Data Days
ECA’s exciting and proprietary new program called Data Days, provides professional development on how to examine and interpret assessment data to inform instruction.
Data Days puts in place a structure for teachers to review, interpret and use progress monitoring data to improve and differentiate instruction in an ongoing way.
Data Days helps teachers to:
- Analyze student assessment data and prioritize needs;
- Use data to assess critical features of instruction, identify effective practices, structure content specific learning, plan more effectively, individualize and gather evidence of effectiveness
- Create and track benchmarks to better understand instructional effectiveness.
Data Days™ is divided in 6 modules.
Module 1
Creating a Framework: Understanding Data and Its Role in the Process of Continuous Improvement
Sharing Experiences
- Process of Data Driven Decision Making
- Power of the Question-Purposes of Using Assessment Data
- Gathering Evidence
- Creating a Data Inventory
- Multiple Data Sources
- Data Quality
- Pair Share Data Study Activity
- Reflection & Application
Module 2
Laying the Groundwork: Analyzing Assessment Data
- What the data are telling us
- Reflective Inquiry
- Dimensions of Instruction-Self Assessment
- Problems of Practice
- Analyzing Profile Data & Probable Causes of Student Performance
- Reflection & Application
Module 3
Reflecting on Teaching and Learning
- Sharing and Practicing Protocols
- Digging into the Data: Presentation, Data Analysis Activity, Group Debrief
Module 4
Research Based Instructional Strategies to Improve Student Performance
- Response to Intervention
- Deciding on Instructional Strategies
- Individual Classroom Case Study Analysis and Instructional Strategy Development
- Reflection & Application
Module 5
Differentiated Instruction
- Key Features of Differentiated Instruction
- Using Individual Classroom Case Studies to Create Differentiated Instruction Action Plans
- Round Table Discussions
- Reflection and Application
Module 6
Tracking Progress
- Tracking Progress Using Individual Classroom CBDM Data & Other Sources
- Setting Goals and Benchmarks
- Preparing Trend Lines
- Using Decision Rules in Progress Monitoring
- Application & Reflection