ALL: Data Wise.
SPEAKER 1: Step seven.
DEIRDRA AIKENS: Step seven is important to the Data Wise process
because you must monitor and evaluate your progress as you go along.
If you're going to keep moving in that direction,
you do want some data points or some checkpoints
along the way to tell you you're headed in the right direction.
All of our action plans have a timeline, and we do that
by identifying short, interim, and long term goals.
An example of a short term goal might be an upcoming chapter assessment,
or perhaps a short quiz or formative assessment
we developed as a school team.
An interim assessment, an example would be maybe an upcoming unit
test, or maybe our middle of the year STAAR assessment.
And an example of a long term assessment would
be perhaps our statewide assessment or an end
of year content related assessment.
NATASHA REID: One of the ways that we could tell whether or not
the strategy was working was through forms of assessment,
so we looked at formal and informal assessments.
I would look at classwork, where the students were
working on their problem solving.
I would look at exit tickets that the students would answer.
I would also look at our classroom assessments as well.
DEIRDRA AIKENS: So we assessed our progress, really,
through the goals that we identified or through the short,
interim, and long term assessments that we identified.
NATASHA REID: As a combination of these items,
we were able to focus on the problem solving parts and see,
are we seeking improvement with the students being able to problem solve?
When I look at their work, do I see that students are effectively highlighting?
Are they using the skills that we have practiced
with closely reading and math.
So we created a checks and balances list where we set up interim assessments
that we would use to identify whether or not the students were making progress.
DEIRDRA AIKENS: For example, the fifth grade team
chose the highlighting strategy, so if I walked into a classroom
or in a professional learning community meeting,
I would see evidence of that by student work with highlighting on it,
or I would see their plan book with the highlighting strategy indicated there,
or maybe some resources hanging around the room that are helping students
know what to highlight and when.