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21 Oct 09

Education Innovation: The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community: Data Driven and Skeptical of Data

"Being focused on current “real time” student data that can be acted on is key for Professional Learning Communities. Data, the right kind of data, is essential for driving the day-to-day instructional program of team members. The right kind of data is actionable, that is, it can be used to make instructional decisions based on current student learning needs.

But there is another side to data that requires some skepticism. "

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09 Jul 09

AllThingsPLC » Blog Archive » Three Rules Help Manage Assessment Data

Thomas Meany summarizes..."a conversation with Damon Lopez, former principal of Los Penasquitos Elementary School in San Diego. Lopez believes that in order for teachers to maximize the impact of data gleaned from assessments, principals should honor three rules and ensure that data is 1) easily accessible, 2) purposefully arranged, and 3) publicly discussed. In those schools where “making meaning” of assessment data is a powerful experience, principals take responsibility for creating the necessary structures associated with the first two rules and insist that teachers commit to the last. Rather than working individually to make meaning of assessment data, the most successful principals have discovered it is far more productive to create the conditions under which teams of teachers can make meaning of the data.

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