how arkansas is effectively using data to guide instruction

How Arkansas is Effectively Using Data to Guide Instruction

Holly Glover, Director of Data Use & Privacy

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Arkansas Stakeholder Engagement Sessions

• ~759 stakeholders provided detailed feedback

• In-person workshop sessions were held at various locations across the state • Northwest• Wilbur D. Mills• Southwest• Arch Ford• Jonesboro

• Webinars & Survey for participants unable to attend

Stakeholders across the state were invited to provide feedback into the development of the Arkansas StudentGPS Dashboards

Northwest Co-op Farmington

Wilbur D. Mills Co-op, Beebe

Southwest Co-op, Beebe

Jonesboro School District

Arch Ford Co-op

What We Learned

• Centralized location to find everything needed so more time could be spent on instruction

• Customizable to fit needs

• User-friendly

• No Duplicate Entry

• Additional Features

Teachers Schools Districts

• Ability to view school information and individual classes to identify strengths & weaknesses

• Ability to sort based on grade levels, subpopulations, etc.

• Export feature

• Identify areas of weakness across the district

• Identify trends across data sets

• Set goals for district/schools

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Timeline – StudentGPS Dashboards

Spring 2013 (Pilot)• 4 Districts

2013-2014• 116 Districts

2014-2015• All Districts Eligible

242 districts

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How Do the Dashboards Work?

Student Demographic Information

Transcript

Grades & Credits

Student Growth

PercentileAttendance

Discipline

State & Local Assessments

Updated Nightly

SMS

Course Codes

Job Codes

Educator

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Student Information

• Parent/Guardian Information

• Emergency Contacts

• Transportation Information

• Medical Alerts

• Academic Informationo Grade Levelo Expected Graduation Yearo Curriculum Plano GPA

• Program Statuso 504o Gifted/Talentedo Bilingual Program

• Other Student Informationo TAGGo Homelesso Migranto Retained

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Academic Dashboard

• Overview

• Attendance & Discipline

• State Assessments

• Local Assessments

• Grades & Credits

• Advanced Academics

• College & Career Readiness

• Interventions

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Academic Dashboard

• Overview







• Interventions

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Academic Dashboard

• Overview







• Interventions

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Academic Dashboard

• Overview







• Interventions

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Academic Dashboard

• Overview







• Interventions

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Academic Dashboard

• Overview







• Interventions

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Academic Dashboard

• Overview







• Interventions

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Academic Dashboard

• Overview







• Interventions

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Classroom Teacher Page

The dashboards are

FERPA compliant

ensuring teachers only

have access to view

students assigned to

him/her. From the

homepage, teachers have

the ability to view all of

the students and all of

the relevant data in one

view.

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School/District Administrator

School Administrators

have the ability to view

information for the

entire school including:

• School Information

• Academic

Dashboard

• Set Goals

• View Teacher’s

Pages

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Dynamic ListCreate A Dynamic List

Dynamic List will populate a

list of students based on the

criteria selected.

The teacher can be alerted

via email when a student is

added or drops off the list.

Examples

• Attendance

• Interventions

• Grades

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Local Assessment Templates

Educators can enter data

for the following

assessments directly into

the dashboards:

• DIBELS 6th

• DIBELS Next

• DSA

• DRA

• STAR

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Classroom DIBELS Overview

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Usage ReportsUsage reports include

how the dashboards are

being used by the user:

• Logins

• Consistency

• Session Time

• Page Actions

• Page Views:

Printed or Exported

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• Statewide Training – Educational Service Cooperatives

• Website with tutorials & resources

• Webinars

• Showcase successful districts/schools

• Listserve for Research & Technology

• Commissioner Memos

• Continuous feedback process

• Advisory Council

Implementation

242 Districts

95% Adoption Statewide

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• Educator Effectiveness - Provide documentation of data use tied back to Arkansas Teacher Excellence Support System (TESS)

• Instructional Improvemento Analyzing data

o Setting goals

o Adjusting instruction

• Partnerships with local universities – Teacher Prep Programs

• Training - Using Data to Guide Instruction

Connecting the Pieces

StudentGPS Demo Site

District AdministratorUsername: Districtadmin

School AdministratorsUsername: HSAdmin

TeacherUsername: HSTeacher

Password: adetraining

http://adeedfidemo.arkansas.gov

http://adeedfidemo.arkansas.gov/

Additional InformationStudentGPS Website

Contact Information

Holly [email protected]

501-683-4230

https://adedata.arkansas.gov/sgps/Default.aspx

mailto:[email protected]

https://adedata.arkansas.gov/sgps/Default.aspx

Questions/Comments