NCDPI - AIG Coordinators’ Institute
Delve into Data Part I: Know and understand the available data
Modeling a Data Dive
What data is available?
- Do you know who to ask for data in your district?
- What else do you need/want to know before looking at specific data sets?
- Are there other data sets that are used by your district that would be helpful in evaluating programs?
Regarding the 3rd grade BOG data:
- Does the 3rd grade BOG data impact you? How so?
- How would you use this data with all teachers?
- Could this data impact your identification practices?
- How about if you did this at the end of 4th grade?
- What other questions do you now have about the BOG?
Regarding the ACT
- What is the most interesting/alarming trend or piece of data you saw?
- Howdo you utilize thisdata to impactinstruction in the classroom?(Ex: sharing best practices, professional development,etc.)
- What other high school data would you want to pair with this information?
- How would you present this in a PLC environment with content area teachers?
- Is there a focus you would want teachers to have with gifted students in their classroom?
- How would you review this with guidance counselors to help guide gifted students?
- Course placement
- Other questions?
Regarding AIG student drop out numbers:
- What factors might contribute to the trend of AIG students to drop out of high school before graduation?
- What service delivery options might we be able to provide to support the retention and graduation of AIG students?
- How are you preventing drop outs in your district?
- What more can do you?(What additional strategies could you employ to supportstudents at risk for dropping out)?
Delve into Data Part II: Program Evaluation based on district level data
What questions do we look to the data to help us answer?
- Am I challenging my students to be college- and career-ready?
- Are we cultivating an environment that maximizes student achievement and growth?
- How are we serving students, how should our services be different?
- What, if anything, do we need to change regarding our service delivery model? How do we know?
- What data dives would you be interested in doing?
- Which data would be most valuable for your district as you consider program evaluation?
- Math Acceleration
- High School Courses at Middle School
- CCP course work
- CTE access
- EOG, EOC, NCFE
- Credit by Demonstrated Mastery (CDM)
- MClass data
So what is your course of action to complete district data dives in order to make meaningful decisions about...
- Programming?
- Individual teachers?
- Individual students?
TABB Closure:
T: What is one major takeaway from today’s data dive?
A: What is one concrete action that you will take as a result of the data dive?
B: What is one barrier to keep you from conducting a local district data dive? How can we overcome that barrier?
B: What is one benefit that will result from conducting a local district data dive?
NCDPI – AIG Coordinators’ Institute
March 1, 2017