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The Data Book for Educators Who Don’t Like Data (and Those Who Want to Use Data Better)
This book provides the practical tools for data analysis and a crucial data mindset shift. Educational leaders can discover how to find causal data within student data, ensuring the humanity of every student drives instructional strategies. Learn how to use every data-driven decision to drive better instruction and lasting student learning.
A practical guide to data-driven decisions
Data is one of the most powerful guides to instructional efficacy, revealing insights about the students you serve. Author Michael Roberts challenges educators to move past correlative data to active, data-driven decision making. Learn how to analyze data with a real sense of purpose, uncovering the causal data needed to build effective interventions and innovative teaching strategies that enhance achievement for every student.
K–12 teachers, school leaders, and administrators can use this book to:
- Implement data as an insightful complement to teacher experience, knowledge, and skill
- Analyze data actively and more effectively, finding patterns to inform actionable plans
- Embrace data as a guide for improvement, not a means to threaten and blame
- Cultivate teamwork, trust, and vision among educators sharing data across their school
- Champion efficacy as the guiding principle toward data-driven decisions and changes
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“Educators must learn to interact with all types of data to create a structured and systematic plan for informing instruction that leads to student success. With The Data Book for Educators Who Don’t Like Data (and Those Who Want to Use Data Better), Michael Roberts has written another masterpiece. In this text, he reminds educators that they must look at ‘the human behind the numbers,’ and that ‘each number on the spreadsheet represents a student.’ It is a must-read for educators at all levels.”
“The Data Book for Educators Who Don’t Like Data (and Those Who Want to Use Data Better) is a refreshingly practical and comprehensive how-to guide that demystifies data use in schools and turns it into actionable information that genuinely improves student learning and adult practice. Grounded in research, yet written with clarity and purpose, this book offers practical, easy-to-implement strategies that educators can apply at the district, school, team, and individual levels.”
“The Data Book for Educators Who Don’t Like Data (and Those Who Want to Use Data Better) offers practical, actionable strategies that support educators in purposeful data interpretation and application. This book will help strengthen grade-level teamwork, providing a compassionate yet appropriately rigorous framework that supports teams who may be struggling with either the skill or the will to engage in meaningful data analysis.”
