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Essentials
Stages of Teaching Creating a Comprehensive System for Evaluating and Supporting Effective Teaching..
From The Editor
You’ve settled in for a Law & Order rerun, and by 22 minutes after the hour, a murder suspect is in custody. The victim’s family, the police, and the prosecutor are all secure in the ..
Put Data in the Driver’s Seat
Teachers in the Federal Way (Wash.) Public Schools had no shortage of student data. Standardized test scores, unit tests, and report card grades were as familiar to educators as reading, writing, and ..
The Rules of Evidence
A few years ago, I learned an important lesson about gathering evidence on the outcomes of professional learning endeavors. Several colleagues and I were asked to evaluate the effects of a new progra..
School-based Coaches Plant Seeds of Learning
Schools and districts are inundated with data from a variety of sources. As a result, using data to guide instructional planning can be daunting for teachers and schools. While schools and districts a..
Link Data to Learning Goals
In 2010, district leaders of Douglas County Public Schools, Douglasville, Ga., launched an ambitious initiative to ensure that teachers set goals that focus on increasing their effectiveness and show ..
Teachers Harness The Power of Assessment
Improving systematic use of student data to inform the work of teachers, schools, and districts has become a hot topic in education reform. Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning str..
The X Factor is ‘Why’
“We’ve been doing this for years, and nothing’s ever happened. This is the first time we’re actually going to do something with the data.” This exclamation came from a teacher wh..
A Playbook For Data
The Story: A District Learns to Interpret Data Karl Kline was a school improvement field consultant for a regional educational service center. He had spent 10 year..
Up Close
Spotlight: Data Quality Campaign Data Quality Campaign is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, national advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. Launched in 2005 by 10 foundin..
