1) The document provides guidance for teachers to summarize their mid-year data on student mastery of standards and character traits. 2) Teachers are instructed to check their overall average standard mastery for standards assessed to date and for all standards to gauge student progress and likelihood of end-of-year success. 3) Additional measures like pacing, coverage, and progress toward ambitious goals are to be reviewed and areas of strength or need identified.

1. REPORTING ON MID-YEAR DATA – STANDARDS MASTERY

2. It’s mid-year, and time to check your progress

3. To do this, you will
answer the question:
Where am I now?

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

5. Let’s walk through
some of these steps in
a tracker

6. Like always, you will share how you have
continued to treat your data with care
Honest Accurate
Complete
Error-Free

7. You will confirm you have at least one new
round of data
Note: you may have collected additional rounds of assessment since the beginning-of-
year. If so, you should also enter those rounds of assessment in your tracker!

8. Next, check your progress

9. Start with you Overall Average Standards
Mastery (STANDARDS ASSESSED TO DATE)
This average will give you a sense of how well students are learning the standards
you’ve taught. It may serve as an indication of how students are likely to perform
moving forward. However, it doesn’t tell the WHOLE STORY.

10. Next look at Overall Average Standards
Mastery (ALL STANDARDS)
This average tells you how well students have learned ALL the content they need to
master by the end-of-year. It’s this average that speaks to end-of-year standards
mastery.

11. For measures of
standards mastery,
both mastery AND
coverage count!

12. So check out your pacing and coverage!
• Are you on pace with your long term
plan? Have you taught the amount of
standards you intended to by this time
of year?
• Are you on pace with your assessment
plan? Have you assessed the amount
of standards you intended to by this
time of year?

13. Finally, see where you
and your students
stand relative to the
Ambitious Goal

14. Character data are important too—see
where you and your students stand
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15. Identify your most recent character average
Note: This average is found by taking the average of student self evaluations and
teacher evaluations. Remember you must collect 100% of self and teacher
evaluations for your round of data to be considered complete.

16. Next, see how much growth has been made
since your last round
Note: This average is found by taking the difference between your Round 2 average
and your Round 1 average. You must find this difference manually. You should also
note that your students may make positive OR negative growth!

17. Note whether your
character data increased
or decreased from the
previous round and why
you think this is the case

18. If any students left your class since the
beginning-of-year you may use “NETR”
Note: NETR stands for “Not Enrolled This Round” and signals that the student was not
a part of your classroom for this round of instruction. Please note, NETR should NOT
be used for students who were present in class, but simply missed your assessment.

19. Now that you can
answer the question
where are we now? It’s
time to answer our
next question:
How do I know?