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A Reader Asks… The 13 Question Final Exam

A LYS campus instructional leader calls me out. SC, A 13-question final better than what we already have?  Empty boast or the real deal? SC Response My goals with a comprehensive final are to: 1. Assess student mastery of the content. 2. Determine if the scope of the content was covered. 3. Determine which concepts we,…

The Power of Instructional Coaching – Round 1

A LYS Assistant Principal writes: SC, We conducted our first round of PowerWalks conversations with our teachers in late October and our biggest takeaway from these initial conversations was the lack of critical writing taking place on our campus. We couldn’t hide from the data; in our classrooms critical writing activities were an infrequent occurrence. …

A Reader Writes… (Student vs. Teacher Data – Part 1)

In response to the 8/17/2011 post, “Student vs. Teacher Data,” a LYS Principal writes: SC, I enjoyed your post, “Student vs. Teacher Data.” Ronald Thomas shares your thoughts as he writes the following on this very subject in Education Week (My Nine Truths of Data Analysis – 6/15/2011): “Focus on instructional insights derived from data.…

Student vs. Teacher Data

Student vs. Teacher data: I recently had a frustrating meeting about this subject with someone who should know better (a big district C & I director). Parroting E. Don Brown (which is always a good idea), “We have beat student data to death. Let it go.” I’ll paraphrase the meeting1. An aligned curriculum should have…

More What Does the Data Show

Recently, I was working with a new LYS High School Principal. We have just completed our first semester supporting her campus and we were reviewing mid-year progress. One piece of data that the principal was excited about was the reduction in the number of teachers who had failure rates greater than 20%. In the Fall…

A Reader Asks… PowerWalks

A regular LYS reader asks, “I’m very interested in PowerWalks. Our district utilizes the 3 minute walk through, which takes longer than 3 minutes, that’s for sure. Not sure that I’m 100% committed to this way of doing walk throughs. I’m looking for something that will benefit my teachers and students better.”SC ResponseSome quick background…

A Reader Writes… (Working Hard – Part 2)

In response to the post, “Working Hard,” a reader writes: Thanks for getting to the core of the supposed ‘low morale’ issue that always occurs at this time of year. Teachers are aware the clock is ticking. And the ones that ‘overslept’ one day too many know that their data doesn’t look so hot right…

Data Use

There are two basic types of data to work with in a school, student data and teacher data. Using student data is the first stage of data analysis and if you aren’t using data on your campus this is where to start. Student data will indicate where the low hanging fruit can be found. For…
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