Data Driven Instruction at the School Level

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Data Driven Instruction at the School Level

• Presented by
• Stephen Hockett Principal McNair Elementary
  School
• Herndon, VA 20171

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School Demographics2004-2005
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No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

• State developed standards and assessment tools
• Assessment tools and standards vary
  state-to-state
• Title I schools not making Adequate Yearly
  Progress (AYP)
• School Choice
• Supplemental Educational Services

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NCLB

• No Child Left Behind uses 29 categories to
  evaluate school performance
• Meeting the criterion of a category is referred
  to as having made Adequate Yearly Progress.

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Adequate Yearly Progress

• English Achievement Target 65 students
  passingMath Achievement Target 63 students
  passingParticipation Target 95 students
  taking test

N 50
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State Reported Results2004-2005
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Virginia Standards of Learning Results

• Fully Accredited by the state

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Monitoring Progress

• End of Year Assessments
• Identify trends and common areas of strengths and
  areas of improvement.
• Implications for ongoing evaluation
• Different groups of students take test each year
• Teachers Change
• Student Mobility
• Standards Change

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The Next Step

• FCPS Identified a need for quantitative ongoing
  longitudinal assessments
• Goals
• To provide real time data for driving informed
  decision making regarding individualized learning
  needs.
• Change classroom focus from teaching to learning
• Work with Princeton Review to develop a Benchmark
  Assessment Resource Tool (BART)

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Putting the Data to good use
Assess
Assess
Assess
Plan
Re-teach
Instruct
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Benchmark Assessment Resource Tool
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Benchmark Assessment Resource Tool
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Benchmark Assessment Resource Tool
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Use of data

• School-Wide
• Data Analysis Committee
• School Plan
• Curriculum Committees
• Vertical Articulation
• Curricular Strand Analysis
• Curriculum Mapping including essential
  understandings and standards
• Pacing guides

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Use of Data

• Grade Level
• Horizontal Articulation
• Instructional Planning
• -data bank of questions
• Focused individualized instruction
• Dialogue regarding instructional practices
• Designated time for discussion

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Professional Development

• Embedded
• Ongoing
• Focused
• Individualized
• School Improvement Plan