How to identify what needs to happen quantitatively to meet end-of-year goals, and how to set instructional next steps.

1. RESPONDING TO MID-YEAR DATA – READING GROWTH

2. Now is the fun time. Time to…
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3. You will answer the
question:
What needs to happen
to reach our goals by
the end-of-year?

4. Your assessment template provides guidance on
how to answer this question

5. To answer this question
you will do two
things…

6. First, you will quantify what it will take to
reach your Ambitious Goal

7. This means identifying what individual students
will need to achieve to reach their goals

8. And considering which students will need
additional support

9. It’s about quantifying success.
Let’s look at an example…
Let’s say your students have grown a
half-year (0.50 years) in reading. What
would it take for your students to meet
your Ambitious Goal by the end of
year?

10. Sounds like…
your students are on pace to achieve
one year (1.0 years) growth in reading
by the end-of-year. To reach the goal
you would likely need to double this
amount of reading growth.

11. Or, more likely…
you will need to consider how many
students have already reached their
student-specific ambitious goals.

12. Or, even more likely…
you will need to think about how many
levels each individual student needs to
grow to reach his or her student-
specific ambitious goal.

13. This may look like the following

14. Let’s be clear…

15. This isn’t about gaming
your way to your goal

16. This is about identifying
what all of your
students need to learn
in order to be
successful in the next
grade year and beyond

17. Once you have quantified what it will take to reach your goal,
the question becomes what you are going to do about it
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18. What instructional
actions you will take in
response to your data?

19. Make these instructional next steps…
• Specific!
• Say when.
• Say what.
• Say how.
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20. Sounds like you are
ready to prepare for
your in-person data
check!