The Southeast DSAC Data Coach Network is an opportunity for school-based data coaches to participate in a regional professional learning community focused on building structures of collaborative inquiry. Network sessions will focus on sharing best practices and building upon skills and knowledge gained in the Data Coaching course from Research for Better Teaching.
The Network is intended for participants from Level 3 districts and "legacy" Level 3 districts who have taken the Data Coaching course from RBT. These districts were provided with a previous opportunity to register, and we have determined that there are openings for a few additional participants. The first meeting is scheduled for this Friday, December 2, from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm in Plymouth, MA.
The highlighted topic for this Friday's meeting will be "Using the Data-Driven Dialogue Process to Explore Student Growth Data." The RBT course highlights a process of drilling down to strand/item/student work, but did not touch on exploring Student Growth Data. This measure will be a piece of the new Educator Evaluation Framework from ESE (where applicable) so reflective conversations about this measure now will certainly benefit schools in the long term. We will also take some time to explore selected resources from the Data Coach materials that we did not spend time on during the course this summer and plan for future network meetings.
I apologize for the last-minute announcement of openings, but would be happy to hear from additional district or school-based data coaches (or those that serve in a data coach role) that would be interested in participating. You may register at this link: https://docs.google.com/a/dsacma.org/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGs4TDZWOVhDckprQ3JhQTRDQXZqSWc6MA#gid=0
If you or others in your district have taken the RBT Data Coaching course, but are not able to attend this first meeting, please don't hesitate to contact me to share your interest. (laura.tilton@dsacma.org)
Monday, November 28, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Examining MCAS Growth Data by Classroom
One message about the new educator evaluation system that comes through loud and clear is that student growth data will be an important measure considered (where available). This school year is a great opportunity to provide more information to staff about MCAS growth data in order to have folks become more comfortable with this measure and what it tells us.
As a reminder, the median student growth percentile for any group is the midpoint of student growth percentiles in the group (which must be >20 students), where half of the students have student growth percentiles higher than the median; half have lower. (It is not appropriate to use the average or “mean” when comparing percentiles.)
Last week, I visited an upper elementary school and presented an overview of the growth model to the staff. After sharing some of the basics, I asked the staff to share with me ways that they would like to look at growth data for their students. Teachers responded that they would like look at median growth for particular groups of students (subgroups, interventions, programs) but also that they wanted to see the median growth for their own classrooms over time. (And yes, I'll be working with the principal to help get this information to the teachers!)
I've been hearing people ask for a while now how they can more easily calculate the median SGP by group, especially by classroom. The Student Growth Roster (G-602) report in the older version of the EDW (2.6) will display a median SGP for a custom roster of students as long as at least 20 students are selected. In the next few weeks I'll be putting together some revised instructions on how to do this (students can be selected using a list, filters, or SASIDs) so stay tuned for more resources on this front!
As a reminder, the median student growth percentile for any group is the midpoint of student growth percentiles in the group (which must be >20 students), where half of the students have student growth percentiles higher than the median; half have lower. (It is not appropriate to use the average or “mean” when comparing percentiles.)
Last week, I visited an upper elementary school and presented an overview of the growth model to the staff. After sharing some of the basics, I asked the staff to share with me ways that they would like to look at growth data for their students. Teachers responded that they would like look at median growth for particular groups of students (subgroups, interventions, programs) but also that they wanted to see the median growth for their own classrooms over time. (And yes, I'll be working with the principal to help get this information to the teachers!)
I've been hearing people ask for a while now how they can more easily calculate the median SGP by group, especially by classroom. The Student Growth Roster (G-602) report in the older version of the EDW (2.6) will display a median SGP for a custom roster of students as long as at least 20 students are selected. In the next few weeks I'll be putting together some revised instructions on how to do this (students can be selected using a list, filters, or SASIDs) so stay tuned for more resources on this front!
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