Data Based Decision Making for Educators - MISA East 2011 Symposium Presentation. Data - Personalization - Social Networking

1. Personalized Data

2. Where does your data come from?

3. Your Turn
Where do you get data to inform your school or
classroom practice?

4. 1 Minute Timer
1 min

5. EQAO Data

6. Report Card
EQAO Data

7. Incidents and Suspensions
Report Card
EQAO Data

8. Incidents and Suspensions
Report Card
EQAO Data

9. Incidents and Suspensions
Report Card
EQAO Data

10. Data Overload?

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12. What does the data say
your students need?

13. Wrong Questions =
Wrong Strategies

14. EQAO Public Report
•31 page report
•Have you read it?
•Should you?
•How can this
information help
teachers in grades
other than 3 and 6?

15. Other information needed?
Is there a difference between male and female results?
Is there a difference between classes if more than one class?
How many students were at level 2 and came close to reaching
level 3?
What types of questions did students in levels 1 and 2 have
difficulty with?
How should our instruction change to address the answers to
the questions above?
How large was our grade 6 class – same questions as above?

16. Dig Deeper
38 students in Gr. 6
last year. 4 students would
represent an 11% increase or
decrease in results!

17. Dig Deeper
9 students were at level 2
last year. Moving 5 of
these students into level 3
would have resulted in a
29% increase in results.
Q. Who were the 9
students? Which ones
could have been
targeted?
Q. What would the
intervention have
looked like?

18. Student Questionnaire
Does anything
jump out from
the
questionnaire?
Example
-47% of
females like
math but only
27% feel they
are good at
math and only
13% feel they
use math
outside of
school.

19. Evidence
Informed
Decision
Making
EIDM

20. Your Turn
What does evidence informed decision making
mean to you?

21. 1 Minute Timer
1 min

22. Does data do justice
to your students?

23. What about the rest of the child?

24. What about the rest of the child?
My dad is
In jail.

25. What about the rest of the child?
My mom
My dad is doesn’t
In jail. always
come
home at
night

26. What about the rest of the child?
My mom
My dad is doesn’t My mom
In jail. always lost her job
come so $ is tight
home at
night

27. What about the rest of the child?
My mom
My dad is doesn’t My mom
In jail. always lost her job
come so $ is tight
home at
night
My dad is
an
alcoholic

28. What about the rest of the child?
My mom
My dad is doesn’t My mom
In jail. always lost her job
come so $ is tight
home at
night
I’m bullied
My dad is
every day
an
on the way
alcoholic
home from
school

29. What about the rest of the child?
My mom
My dad is doesn’t My mom
In jail. always lost her job
come so $ is tight
home at
night
I’m bullied I’m not
My dad is
every day sure of
an
on the way my sexual
alcoholic
home from orientation
school

30. Informed - Personalized
Appropriate - Data
IPAD Approach!

31. Your Turn
What is one thing you can do before the end of the year
to move to personalized data - that makes a difference to
one child
(name the student)

32. 1 Minute Timer
1 min

33. Professional Learning Network
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Learning
Network
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34. Google – Time Saver or Time Waster?
Google
Priceless resource
if used properly

35. Google – Time Saver or Time Waster?
Google
4,420,000 results for
boys literacy strategies

36. Google – Time Saver or Time Waster?
Google
4,420,000 results for
boys literacy strategies
4,510 results for “boys
literacy strategies”

37. Google – Use of filetype
Google
746 results for
Powerpoint
presentations that
focus on descriptive
feedback
“descriptive feedback”
filetype:ppt

38. Google – Use of filetype
Google
8790 results for pdf
documents that focus
on descriptive
feedback
“descriptive feedback”
filetype:pdf

39. Professional Learning Network
Google Alerts
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40. Professional Learning Network
Google Alerts
Sample daily email
Google Alert for
“wireless” +
“concerns” +
“school”

41. Professional Learning Network
Mashable
Stay current
Select topics of
interest
Receive email
summaries
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42. Professional Learning Network
Mashable
Sample - Daily email
of top stories in
selected areas of
interest

43. Professional Learning Network
Mashable
Sample Article -
Use social media
to share

44. Professional Learning Network
The Future of
Education
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45. Professional Learning Network
White Papers from
Vendors
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46. Professional Learning Network
GETideas
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47. Professional Learning Network
GETideas
Educational library
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48. Professional Learning Network
edWeb
Connect with
Colleagues in
Education
Create Professional
Learning
Communities
Collaborate on
Goals and Initiatives
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49. Professional Learning Network
Diigo
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50. Professional Learning Network
Diigo
Share resources on
topics of interest

51. Professional Learning Network
Diigo Groups
Sample – Weekly
email of top links in
selected areas of
interest

52. Professional Learning Network
ASCD
SmartBriefs
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53. Professional Learning Network
ASCD
SmartBriefs
Sample –
SmartBrief in
selected areas of
interest

54. Professional Learning Network
ASCD
SmartBriefs

55. Professional Learning Network
ASCD
SmartBriefs

56. Professional Learning Network
Edutopia
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57. Professional Learning Network
EduGains
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58. Professional Learning Network
EduGains
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59. Professional Learning Network
Twitter
TDOttawa
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60. Professional Learning Network
Twitter
Search for topics
and people with
similar interests

61. Questions
T. D’Amico
Twitter: TDOttawa
Thomas.DAmico@ottawacatholicschools.ca