Building a Data Culture Webinar Series

Webinar 1: Ensuring Access to Data

School and system leaders ensure that educators and teams have easy access to data in an interpretable format—educators can't use data if it's not readily available and actionable.

Resources: 

• Presentation
• Accountability Data Tools and Reports
• Using Non-Assessment Data for School Improvement
• Using Local Assessment Data: iReady
• Using Local Assessment Data: NWEA MAP 

Webinar 2: Building Knowledge and Skills to Use Data

Many educators need additional professional learning to know how to interpret and use data.

Resources: 

• Presentation
• Data Analysis for Small Student Populations
• Developing Trend Statements 
• Selecting Comparison Points
• Becoming a More Equitable Educator: Mindsets and Practices Course (from the MIT Open Learning Library)

Webinar 3: Making Meaning from Data

Provide dedicated time for educator teams to meet and discuss the data, collaborating to find meaningful and useful insights to inform action.

Resources: 

• Presentation
• CDE Strategy Guides (includes Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), Coaching)
• Weekly Data Meeting Plan (from Uncommon Schools)
• Using a Student Work Analysis Protocol to Improve Outcomes (from Relay)
• Unpacking the Standards Task Card (EL Education)

Webinar 4: Clarifying Data Use Expectations

It's helpful to be clear about how the data will be used, by whom, and for what goal or purpose, so that educators know which teams use data in different scenarios.

Resources: 

• Presentation
• CDE Strategy Guides (includes Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), Coaching)
• Toolkit for building a culture of data use (from Northeast Regional Education Lab)

Webinar 5: Leading to Support a Data Culture

School and system leaders are active and intentional about nurturing data use among their teams and providing the environment for their educators to develop skills and feel comfortable integrating meaningful data use into daily practice

Resources: 

• Presentation
• How to create a data-driven school culture (from NAESP)
• How do leaders build in time and structures for DDI (from the Learning Accelerator)