Lovett Notes
A Newsletter for Lovett Staff
Coming up this week!
TELPAS Window All Week
Tuesday February 19
8:30 am Name that Book Competition; MC Williams MS
9:00 am Da Camera Visits TREK
Wednesday February 20
Da Camera Visits 3rd Grade
Progress Reports go Home
3:00 pm Student Council Meeting; Library
3:30 pm Brinkley’s Wedding Shower; El Ranchero
Thursday February 21
9:00 am Magnet Tour
3:15 pm SDMC Meeting; Data Room
Friday February 22
Go Texan Day
How do you know? ACTING on your DATA
Do you choose to act...on your data? If you want to enhance learning, you must choose to act on the data. After assessing students, whether it be using common assessment, DRA, weekly assessment or practice STAAR assessments, you must ANALYZE that data to determine what it is telling you about your students learning. After analysis, you must then CHOOSE TO ACT on what the data is telling you. Below is a checklist of effective practices that are important when you analyze your data and use your data to enhance learning:
1. You must first ANALYZE your data. If you miss this step your plans may have some impact on student learning, but it will not have optimal impact on learning. This should be done first individually and it is enhanced when you are also able to analyze in groups. Do NO SKIP THIS STEP
1a. When you analyze, you can not do this well without the actual assessment in front of you. You want to analyze the questions, see how your students answered and look at the question stems. How were the questions asked? What vocabulary was used? Were distractors used? This helps you to identify their misunderstandings and formulate a strategy for addressing.
2. Develop a STRATEGY: once you have completed real analysis of your data, you are on to developing a strategy. If you are just continuing with the same as you did last year, you won't see different results. "Plan with a purpose and not for the sake of just planning itself"
3. IMPLEMENTATION: Be specific about when you will implement. Outline this on a calendar with data and times. When you miss this step, you risk weeks and weeks going by and your great strategy never reaches your students
4. LESSON PLAN: The lesson plan is what most like to jump to. However if you are building a lesson without analyzing, without the right strategy and without an implementation timeline and plan, you are just planning for the sake of planning.
The above is a simplified list of effective practices to being data driven. I recommend looking at each practice and really reflecting on if you do this step and if so how well.