Beginning the Journey with the Data Retreat Process

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Beginning the Journey with the Data Retreat
Process

• What Works in Schools Conference

Ponca City Public Schools
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Its All About Student Learning

• What do we expect all students to master?
• How will we know when they have mastered the
  standards?
• How will we respond to students who fail to
  learn?
• How will we respond to
• students who already know
• the standards?

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The District Data Journey
(Without data, its only your opinion!)

• 2006
• Site District PLCs
• District Assessments
• 2007
• Common Formative Assessments
• NWEA Pilot
• Data Summit Data Reviews
• Longitudinal Study of PASS Indicators
• 2008
• District Site Data Retreats
• Collaborative Data Reviews
• CFAs based on CRT/EOI Indicators

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Data ReviewsSuperintendent, Assistant
Superintendents, Curriculum Team, Peer
Administrators

• Fall Review (Oct./Nov.)
• Review Data Retreat
• Results
• Short-term Goals/Progress
• Strategies/Solutions
• District Support/Assistance

• Winter Review (Feb./March)
• CFAs Assessments
• CRT/EOI Readiness
• New Goals
• New Strategies /Solutions
• District Support/Assistance

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Collaborative Structure Support

• Yearly Data Retreats Reviews
• Best practices Marzano
• PASS Indicators
• Curriculum Maps
• Standards-based Report Cards PK-4th

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Collaborative Structure Support

• PLCs
• Curriculum Specialists
• Intervention Teams
• Student Interventions/RTi
• Data Walls/Rooms
• Continual alignment of
• Curriculum to PASS

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Site Implementation

• Training
• Data Retreat Process
• Fact Finding
• Hypothesizing
• Possible Solutions/Strategies
• Goal Setting
• PLC Process
• Short-term Goals, CFAs
• Collaboration on Instructional Strategies
• Tracking Data on Student Performance
• Celebrating

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Secondary Themes

• Vertical School
• Iron Sharpens Iron
• 1 1

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Secondary Journey

• Change
• Professional Development
• Culture
• Leadership

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• Leadership is the dynamic that pulls together all
  the various elements of a professional learning
  community and maintains and supports them.
• Solution Tree

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Professional Development
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West theData Process
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Barbara Cusick, Principal

• It was very valuable to the staff.  They were
  able to identify the areas of weakness and
  develop a plan to improve those specific areas. 
  The PLCs have focused more on the use of data,
  providing more focused work time.  It also showed
  the importance of developing and sharing SMART
  goals and sharing those goals with the entire
  staff.  Our entire staff now works to support all
  SMART goals.

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East Middle School 8th Grade Center

• Culture
• Leadership
• Data driven

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Ponca City High School
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Change
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Change
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Culture
Po-Hi is the place where everyone
learns.
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What Have We Learned?

• Data moves you from assumption to precision.
• Data driven decision making is cyclic.
• Data driven decision making should involve
  everyone.
• Data Summits, the Data Process, and Data Reviews
  are critical to school improvement.
• Do data with heart!

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Next Steps
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Early Success

• Teacher Site Ownership in Data
• Student Ownership in Achievement
• Deeper understanding of student
• strengths and weaknesses
• Ability to determine readiness
• for state assessments

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Contact Information

• Ponca City Public Schools
• Shelley Arrott matlos_at_pcps.us
• Principal, Union Elementary (580-767-8035)
• Susan Powell powels_at_pcps.us
• Secondary Curriculum Assessment Coordinator
  Central Administration (580-767-8000, Ext. 218)
• Jean Gaytan gaytaj_at_pcps.us
• Director of Curriculum
• Central Administration (580-767-800, Ext. 238)