This set includes:

• Meaningful Instruction through the Data Teams Process – Leadership and Learning Live, Volume 3, DVD 1

  The Data Teams featured in this video understand that effective instruction leads to improved student learning.  The five-step Data Teams process is structured to focus both on teaching and learning. It is through this process that educators carefully analyze student performance and then deliberately select research-based instructional strategies that will have the strongest impact on student learning.

• (5) copies of Data Teams Success Stories, Volume 1

  Data Teams Success Stories allows readers to see the experiences that successful schools and districts have had implementing the Data teams process with the support of The Leadership and Learning Center.  The book features stories from schools all over the country and with many types of demographics represented.

  In this volume, school and district leaders write their own stories of the struggles they faced, the steps they took, and the successes they celebrated through their journeys with Data Teams.  The book also guides the reader to develop his or her own “success story” by developing plans to implement and sustain Data Teams in his or her own district.

• (5) copies of Data Teams: The Big Picture – Looking at Data Teams Through a Collaborative Lens

  The Data Teams process allows educators to take Professional Learning Communities to the next level.  Data Teams collaborate to examine student formative assessment data.  A Data Team monitors data, analyzes strengths and obstacles, establishes goals, selects instructional strategies, and determines result indicators for individual students. In short, Data Teams are collaborative, structured, scheduled meetings that focus on the effectiveness of teaching and learning.

  Data Teams: The Big Picture is an anthology of writings about the key components of Data Teams by experts who focus on answering the basic questions: What are Data Teams and how does implementation affect the current initiatives within my school or district?

  In clear, succinct essays these Data Team experts carefully cover the following topics: Response to Intervention, English Language Learners, Leadership Performance Coaching, Standards and Assessment, Instruction, Literacy, Professional Development, Leadership for Principals and Superintendents, 21st Century Learning, and Accountability.