Our Data Driven Decision Making Model and the creation of an Instructional Information Portal DATAG Conference, May 9 A AG C f 9th, 2008 2008 Metro NYSCATE Conference, May 16th, 2008 By Rhoda Fischer, Assistant Superintendent Curriculum, Assessment and Professional Development R V l Di t Ron Velez, Director of Management and Information Systems fM t dI f ti S t Richard Neidhart, Director of Curriculum, Assessment and Professional Development 1
Who we are Rhoda Fischer, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Assessment and Professional Development Has been with the East Ramapo CSD since 1969. She began her career as an English teacher in grades 7 to 12. After teaching for several years, she went on to become the English department chairperson at Pomona Middle School. In June, 1999 she joined the newly formed Curriculum Department as a curriculum associate Since then Mrs Fischer as been 1999, she joined the newly formed Curriculum Department as a curriculum associate. Since then, Mrs. Fischer as been promoted to Assistant Director of Curriculum and Director of Curriculum. In June 2007, she became the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Assessment and Professional Development. In her current position, Rhoda oversees curriculum development for grades K to 12; all assessments, both statewide and districtwide and the professional development for staff and administrators. Office #: 845‐577‐6394 email:
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Ron Velez, Director of Management and Information Systems (MIS) Has been at East Ramapo CSD since August 2006. As Director of MIS, he oversees all the computer networks and information systems, which includes all student data. Previously he was the Director of Technology at Greenburgh Central 7 CSD in Hartsdale, NY. He also serves as an adjunct professor for the College of New Rochelle’s Graduate School of Education. Office #: 845‐577‐6084 email:
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Richard Neidhart, Director of Curriculum, Assessment and Professional Development Has been with East Ramapo CSD since August 1997. He has served as a social studies teacher, Dean of p g , students and High School administrator. As the Director of Curriculum, he oversees all state and districtwide testing, district curriculum development and provide support for professional development in 2 our 14 buildings. Office #: 845‐577‐6397 email:
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East Ramapo Central School District 105 South Madison Ave, Spring Valley, NY www.eram.k12.ny.us
• Located in Spring Valley, NY (Rockland County) • Prek – 12 Public School District • 10 paired elementary Schools, 2 Middle Schools, 2 High Schools • 8300 Students • 17,000 + non‐public school students 17 000 + non‐public school students • 85 % Minority • 60 % free/reduced lunch • 11 % ESL/LEP • 16 % Special Ed • Designated High need/Low Resource • Designated Urban/Suburban school district
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How do you make decisions based on data?
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How do you make decisions based on data? Our Data Driven Decision Making Model
Curriculum Writing & Review
Staff Development
Instruction
Students Data Analysis
Assessment
Using the IIP
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East Ramapo Central School District Data Driven Decision Making Model Some days y the model looks like this. Curriculum Review
Staff Development
Instruction
Students Data Analysis
Assessment
Using the IIP
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Curriculum Writing and Review • Curriculum Office at East Ramapo CSD was established in 1999. • The MIS Office was placed under the Curriculum Office in 2006 (one of the best decisions the district has ever made). • Using the NYS standards, textbooks and other materials, the district began to write its Using the NYS standards textbooks and other materials the district began to write its curriculum and aligned to the NYS standards. • Teams of teachers brought in over the summers to establish grade level objectives. • From the grade level objectives, the teams then developed curriculum maps for all subjects, which were distributed and posted on the district website.
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Assessment • The District adopted a philosophy that assessments and data analysis should drive instruction p p p y y and curriculum review through the use of both: • Formative Assessments: DRA’s, ERB’s , midterm exams, math unit assessments • Summative Assessments: Regents Exams, NYS 3‐8 exams •The district began to implementing common math unit assessments for grades K 8 created •The district began to implementing common math unit assessments for grades K‐8, created from District curriculum maps. These assessments are administered using paper scan sheets, which are then scanned over to the MIS office using the networked Xerox copiers in every building. • NYS 3‐8 – District internally scans (NCS scanner & Image Scan Tools software) and scores the NYS answer sheets before they are sent over to the LHRIC. Raw results are reviewed and released to teachers and administrators. • Regents – Regents – District internally scans and scores all of the regents exams and releases the results District internally scans and scores all of the regents exams and releases the results to teachers and administrators. • MIS office takes the scanned images (from the Xerox copiers) and runs them through the Teleforms test scoring software (local and regents exams). • In the early days of our model, test scores were emailed to principals and it was up to the principals to get the data to the teachers. This step was ineffective and it began a discussion for a better solution.
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Data Analysis using the Instruction Information Portal (IIP) • The IIP was born out the need to quickly score and distribute assessment data and reports directly into the hands of teachers and administrators. • The district wanted a system that was easy to use, web‐based, teacher‐centric and could be customized to the various assessments and needs of both the Curriculum and MIS offices Curriculum and MIS offices. • System needed to be available at all times from multiple locations, while providing useful data/reports to drive instruction and curriculum review. • The IIP was built on a Microsoft SQL 2005 database server, using Internet Information Services (IIS), the ASP.net programming language and it was unveiled to the teachers beginning in November 2006. • The IIP was designed specifically for K‐8 classroom teachers first, so we made the screens very easy to follow, with few links and choices to make to get to the screens very easy to follow, with few links and choices to make to get to the assessment reports. 9
Data Analysis using the Instruction Information Portal (IIP) • We then moved onto the High Schools, and started to scan the regents exams and we were h d h h h l d d h d able to provide scores and reports to department chairs and teachers within an hour of receiving the scanned images. • The high schools after seeing the speed and power of the system, began to want more data g g p p y , g and more reports. We designed reports that showed students with regents scores that required automatic re‐reads (these reports are instantly available as soon as the exams are scanned and scored). •Guidance reports – G id t we worked with the high schools and designed a graduate requirement k d ith th hi h h l dd i d d t i t report that verified if a student had met their credit and regents exams requirements for graduation. •We brought the instructional specialists in to help train the teachers on the use of data to drive instruction. • We then moved on to modify the IIP for administrators and central office. •Checks and balances for NYSTART and level 0 •Checks and balances for our Student information system •Checks and balances for our Student information system • We have begun to use the IIP for other things, like access to student labels and student lists (which were not available to teachers through our SASI system) and conducting internal surveys.
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Teacher eac e beg begins s by selecting any report link.
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If you were a middle or high school teacher you would also select your course and section. We import our master schedules into the IIP from our SASI student system. p y
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Student Test History
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Individual Student Report for an assessment
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Sample students results report for English Regents Jan 2008
If you click any session part, you then see the part, you then see the question details. A “dot” means it is correct and a number indicates the wrong indicates the wrong answer. 18
Sample test item analysis for a class. Also available for school and district.
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Sample item analysis by NYS standard NYS ELA 7 Exam Jan 2007
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Test Comparison using a bar graph District vs. School vs. Class English Regents Jan 2008 g g
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Sample “Edge” report for the Math A regents in Jan 2008 Provided P id d th the M Math th D Department t t a reportt off th the student t d t exam scores on the “edge” that required an automatic re-read.
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We designed a set of reports for our counselors to review how their students are progressing towards graduation.
Individual Student Graduation Review Report
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Individual Student Graduation Review Report (con’t)
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Individual Student Graduation Review Report (con’t) Course history
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Sample – Summary of HS Graduation Issues
Click here to see the students.
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Graduation Issues by groups of students
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We have started to design reports to provide a “check and balances” to Level 0 and NYSTART. In this example – we “mimicked” the NYS HS cohort report to provide the district with some sort of verification of what we were looking at was accurate.
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Sample System Admin functions The Curriculum and MIS office can choose to be any teacher or administrator Th C i l d MIS ffi h b h d i i and pretend to be that person in order to see their screen/report layouts or problems. We also provide a similar feature to the school principals.
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We are able to review who, when and how many times a user logs into the IIP.
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Data Analysis Drives Decision Making for Instruction Data Analysis Drives Decision Making for Instruction • At the elementary level, grade level teams bring student data from the IIP to their meetings to guide instruction, examples include: • Differentiated Instruction Diff ti t d I t ti • Writing skills • Best Practices • RTI • Use of technology (1st in Math, Waterford, Odyssey, Smartboards) • The IIP was then expanded to the secondary schools, using the IIP during PLCs and department meetings to drive instruction, examples include: • Writing skills Writing skills • Use of technology (Achieve 3000) • Best Practices (ELA Regents tasks)
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Data Analysis Drives Decision Making for Staff Development Data Analysis Drives Decision Making for Staff Development • Literacy/Math specialists, IF’s and chairpersons use data on the IIP to drive professional development and to provide resource support materials, examples include: • Math Workshops • Literacy (LitLife) • ESL (SIOP) • Differentiated lesson planning Differentiated lesson planning
Data Analysis Drives Decision Making for Curriculum Review • Use data from the IIP to periodically review curriculum maps to ensure they are aligned and sufficiently cover NYS standards. Use data from the IIP in grade level teams and PLCs to review district curriculum maps to • Use data from the IIP in grade level teams and PLCs to review district curriculum maps to ensure and provide effective instruction (concepts, time frames, etc.) 35
Then we start all over again
Curriculum Writing & Review
Staff Development
Instruction
Students Data Analysis
Assessment
Using the IIP
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What’s Next • What else can we include with assessment data? We base many of our changes on teacher feedback. • We would like to be able to compare common assessment data and drill deeper into a student’s actual work – include writings, artwork, music, presentations, reports, etc. (similar to an ePortfolio). • Dashboards and Web 2.0 tools. We are looking at creating a dashboard for Dashboards and Web 2 0 tools We are looking at creating a dashboard for administrators to get a quick glimpse of how their schools are performing on any given date. Looking at the idea of RSS feeds to bring lots of summary data together in one location Student attendance staff attendance assessment together in one location. Student attendance, staff attendance, assessment summary data, enrollment, budget, lunch, weather, news, alerts. • The district is investing in a student information system starting in the 2008‐09 school year. y • SIF – looking at a model to allow communication between all the district’s various databases. 37
What do you need in order to implement this in your district? • People – specifically need a data person and lots of leadership from central administration. • You need a network of people to help. You can’t do this alone. Its takes a team approach, along with a lot of patience and understanding because many teachers are afraid of along with a lot of patience and understanding because many teachers are afraid of assessment data. • If you use data as “evaluation” or “punishment” tool, you will not be successful. • You can choose to purchase a “canned” system or build one yourself. If you build it yourself th there are alternatives to the Microsoft software platform that we choose at East Ramapo. lt ti t th Mi ft ft l tf th t h tE tR You could use the Linux Operating System, the Apache web server and MySQL/PostgreSQL, which are open source software and free to use. Some popular canned systems are SchoolNet, Performance Pathways or ask your local RIC. y y • Time – we can’t stress enough the importance of providing time to teachers to be able to discuss the data reports with their peers and reviewing best practices. Our IIP system in many cases has given teachers back a lot of time, as they are not busy grading assessments and creating their own little reports any longer and creating their own little reports any longer. • It is a constant process, it never stops. • Come visit us and see what we do. 38
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