Data Team Seminar

Data Teams are a model for collaborative action that empowers professionals to improve teaching, learning and leadership.  Data teams’ process is built around conscientious attention to understanding and operationalizing standards, assessments, and data.  The data team system provides a dense process for continuous improvement that addresses:

•             Accurate and consistent curriculum standard interpretation.

•             Utilization of data for improved learning through responsive instructional strategies.

•             Building capacity of staff (individually and collectively) to instruct EVERY student successfully.

•             Establish a collaborative culture

The seminar was facilitated by Mary Jane O’Connell from the Doug Reeves’ Leadership and Learning Center in Englewood, Colorado. The Center’s known for its ground-breaking work in 90/90/90 Schools℠ across the country (90% poverty, 90% minority, and 90% of students meeting or exceeding standards).

Eighty participants attended including representatives from Burlington, Chariton, New London, Van Buren, Wapello, Great Prairie AEA and thirty teachers, administrators and board member from Mount Pleasant.

Key Learnings:

• How the six step process fits into your district or school and improves student achievement

1.       Treasure Hunt

2.       Needs Analysis

3.       Prioritizing Needs

4.       Setting Goals

5.       Identifying Instructional Strategies

6.       Determining Results Indicators

• What data addresses your most pressing issues and questions related to reading, writing, and mathematics student achievement

• Whether you are currently collecting data that does not inform the urgent issues related to student achievement

• 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

• The limitations of data

• How data teams are formed and their purpose

Immediate Outcomes:

·         Post-seminar processing with participants to plan fall training and implementation

·         Further Certification Training