Data Walls A Data Picture of Our School

Goal 1: Student Achievement Wrightsboro Elementary School

What are Data Walls?

Data Walls are a purposeful way to display data. K-2 shows Dibels, TRC, and Quarterly Math assessment data. 3-5 shows Classcapes, Dibels, and Quarterly math assessment data. Change over time to show student progress. Data Walls can show any data that a teacher wants to monitor in the class. Data walls can be used to set goals with students. A picture of our school!!!!

Why use Data Walls?

Motivate students. Visual display of level of students. Helps you understand your classroom better. Shows progress monitoring data. Promotes goal setting with students. Provide information about our students response to our instruction! To encourage us to discuss the patterns and trends that are within/between/among grade levels. To help us analyze a struggling students data and behaviors in order to discuss possible interventions.

How Do We Respond to the Data?

Teach Design Engage! Reflect Assess

We must teach, assess, reflect, design, and teach once more, gathering data as we go so that we discover how best to engage those students for whom we are responsible.

Like Dean Smith of UNC Tar Heels fame, we are called to take a four corners approach to instruction

Like the opposing team facing the Tar Heels Four Corners offense, we must initiate play or lose the game!

Data Walls Reflect Student Achievement Results Based on Assessment Data From:
District State

School

Student Engagement Data May Reflect:

Average daily attendance/absences. Percentage of students using after school tutoring services. Percentage of students engaged in extracurricular activities (e.g. Safety Patrol, Flag Team, Green Team, Student Council, Fourth Grade Chorus, and Peer Mediation) Percentage of students retained each year

Student Discipline Data May Reflect:

The number of referrals. Top reasons for referrals. Number of parent conferences regarding discipline. Number of in-school suspensions. Number of out of school suspensions. Other kinds of disciplinary responses.

Survey Data May Reflect:

Student satisfaction assessment. Teacher satisfaction assessment. Parent satisfaction assessment. Administration satisfaction assessment. Community satisfaction assessment.

Demographic Data May Reflect:

Percentage of free and reduced lunch students. Student mobility (number of students entering and exiting throughout the school year). Subgroups enrolled (e.g., special education students, ELL students, race/ethnicity of our students).

On the Data Wall:

Performance targets for reading are tracked. Each child in every classroom and grade is tracked with a card. Special needs learners may be marked so their development can receive extra attention.

What are Benefits of the Data Wall?

Every student is monitored to ensure success for all students. Collaboration among all stakeholders offers a variety of key perspectives to help struggling readers. All educators who participate in the meeting are able to use the strategies discussed in their own classrooms. Administrators support the dialogue which promotes a shared vision. By noticing patterns and trends, the needs for targeted instruction are identified.

Data presented on the wall is effective when it informs practice. It is the key to effective teaching and learning.

Analyzing what the data reveals and using data to plan instructional experiences is the purpose of assessment. Data analysis encourages collaboration and discussion among grade level teams and across grade levels. Data analysis is an evolving, collegial event, not an isolated activity.

Whew! Thats a lot of information. Are there some simple questions to ask after viewing the data posted on our walls? Yes!

What do students need to learn? How will we know if they have learned it? What do we do when they dont learn it?

Are there some simple answers to these questions? Yes!

"Persistence prevails when all else fails." - Roy Williams, Basketball Coach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Play hard. Play smart. Play together." - Dean Smith, Basketball Coach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won." - Jim Valvano, Basketball Coach, NC State Remember the Four Corners? It is the final answer to the questions we ask ourselves each time we assess our students, and the final thought presented here.

We must teach, assess, reflect, design, and teach once more, gathering data as we go so that we discover how best to engage those students for whom we are responsible.

Examples of Data Walls