Data 4 Student Success the Michigan Data project

Data 4 Student Success

I am in Lansing today and tomorrow for a Data 4SS Conference. This conference has been put on by Calhoun ISD and money from the MDE. They have put on a great program so far.

I attended the work shop called “Beyond Achievement Data” This session started out talking about a model called “The Data Wheel” this model looks like 3 gears that are interconnected. The first set of gear driving the system is called the Process Data, the next gear being driven is the Perception Data and the third is the output gear called the Results Data. Lets first look at what is entailed in the Process Data - This is defined in the handout by who, what, when, and where types of information. Example of this are a lesson plan an assessment test formative or summative. Next their is the Perception Data: This is data that is based on what people believe is true. Also this is called soft data as no one can put a finger on any data that drives there opinion. This data is often over look and under utilized in survey on Student and parent survey instruction practices. The third component of this model is the Results Data: This is what is produced by the students after instruction has occurred. This takes the form of MEAP, Merit, SAT/ACT, and Drop-out rate. Some of the other actives that we preformed were creating a mental model of student learning for your teaching practic and for your district and any other organizations that effect student learning. There was also a Jigsaw activity were three different groups in a table of 6 to 9 people read 1/3 of a paper then each group reports back on the big ideas from what they learned in there section of the paper. The article was on different form of data and how when you look at only one factor you may not see the whole picture and then as you add more layers of data on top of this you way find you have a complete answer to a question. As you get past for levels of data it gets harder to analyze but you will have a more complete picture of the data. This was a good workshop session and allowed me to think at a deeper level how we can use student data to drive and enhance student learning.
The second session of the day was on Professional Learning Community (PLC) and how they play a very important roll in creating a safe environment so that so that teachers can work collaboratively on analyzing student data. When creating a PLC organization you need to set norms that the group will operate by another name for norms might be ground rules or group rules there are many more names that this can be called. Many PLC groups have norms but fewer know what to-do if someone in the group doesn’t follow the norms. Some suggestion would be to take a break in the meeting and take the person off to the side and tell them of there error if they would continue to not follow the rules they may need to be ask to not join in the group discussion. There is a four part process when creating norms. Create them practice them in a collaborative group some times if there is problems in the group with the norms or lack of a norm the group may need to reform these norms.

This project is coordinated through Michigan's educational service agencies (ISDs/RESAs/RESDs) for use by these agencies and the local public schools they serve. This Title IID grant provided funding to enable the creation of a Professional Development Model designed to foster school improvement planning around quality data and inquiry relating to student work. This grant has also provided funding to build a Dynamic Inquiry tool that helps educators analyze state level data to use in the school improvement planning process.

I would like to take this time to publicly thank the Leadership team of the Data for Student Success for all there hard work in setting up this training days.

Data4SS Leadership Team:
Steve Brodeur, Project Integrator - Data for Student Success
Mary Gehrig, Assistant Superintendent - Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
Andrew Henry, Executive Director - Data for Student Success
Mike Oswalt, Assistant Superintendent - Regional Technology Services
Rebecca Rocho, Assistant Superintendent - General Services and Legislation
Maureen Slamer, Director of Professional Development - Data for Student Success

Dr. Mike Schmoker and Michigan Student Data tools

Dr. Mike Schmoker key note speacker:

I am at a conference in Lansing on Data 4 Student Success or the short version is D4SS. This is a project that the state of michigan has taken on with ISD and RESA all over the state. I am looking forward to hereing what Dr. Mike Schmoker has to say about student learning. I have read his book Results Now and enjoyed it. I have also listen to his podcast of the aduio Journals. I will post some of the new ideas that I come away with over the next two days. The D4SS take the MI Meap data and the MME School data and place it in a tool that can be used to find weakness and strenghts in your schools curriculm. This is not a new idea but it is a common tool that can be used by all schools in the state. Along this lines there is another tool that will be avalible soon and that is a Database Warehouse of local student achievment data in a tool that will allow schools to get there data into a common reporting tool. We have many diffrent systems in schools today. Student managment system, Reading programs, Math programs, and many other forms. But we must now log into each one and pull the need reports. Further more each report is just a little diffrent. The tough part will come in that we have many diffrent databases to pull data from and place it into the warehouse. We will need to look at SIF systems so that we can migrate the data back and forth as seemless as possible. So if you want to learn more about this project comeback and read more as it unfolds.

Video on "Education is not the filling of a vessel, but the kindling of a flame." - Socrates

Here is a Youtube video on what is learning about and a quote from Socrates

"Education is not the filling of a vessel, but the kindling of a flame." - Socrates

Credit must go to Delerium for the soundtrack - used without their permission. I made this using iMovie as part of a digital literacy program for teachers at the Foothill College Krauss Center for Innovation in Los Altos, CA. All the pictures I took on campus.

Bloom's Taxonomy video Part #3

A description of assessment techniques appropriate for domain levels according to Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom's Taxonomy video Part #2

A level by level treatment of the cognitive domains by Bloom and the verbs used to design your assessment techniques and write your objectives.

Bloom's Taxonomy video Part #1

Video overview of assessment and an introduction to Bloom's Taxonomy and it's application to learning.

Google documents a tool for student colabration and student learning

Google documents: Here is a video showing how you can use google documents to create true colabration amoungst learner. Here how some other teachers have used it to improve learning.

 

Here are an example of how we need to get student success out of the sports show cases and out of the note books or on the teachers desk and on the shelf and instead put them on to the wall of the school. This way being smart is looked up to and student will want todo good work and gain recognization by staff and other students.

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