realizing the power of data in accelerating the
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Drs. Kendra Johnson, Kandice Taylor, Lisa WilliamsApril 26, 2012
Santa Anita B, Lobby LevelDream Deferred Conference
Realizing the Power of Data in Accelerating the
Performance of Underserved Students
Presentation Outcomes:
• Examine the present state of teaching and learning.
• Differentiate between traditional school improvement processes and school transformation processes.
• Examine the array of real time data that can be analyzed to monitor the transformation process.
• Provide examples of practical applications
of transformational practices.
Giving the Presentation Participants’ Voice
• Principal – Red (LEVERAGE POINT)
• School-based staff (teachers, assistant principal,
resource staff, department chairs, and school
counselors) – Yellow (CRITICAL SUPPORT POINT )
• District superintendent, assistant superintendents,
executive directors –Green (SUPPORT POINT)
• District level staff (all curriculum and instruction, business, human resources, and professional development) – Pink (SUPPORT POINT)
What is the Practitioner’s Perspective?
• What is the reality or the face of the data? What does it look like in your building?
Teaching in a classroom near you!
• Let’s characterize this instruction
Why our experiences say we should change?
TURN AND CHAT
Equity
• African American Male National Graduation Rate: 48%
• African American Male College Graduation Rate: 28%
• African American Female National Graduation Rate: 59%
• African American Female College Graduation Rate: 32%
Sources: http://youngmenofcolor.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/downloads/EEYMC-ResearchReport.pdf; National Assessment of
Educational Progress Report, 2009
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_48.htm
Urgency
• Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the knowledge and
skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries around the world, ranked the United States 14th out of 34 OECD
countries for reading skills, 17th for science and a below-average 25th for mathematics.
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Common Core Standards: Ripe with opportunity
• Same standards for all
• Research emphasis starting in
kindergarten
• Emphasis in mathematics on
mastery and depth and in earlier
grades
• Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics
(STEM) emphasis
• Text complexity increases
• Writing begins earlier, in all
contents, and persists into higher
grades
In your experience, what’s the difference, if any?
Will it take school improvement or
school transformation?
TURN AND TALK
How will we ready ourselves for the Common Core Standards?
School Improvement v. School Transformation
• Small gains in one
specific area (typically
takes 1-2 years)
• No change at every level
of the organization
• The organization is
essential the same
• Significant changes in
all areas (typically
takes 3-5 years)
• Change at every level
of the organization
• The organization is
transformed into a
new entity
School
Improvement
School
Transformation
School transformation is defined as…
Albert Einstein said, “Problems cannot be solved by
the same level of thinking that created them.”
a holistic systems change that involves breakthroughs in the teaching
and learning dynamic, collaboration protocols, leadership, and heart
of all involved in the change. Staff members’ beliefs are challenged
and reconceived based on this notion that ALL students can and will
be academically and behaviorally successful.
CENTRALIZED TRANSFORMATIONAL MODEL FOR SCHOOL ACCELERATION
Accountability
Mechanisms
Completion of a
Root Cause
Analysis
School
program gap
analysis
Analysis of
school-wide
classroom
walk-through
data
Analysis of
curriculum
implementation
data
Implementation
of a year-long
strategic
professional
development
plan using
content experts
Analysis of the
outcomes from
surveys, journal
entries, and
observations
Standard Tools
Individualized
School Support
In-person
Conversations
On-line
Collaborative
Learning
Communities
Accountability
Measures
District-level RTTT Achievement Improvement Team Supports Identified Schools
with a Comprehensive Rigorous School Improvement Process
Curriculum and Instruction Implementation Checks
Individualized School Improvement Support Plans:
Professional Development for Teachers and Principals
Technical Assistance for Teachers and Principals
Creation of Networks to Support Capacity Building
Coaching, Support, Professional
Development, Technical Assistance
for School-based Teams
Schools Engage in Robust Comprehensive Needs Assessment and Planning
TRANSFORMATION, DATA, and
A “Real” Middle School transformation in progress…
GRMS Enrollment Data
Maryland State Assessment TREND DataTotal
Student
Population
African
American
Student
Population
Total
Math
Scores
African
American
Math
Scores
Total
Reading
Scores
African
American
Reading
Scores
2005 843 539 34.9 25.4 64.3 56.0
2006 795 532 33.9 25.9 56.3 51.3
2007 759 516 30.6 25.3 54.5 48.8
2008 699 482 37.9 30.6 63.1 58.3
2009 661 449 45.6 37.9 71.7 66.3
2010 637 440 48.2 41.7 70.0 68.8
2011 648 438 49.6 40.3 70.7 65.9
Additional GRMS Data
• Mobility Rate: 18.9%
• Student Attendance: 93.9% (State Standard was 93.7%)
• All teachers were certified
• Teacher Attendance: Combined total of 451 days of absence
• Discipline: 1509 discipline referrals, 130 students suspended once or more, 4327 hours of total instructional time lost due to suspensions
Where do you start? How do I begin the work?
Student Achievement
Quality InstructionSafe and Orderly
Environment
Perceptions
District Demands
State Demands Staff Retention
Common Core
ETC, ETC, ETC
PRESSURE
FACTORS
COMPREHENSIVE NEEDS ASSESSMENT
•Data associated with various components of the
school
•Use of the data to reflect on the current situation
and to focus on the issues not perceived issues
•Need a group of stakeholders with a range of
knowledge, skills, and expertise
•Analyze and extract from the data
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
•Define the process
•Use of the data to reflect on the current situation
•Utilization of staff members vital to the movement
•Structure which lends to efficiency
•Eliminate factors outside of the school’s control
•Drill down through the “why” process
TEACHER LOW EXPECTATIONS
LOW PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS
STUDENT NEEDS NOT BEING MET
ROOT CAUSE-TEACHERS ARE NOT HELD ACCOUNTABLE
FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF
TOOLS
EXAMPLE OF DRILL DOWNSTUDENT ACHIEVEMENT-INSTRUCTION
LACK OF UNDERSTANDING
(ADULTS) OF WHAT TO DO TO MAKE STUDENTS MEET WITH SUCCESS
TEACHERS DO NOT TAKE PD SERIOUSLY OR IMPLEMENT STRATEGIES
STRATEGIC THINKING AND NARROWING OF THE FOCUS
Achievement,
Accountability, and Student
Responsive Instruction
Quality Instruction and School Transformation
WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SAY ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP AND QUALITY INSTRUCTION?
What about this video clip represents quality instruction?
Poor and minority children don’t underachieve in school just because they often enter behind;
but, also because the schools that are supposed to serve them actually shortchange them in the one resource they most need to reach their potential – high-quality teachers
Peske and Haycock, 2006
Student Responsive Praxis: The road to improved outcomes
Instructional
Practices Rooted
In Students
Learning Needs
Gender
Race
Disability
Class
Values
Beliefs
Language
Mores
Access to quality instruction has a cumulative effect!
How do you know when its occurring??
OBSERVATION, REFLECTION, DATA COLLECTION THROUGH
INFORMAL OBSERVATION TOOLS
Real time DATA; real time implications
• Creation of an electronic observation tool
• Extracting of all informal observations to one excel spreadsheet
• Weekly instructional data discussions regarding informal observations of the entire school
Real time data; real time IMPLICATIONS
• Ability to generate user friendly reports
• Ability to add professional development (accountability for implementation)
• Ability to monitor instructional practices and address accountability measures
• Ability to have discussions centered on specifics within daily instruction
SO WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE…
• School climate and culture issues-Low Expectations
• Under performance of students –Low test scores
• High number of discipline occurrences
• Low quality instructional practices
SO WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE…
• Focused PD Calendar
• Accountability for the implementation of PD into daily instruction
• Increase in test scores for school system assessments
• Clear expression of expectations
• Being able to use real time data to address instruction immediately
• Weekly discussion on instructional practices
Instruction Vs Discipline
Before Transformation Process
• Discipline: 1509 discipline referrals, 130students suspended once or more, 4327hours of total instructional time lost due to suspensions
During Transformation Process
• Discipline: 565 discipline referrals, 72students suspended once or more, 1462 hours of total instructional time lost due to suspensions
OBSERVATION TOOL
OBSERVATION TOOL DATA (SEPTEMBER 2011)
OBSERVATION TOOL DATA (APRIL 2012)
SO WHAT DOES IT NOT LOOK LIKE…
• You cannot continue to do what is consider the status quo…outside the box is transformation
Student Voices
• In the words of a student
The Common Core Standards advances the National College/Workforce Readiness Agenda:
An opportunity whose time has come
School transformation is the only response to this opportunity, and realizing
the power of data will be the vehicle to address the “gaps” that have persisted
for decades between African Americans and their white counterparts.
• School Transformation Readiness Assessment• Honoring the presentation participants’
voice• The Teacher
• Considerations from Dr. Williams• The Principal
• Considerations from Dr. Taylor• The District
• Considerations from Dr. Johnson
Now What? Next steps for realizing
the power of data
Thanks for your participation
Realizing the Power of DataDream Deferred Conference
April 26, 2012