Interpreting assessments of school or district results
Planning requires a firm grasp of the soft meaning of test results. It also requires that the progress of the same students over time be measured. Learn how to make reasonable claims of the progress of student learning in your school or district. Smarter plans will be the result.
Interpreting assessments
Test results are uncertain, and human judgment is fallible. Yet, handling that uncertainty properly can improve the quality of human judgment. Learn the assessment fundamentals that will boost your team’s assessment IQ and help them make wiser decisions.
Reporting assessment results
Assessment results are frequently misunderstood by everyone – staff, leaders and parents – and one culprit is poor quality reporting. Learn the do’s and don’ts of assessment reporting. Understand the roots of those misunderstandings. Discover how easy it can be to avoid these hazards.
Mismeasurement of schools’ and districts’ vital signs
Whether or not your school or district has landed in differentiated assistance, it’s time to review the limits of the Dashboard. We will review the roots of mismeasurement, and show you other approaches that enable you to see your school’s or district’s vital signs in a new light.
Impact of accountability reporting
Enrollment and reputation of your schools and district are affected by accountability reports. Learn what happens to your accountability reports once they are published. Includes parent choice scenarios, and their search for facts that influence their decisions. Includes review of other sources of school information.
Accountability reporting fundamentals
Schools’ and districts’ reputations are rising and falling based on their accountability reports. Yet the skills required to do it effectively have not been codified and conveyed to those responsible for doing that work. You’ll learn how to do this effectively, and what a difference good reporting can make.
Planning with comparative visual evidence
When you see the vital signs of your district or school in the context of others whose students are very much like your own, you may be very surprised. Learn to see those vital signs with fresh eyes when you expand your visual vocabulary. See progress of test results redefined in a way that makes sense.
Planning with evidence: district plans (LCAPs)
District leaders can’t be expected to write smart LCAPs without sound evidence and solid methods. We’ll enable planning teams to become better judges of the quality of evidence they use, and better forecasters of outcomes. And we’ll help them avoid the risks of relying too much on faith when projecting improvements.
Choosing the right analytic methods
Your staff needs more than a mantra to use “multiple measures.” They need to know how to use those measures, and what to do when those measures conflict. Gap analysis and year-to-year change measures require more than simple subtraction. Learn the right way to derive these key measures.
Telling data stories persuasively
Leaders who hold high quality evidence in hand still need to learn how to persuade others. There’s an art and a science to data story-telling. We’ll teach you how to do it, so you can tell memorable stories in front of any audience that are persuasive.
