September 19-20, 2012
Oak Lawn, Illinois (Chicago)

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Participants will examine their data and make leadership and instructional decisions within the framework of a proven and effective process. The six-step data-driven decision making process includes: Treasure Hunt, Analysis and Prioritization of Needs, SMART Goals, Identifying Strategies, Determining Results Indicators, and Planning for Monitoring and Evaluation. Each step will take participants deeper into new systems of thinking and applications of data. During the seminar participants will examine their own real data on real students so that the process is presented and understood in context. By the conclusion of day one, participants will have learned the process and made concrete improvement decisions about their district or school.

Day two will focus on how to implement data-driven decision making at the classroom practitioner level. Data teaming takes the struggle out of working with data by clearly and specifically identifying areas of student need; at the same time, it reduces the isolation of teachers by encouraging effective collaboration, empowering data team leaders and others who serve as the key support persons for data team leaders. Facilitators of the team meeting can be teachers, academic coaches, or administrators who create the agenda, monitor time, listen, and help move the team through the data process as it relates to their grade level and individual as well as group academic needs. Day two is key for success in applying the data process.

What to bring: Two years of state and/or district test data, other district student assessment data, classroom or grade-level assessment data, statistical data, and previous year’s goals.

Who is this seminar designed for?

This two-day seminar is designed for classroom teachers who will serve as data team leaders, principals, assistant principals, central office curriculum and instruction leaders, superintendents, assistant superintendents, and board members.

What Are the BENEFITS of the Decision Making for Results and Data Teams Seminar?

Participants will learn:

• The Decision Making for Results process
• Relevance of data and the impact on achievement, teaching, and leadership
• Importance of and strategies for collecting cause and effect data
• How the data process helps inform not only what students in the system are doing but help pave the way to monitor what the adults in the system are doing
• What is required of principals in order to make the data process effective in our district or school
• Ways to use the process to monitor their school improvement
• What constitutes a data team and how to find time for data team meetings during contract hours
• How to select data team leaders and define the key roles they play
• The critical steps in the collaborative data team process
• Study the structure a data team meeting must follow
• Practice facilitation skills

What are the LEARNING OBJECTIVES?

Participants will examine data to identify leadership and instructional decisions within the framework of a proven and effective process. The six-step decision making for results process includes:

• Treasure Hunt
• Analysis and Prioritization of Needs
• SMART Goals
• Identifying Strategies
• Determining Results Indicators
• Planning for Monitoring and Evaluation

The Research

The value of the data emerges only when analysis provides insights that direct decisions for students.

• Stephen White, Show me the proof! Tools and Strategies to Make Data Work for You. Beyond the Numbers: Making Data Work for Teachers & School Leaders, 2005.
• Douglas Reeves, The Leaders Guide to Standards: A Blueprint for Educational Equity and Excellence, 2002.

According to author Robert Marzano as cited in What Works in Schools: Translating Research Into Action (2003): “One of the defining characteristics of schools producing unprecedented gains in student achievement is that they rely on data to identify probably successful interventions”

“Mere collegiality will not cut it.  Discussions about curricular issues or popular strategies can feel good but go nowhere.  The right image to embrace is of a group of teachers who meet regularly to share, refine, and assess the impact of lessons and strategies continuously to help increasing numbers of students learn at higher levels.” -Mike Schmoker, “On Common Ground” The Power of Professional Learning Communities, 2005.

Agenda

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September 19, 2012

September 20, 2012

Tuition:

Note: This tuition does not include the cost of hotel accommodations.

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Team Package: Teams of 5 or more receive $20 off of the full individual tuition for each attendee.

Please Note:

Registrations will be confirmed via email.  Please wait until you receive confirmation to make travel arrangements as our events may reach capacity and be sold out at any point in time.