Summary Paper and Data-Driven Implementation Rubric

Data-Driven Culture

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1. Highly active leadership team: Facilitate teacher-leader data analysis meetings after each interim assessment and maintain focus on the process throughout the year.

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2. Introductory professional development: Teachers and leaders are introduced to data-driven instruction effectively—they understand how interim assessments define rigor and experience the process of analyzing results and adapting instruction.

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3. Implementation calendar: Begin school year with a detailed calendar that includes time for assessment creation and adaptation, implementation, analysis, planning meetings, and re-teaching (flexible enough to accommodate district changes and mandates).

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4. Ongoing professional development: Professional development calendar is aligned with data-driven instructional plan: includes modeling assessment analysis and action planning and is flexible enough to adapt to student learning needs.

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5. Build by borrowing: Identify and implement best practices from high-achieving teachers and schools: visit schools and classrooms; share and disseminate resources and strategies.

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Assessments

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1. Common interim assessments: Assessments conducted four to six times per year.

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2. Transparent starting point: Teachers see the assessments at the beginning of each cycle and use them to define the road map for teaching.

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3. Aligned to state tests and college readiness.

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4. Aligned to instructional sequence of clearly defined grade-level and content expectations.

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5. Re-assessed previously taught standards.

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Analysis

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1. Immediate turnaround of assessment results (ideally within forty-eight hours).

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2. Data reports provide user-friendly, succinct item-level analysis, standards-level analysis, and bottom-line results.

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3. Teacher-owned analysis facilitated by effective leadership preparation.

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4. Test-in-hand analysis between teacher and instructional leader.

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5. Deep analysis moves beyond what students got wrong to answer why they got it wrong.

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Action

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1. Planning: Teachers plan new lessons collaboratively to develop new strategies based on data analysis.

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2. Implementation: Explicit teacher action plans are implemented in whole-class instruction, small groups, tutorials, and before- or after-school support sessions.

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3. Ongoing assessment: Teachers use in-the-moment checks for understanding and in-class assessment to ensure student progress between interim assessments.

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4. Accountability: Instructional leaders review lesson and unit plans and give observation feedback driven by the action plan and student learning needs.

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5. Engaged students: Students know the end goal, how they did, and what actions they are taking to improve.

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