Academy 1: Mining Meaningful Data

This Academy helps participants develop their skills to analyze data over time to adjust and improve their strategies for instructional improvement. The activities in this module begin with personal reflection by participants on values and beliefs about the identification, collection and use of data for school improvement. It continues with a brief overview of the new accountability systems, moves to current methods being used by school systems and how this affects all students, and ends with an activity that requires participants to continue their reflection on tracking data that they can use to prepare for subsequent activities. Participants use data from their own school or another school in their state to begin to examine the link between data and practice changes.

As a result of the activities and information shared at this Leadership Academy, participants will:

• Clarify their reasons or rationale for using data to change practice.
• Identify and align meaningful data to renew their school improvement efforts to be more culturally responsive.
• Determine what data should be used to guide practice.
• Use school wide improvement survey and other forms of displaying outcomes to analyze data.

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