Data-Driven Decision-Making
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Building Capacity for Data-Based Decision Making Through Effective School Leadership and Job-Embedded Learning
Summary
This hour long edWeb podcast is sponsored by Illuminate Education. School leaders play a critical role in creating a culture of data-based decision making and empowering teachers to use data to impact future learning outcomes. During this edWeb podcast, research-based practices are shared that will help you to build capacity in your school for data-based decision making through effective leadership. You also learn how educational leaders can leverage data-based decision making as a platform for job-embedded professional learning.
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District and leadership teams might choose to listen to the podcast or watch the webinar for information around the systems, structures, and practices that enable effective data-based decision making. Tips are provided on how to improve collaborative practices and increase collective efficacy of data teams. The role of job-embedded professional learning in developing instructional effectiveness through data-based decision making is explained. A reflection guide can be found in the Supporting Resources section for individuals to reflect upon the content presented in the webinar/podcast. A link for watching the webinar recording has been included in the Additional Resources section.
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Smith, C. C. & Smith-Peterson, M. (Hosts). (2022, November 10). Building capacity for data-based decision making through effective school leadership and job-embedded learning [Audio podcast]. edWebcasts. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1181414/11673849-building-capacity-for-data-based-decision-making-through-effective-school-leadership-and-job-embedded-learning
Data-Driven Instructional Decision Making
Summary
The Practice Guide includes five recommendations that are intended to form a framework that examines data use at all levels of the system.
The first recommendation focuses on making data part of an ongoing cycle of instructional improvement.
The next recommendation focuses on students becoming partners in their own education, and teaching students to use data—to examine it and develop their own learning goals from it—can be one way to foster that partnership and help motivate students and make them really feel like they are part of the educational process.
The remaining three recommendations focus on what schools and districts need to do to create the conditions that are necessary to support data use and to establish a vision that everyone can get behind in terms of how they want to use data in the school.
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District and leadership teams might choose to individually assess where the district falls in terms of using student achievement data to inform instructional decision-making using the self-assessment worksheet included in additional resources. Teams might then view the six-minute video prior to delving into the practice guide. The goal of the practice guide is to formulate specific and coherent evidence-based recommendations for use by educators and education administrators to create the organizational conditions necessary to make decisions using student achievement data in classrooms, schools, and districts.
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Hamilton, L., Halverson, R., Jackson, S. S., Mandinach, E., Supovitz, J. A., & Wayman, J. C. (2009). Using Student Achievement Data to Support Instructional Decision Making. IES Practice Guide. NCEE 2009-4067. National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance.
Institute of Education Sciences. (2017, November 30). Data-driven instructional decision making. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU5_LYN_-ls&list=WL&index=1