Data Book for Educators Who Don't Like Data (and Those Who Want to Use Data Better)

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 skillAnalyze data actively and more effectively, finding patterns to inform actionable plansEmbrace data as a guide for improvement, not a means to threaten and blameCultivate teamwork, trust, and vision among educators sharing data across their schoolChampion efficacy as the guiding principle toward data-driven decisions and changesContents:IntroductionChapter 1: Data Collection and Compliance Versus Data UseChapter 2: The Facts Versus Your GutChapter 3: Data Observation Versus Data AnalysisChapter 4: Data as a Tool Versus Data as a PunishmentChapter 5: My Data Versus Our DataChapter 6: The Way We ve Always Done It Versus Finding a Way That WorksChapter 7: Data Compliance Versus Data OwnershipChapter 8: Work-Arounds Versus Plow-ThroughsEpilogueReferences and ResourcesIndex