality curriculum = How + What

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Why feedback?

Clarifies good performance (goals, criteria, standards)

Facilitates self-assessment

Provides high-quality information

Encourages dialogue

Encourages motivation and self-esteem

Opportunities to close gap between current and desired performance

Helps shape teaching

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Classroom goals:

Understand learning intention

Understand success criteria

Give and receive evidence-based feedback

Effective peer and self-evaluation

Reflective goal setting

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Efficacy Research:

Greatest influence on student learning

Creates and sustains culture of learning

Focuses on system strength

Creates a healthy climate

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Self-efficacy is built through: mastery moments, models of success, feedback, safety

^inherent in formative assessment process

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“An Impact Team is a network so educators who partner with students and each other in learning. It is a team that is committed to understanding their impact on learning. The stronger the beliefs they hold about their collective capabilities, the more they achieve. Impact Teams empower learners to own and take charge of their learning. Ultimately, they build a culture of efficacy.”

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“Creating conditions where innovation and creativity thrive”

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“Collaborative inquiry: A process in which teacher teams partner together to understand their impact on student learning.”

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Using Formative Data to Inform Instruction

Analysis of student work - Homework, notes, thought catchers

Analysis of student discussion - Listen to discussions in order to remediate as a whole class or small group

Admit/Exit Tickets/Summaries - Review responses, gaining insight on which students have fully learned the concept, and those that are still struggling

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Evaluating Formative Assessment

Feedback

Timing

Student involvement

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Annotations

Class notes

Thought catchers

Exit slips

Self-assessment and procedural checklists

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Where am I going?
Where am I now?
Where do I need to go next?

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Formative Checklist:

Requires students to engage with feedback

Clear, specific learning goal

Non-evaluative

Requires instructional adjustments of the teacher

Feedback + timing + student involvement

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Assessment = Driver of lesson plans, seeking information

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(Standards and Design)

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Empathy - Data ultimately comes from people and helps you do something for people. Think about how you interpret the questions and how you would react to the things that you are going to predict. Remember your own humanity, which will give you an insightful and rich analysis.

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Assess the generalizability

Time - Will you get the same results if you do the exact same thing again?

People - Will you get the same results if you do the same thing with different people?

Event - Will you get the same results if you try a different but related thing?

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“Use data whenever possible. Use your brain always.”

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2 lists - What’s Working and What’s Not Working - Can you prove it?

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"Data keeps you honest and connected to reality, even as you are creative and make bold plans."