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Using Data to Focus Instructional Improvement 1.7.2013 Edition

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Data. Does the word make you cringe? Does it evoke feelings of guilt? Are you unsure how to distill it and use it effectively?

Grab this book and learn how to empower yourself and your school community with information gleaned from your school's data. Experienced educators and authors offer simple instructions that can help focus school improvement efforts and result in increasing teacher expertise—a factor that positively affects the quality of life for students long after they have left the classroom. Accepting responsibility for such far-reaching influence requires educators to adopt instructional improvement as a standard by which a school needs to operate and as a means to collaborate and interact with one another. More than that, though, instructional improvement is an important component of successful schools.

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Data. Does the word make you cringe? Does it evoke feelings of guilt? Are you unsure how to distill it and use it effectively?

Grab this book and learn how to empower yourself and your school community with information gleaned from your school's data. Experienced educators and authors offer simple instructions that can help focus school improvement efforts and result in increasing teacher expertise a factor that positively affects the quality of life for students long after they have left the classroom. Accepting responsibility for such far-reaching influence requires educators to adopt instructional improvement as a standard by which a school needs to operate and as a means to collaborate and interact with one another. More than that, though, instructional improvement is an important component of successful schools.

Learn how to improve instruction by

* Collecting the right data the right way.

* Incorporating relevant data into everyone's daily life.

* Resisting the impulse to set brand-new goals every year.

* Never settling for "good enough."

* Anticipating changes big and small, local and federal.

* Collaborating and avoiding privatized practice.

* Involving all stakeholders in identifying problems, setting goals, and analyzing data.

* Agreeing on what constitutes high-quality instruction and feedback.

The challenge is to understand that data not intuition or anecdotal reports are tools to be used in getting better at teaching students. And teaching students effectively is what schools are all about. Following the guidance in this book, overcome uncertainty and concerns about data as you learn to collect and analyze both soft and hard data and use their secrets for instructional improvement in your school.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ASCD; 1.7.2013 edition (February 6, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 134 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1416614842
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1416614845
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.9 x 0.3 x 9.8 inches
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    I am a Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University (www.sdsu.edu) and a teacher-leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College. (www.hshsmc.org). I focus my work on improving students' learning and impacting professional learning communities. I write to clarify my own thinking and to share what I have learned from my experiences with teachers and educators around the world.

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    I am a professor of literacy in Educational Leadership at San Diego State University. I believe it's critical to be a deeply embedded in the life of a school, so I am also a teacher-leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego. I get to learn every day from amazing teachers, administrators, students, and families!

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    I have been an elementary, middle school, and high school teacher because I love working with students of all ages. In addition to being a Distinguished Professor of Education in the department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University (http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/DLapp/DLapp.html), I am also an instructional coach at Health Science Middle and High Schools in San Diego. My career has been focused primarily on working with struggling readers, writers, and speakers who live in economically deprived urban settings, their families, and their teachers. My many publications address issues related to the literacy development of students through the sharing of classroom- tested practices that support purposeful, rigorous instruction.

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Amanda Dockins
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I gave the book 4 stars, but it's more like 3.5.

The authors follow a new principal starting in an elementary school, and explain, in detail, the leadership steps he takes and the process he uses throughout the year to enable his PLCs to focus on improving instructional practice. Throughout the book, there are sets of, what the authors refer to as, quality assurance questions. These questions serve as a means of reflection for PLCs engaged in a school improvement process, thus making this a handy book to use.

The authors contend that the principles behind their Gradual Release of Responsibility Instructional Framework that teachers apply to their instruction with students can be applied to adults. The parts of this framework are the focus lesson, guided instruction, collaborative, and independent (I do it. We do it. You do it together. You do it alone.). They recognize that teachers, like students, need scaffolds and supports, but unlike in the classroom, the role of teacher and student in a faculty team can constantly shift.

The authors devote two chapters to the types of hard and soft data available to administrators. They point out that hard data are quantifiable and go beyond last year's assessment data. Nonacademic data like demographics should not be overlooked. Soft data are qualitative and are ubiquitous in a school: observations, practices for placement and retention, surveys, polls. This section on data, I found very helpful. It helps the reader to think creatively about the data points in their own school that might be overlooked.

The text is an excellent, easy-to-use guide for a principal and school leadership team to make PLCs more responsive to instructional improvement. The steps in the process make sense through the simplicity of the Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework. I didn't find any secrets to success in this book, but I did find a common sense, fair approach that any school with the will can make happen, and it's not a punitive process that uses student achievement to evaluate a teacher.

I recommend this book for a school with limited resources for training in developing instructional improvement plans. Between the quality assurance questions at the end of each chapter, or step in the process, and the many references listed, that offer further support and guidance, this book is a valuable tool.
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Robert Rock
5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful and well written
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2015
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A well written book that provides teachers and administrators with clear directions in using data to assess and modify instruction and school climate.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Data is Good!
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2013
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A wonderful way to get educators to truly understand why data is crucial to school improvement. This will help me to explain succinctly the need for establish strong data systems.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Book is in excellent condition and actually received this book before I received ...
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Book is in excellent condition and actually received this book before I received another book I had order two weeks earlier.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I revived this book on time, and it's almost brand new
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I revived this book on time, and it's brand new, using student prime is awesome, I highly recommend all students using Student prime.
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Another very useful book for educators.
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