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Shared Data, Shared Decisions
A Student-Centered Framework for a Healthy Data Culture
With strategic tools and templates to improve data collection, assessment, and usage, readers of Shared Data, Shared Decisions will develop more effective action plans for school improvement while promoting a dynamic, robust school culture that recognizes, embraces, and encourages individual students in their respective journeys and pursuits.
The intersection of data practices and school culture
Author Jason Williams develops a framework that balances data-based decision making with a deep consideration for addressing students’ unique needs to foster improved learning outcomes. Focusing on five qualities integral to a healthy data culture, Williams offers educators a simple, reliable way to assess and reconsider their data practices to ensure a positive school environment that empowers them to gather, analyze, and respond to student data with reasonable urgency and increased efficiency.
K–12 teachers and administrators can use this book to:
- Identify clear student learning targets to create effective assessments for data collection
- Plan and manage time strategically to ensure efficient data collection and analysis
- Establish a culture of trust to facilitate open and honest data discussion and sharing
- Promote transparency of data to develop well-informed, responsive action plans
- Embrace a tenacious spirit through the trials and errors of school improvement
