Work with your district data staff to ensure regular access to chronic absence data in order to target your success mentor interventions and monitor whether progress is being made.
Not exact matches
Create a mentoring program where Amazon engineers, economists,
data scientists, accountants, and other professionals are partnered
with hard science teachers in our school
districts to help show kids what it's like to
work in STEM;
Led by the Ministry of Energy and MaRS Discovery
District, a
working group was formed
with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and representatives from the energy sector to adopt and implement the «Green Button
data standard» — a common format for customers to securely access their
data from their electric utilities.
It brings together (a) fragmented reflections from my three years of living and
working with the Paraiyar communities in about 20 colonies around the town of Karunguzhi in Chingleput
District, Tamilnadu (1985 - 87); (b) systematically documented
data from a six - week intensive field trip in two of these 20 colonies, i.e., Malaipallaiyam.
As the Faith Church committee sought to develop a pathway into the future, it
worked with census
data on ethnic diversity, household changes, and patterns of age groups in the
district.
Durbin urged the USDA to «
work with CPS to ensure that the school
districts, which rely on individual
data acquired through school lunch applications, are able to participate in an innovative program like» this one.
Share best practices in
working with Title I, gathering Identified Student Percentage (ISP)
data, determining what's best (school,
district - wide or a group of schools) and providing outreach
data to the State.
In every
district, we expect the assemblies to provide our staff
with office space for the period that they will be
working in the
districts to gather
data and information.»
We have seen accountability
data improve in
districts where we have
worked with parents, and we have seen parents create projects that boost student achievement.
Inconsistent Transportation: When late buses were impacting our ability to get teachers to their PLC
Data Team meetings on Thursdays, our central office and union leadership identified the problem during a no - agenda meeting — the need to change
district bus schedules to accommodate all schools — and
worked with our transportation provider and building administrators to ensure that we didn't jeopardize this initiative moving forward.
Professor Thomas Kane and the team at the Center for Education Policy Research are experts at
working closely
with districts and harnessing big
data to identify effective policies and practices in teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and learning technologies.
I was intrigued — in my role at the
district I had
worked exclusively
with adults when it came to analyzing
data.
This is despite the fact that microlevel
data is critical to improving day - to - day student performance, says Beverly Donohue, vice president of policy and research at New Visions for Public Schools, a school support organization responsible for
working with 76 of the
district's public schools.
«SDP offers
districts and states a terrific opportunity to catalyze their analytical talent,» said Glover, «We look forward to
working closely
with SDP partners to develop and expand methods of identifying, collecting, and analyzing
data to help education leaders make policy decisions that are likely to have significant impact on raising student achievement.»
As part of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, SDP has been
working with districts, charter school networks, state education agencies, and nonprofits since 2008 to transform the way they collect and use
data to support their program, management, and policy goals.
For example, a
district might arrange to provide targeted schools
with materials online to
work around book shortages or improve dramatically their access to interim assessment
data.
In her
work with the
district's senior leaders, Ngounou used the
data she gathered to create new processes and
work plans, often focusing on collaboration and communication.
The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school
districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance
data; and
working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.
In every
district with available
data, and for all three sets of elections, other
district employees who live and
work in their
districts vote at substantially higher rates than ordinary citizens do — rates that, on average, are just a shade lower than those of teachers who live and
work in the
district.
In their
work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been
working with school
districts around the country, using
data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.
Nathan Kuder, a fellow
with the project
working in Boston's Office of Accountability, has helped the
district make sense of its
data concerning the delivery of services to English language learners.
«Being selected to participate in a national network of education leaders as a Strategic
Data Project partner allows our
district to learn from and work with some of the most skilled analysts in the field,» said Sharon L. Contreras, superintendent of the Syracuse City School D
district to learn from and
work with some of the most skilled analysts in the field,» said Sharon L. Contreras, superintendent of the Syracuse City School
DistrictDistrict.
Initially funded at $ 650 million, i3 allowed school
districts, charter schools, and non-profit organizations
working in partnership
with one of those entities to apply for grants to support innovative programs aligned
with one of four broadly defined federal priorities (e.g., supporting effective teachers and principals or improving the use of
data).
Our
district has a cadre of
data coaches that
work directly
with schools to help them learn how to best leverage the
data
Jessica
works with all of ICT's
districts and their
data, and is also a research fellow at the Student Social Support R&D Lab.
She has administered the OECD Test for Schools as both a high school administrator and as a
district test coordinator and has
worked extensively
with the
data with administrators, staff, and community.
These revamped
data systems could both identify
districts in need of additional support such as finance and leadership training and superstar
districts with leaders who could share what
works among their peers.
Barnes & Thornburg partner Scott J. Witlin, who is
working with Kirwan on the suit, argues that Stull Act required the
district to use
data from the state's «criterion reference test» in evaluating teachers, yet it hasn't done so.
Carrell and Hoekstra
worked with a confidential student - level
data set that consists of observations of students in grades 3 through 5 from 22 public schools over the period 1995 — 2003 in a
district of roughly 30,000 students.
In Austin, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce has
worked with the Austin area's 15 independent school
districts on issues of
data transparency and college enrollment, as well as providing expertise and sustained pressure for both goals.
Districts should
work with school principals to help expand the range of highquality
data available to schools in order to more fully encompass the range of variables implicated in schools «problem - solving efforts.
This unexpected finding suggests that pressure, arising from targets and an emphasis on
data use, may backfire in the classroom unless it is balanced
with support (in this case, through professional development), so that it
works by building a strong collective leadership base in the
district.
During the pilot, VirtualSC
worked with districts to implement the project, collect
data, evaluate the results, and make recommendations.
We extend heartfelt thanks to the superintendents, principals,
district administrators, teachers, school board and community members, and state leaders in education who welcomed us into their busy
work lives, providing time to talk
with us, to observe in classrooms, and to complete surveys, all of which gave us the most complete national
data set ever assembled to better understand issues in educational leadership.
«
District leaders, from superintendents to board members, are
working with educators to create a culture of high expectations,
data - based decision making and high - quality instruction, while fully engaging students and parents as partners.»
Work to ensure that
districts utilize a common
data standard to collaborate
with and share screening, formative, interim, and summative
data sets.
School - level
data are not available online;
district administrators use the
data internally to
work with schools, Mr. Garcia said.
Mr. Maycock has also
worked directly
with district and charter school leaders across the country while at ANet, leading on - going coaching and professional development to help schools and
districts implement
data - driven instructional practices.
She has served as a facilitator of school planning,
working with district leaders, principals, teachers, and parents to make
data - based decisions.
Schools and
districts in need of solutions to address challenges will
work with CCE's field of experts to develop plans for improvement and strengthen capacity through one - on - one coaching,
data - based inquiry, and professional development.
We
work collaboratively
with district / school leaders to gather and organize perceptual
data, early formative data, and vendor, state, and district provided summative / formative data into a Comprehensive Data Analysis (CDA) rep
data, early formative
data, and vendor, state, and district provided summative / formative data into a Comprehensive Data Analysis (CDA) rep
data, and vendor, state, and
district provided summative / formative
data into a Comprehensive Data Analysis (CDA) rep
data into a Comprehensive
Data Analysis (CDA) rep
Data Analysis (CDA) report.
Data sources included: interviews
with district and school leaders, coaches, and teachers; observations of coaches»
work, professional development sessions, and classroom practice; and artifacts (e.g., instructional materials, professional development handouts, posters in classrooms).
Some schools
work with their intermediate school
districts (ISDs) or
districts, who use a central
data warehouse to track EWIs for their schools.
Then the state should
work to return test results to
districts a soon as possible to allow
districts and schools to
work with students and use
data to make decision for the next year.
David Ronka (
[email protected]) is Executive Director; Mary Ann Lachat (
[email protected]) is Cofounder and Senior Consultant; Rachel Slaughter (
[email protected]) is Senior Associate for Research and Assessment; and Julie Meltzer (
[email protected]) is Senior Advisor for Strategy, Research, and Design at Public Consulting Group's Center for Resource Management, an organization that has
worked with states,
districts, and schools to improve
data use; 200 International Drive, Suite 201, Portsmouth, NH 03801; 603-427-0206.
The HUSD began its partnership
with Attendance
Works to better understand the dynamics around chronic absenteeism and to take advantage of the organization's ability to disaggregate
data in meaningful ways the
district had previously not been able to generate.
Staff,
with support from Attendance
Works, mined the
data to identify schools that were «bright spots» or positive outliers so that the
district could draw from what was already
working.
At Ingham ISD, we are
working with our local
districts providing early literacy supports and using
data to help inform families about their student's progress.
She has consulted
with many
districts in the implementation of screening and progress monitoring systems, and she enjoys
working with teachers and administrators to build their skills in using
data to inform classroom instruction and monitor the effectiveness of instructional programs at the school and
district level.
As an example of gathering and communicating about
data to extend conversations about equity, one
district we recently
worked with as part of an equity
data review chose to reach out to a wide range of parent and community stakeholders to collect
data about their experiences and perceptions of local schools.