Data wall high school

Data meetings at the high school level are rare. In this post, I share with you how we structured our last data meeting at our high school.

It’s a daunting task: collecting data in the classroom. Setting up a data program and managing it is not only a lot of work, but it can also be confusing. Typically, data folders are created and then left to collect dust on a shelf. Those are the kind of data folders or portfolios that are teacher or admin driven – just to check the box, so to speak. But what if it didn’t have to be that way – really? For years my students have charted their own data and reflected weekly on their learning…

It’s a daunting task: collecting data in the classroom. Setting up a data program and managing it is not only a lot of work, but it can also be confusing. Typically, data folders are created and then left to collect dust on a shelf. Those are the kind of data folders or portfolios that are teacher or admin driven – just to check the box, so to speak. But what if it didn’t have to be that way – really? For years my students have charted their own data and reflected weekly on their learning…

In the lead up to the 2019 school year, Instagram was filled with teachers creating beautiful things for beautiful classrooms. But as the parent of a school-aged child, one thing worried me - the number of displays which were created just to share the academic and behavioural levels of children in t

Data walls are meant to be interactive – not just decoration. Teachers need to be involved in the process in order to fully claim ownership for the results and the strategies being implemented. Having set days to change the data are imperative as well as having data discussions planned. In my experience working with a...Read More

My favorite thing about data tracking is how excited students get as they master skills and record their progress. Their binders become… | Elizabeth Ingram (@lonestarclassroom) on Instagram

I stayed late at work yesterday to write everything on my data charts and update them since my students took their first test today. Here's how it works: I use blue incentive charts from Creative Teaching Press along with their book and pencil stickers. I have a chart for each class period. To keep names confidential, I write the students ID numbers along the left side. I use my roster so the kids are still in alphabetical order, it just has their number instead of name. Across the top I…

This has been something I have been doing for a while. Teacher judgments and data from a tool called OnDemand are easy to see in this way. This is a great way to see which cohorts across the school are sitting at the same level and need the same strategies, skills or content. By exporting the data into an excel spreadsheet and using the vlookup tool to attach student data and then colour code allows you to see all year levels. We copy them and display for staff/teams to use and also they are…

We needed to thoroughly understand the format and context in which end-of-year exam data was made available to principals and how they processed and interpreted this data. My approach to understanding this problem was to conduct a series of contextual inq…

Check out this awesome visual that we created below to see the "big picture" as far as our students reading levels. A data wall unites a school by bringing a staff together to see students as "our students" versus his students or her students. We are going to use it to help identify students for reading interventions, to visualize common trends in data, and to set goals for where we want our students to be. We keep the data wall in the hallway that leads to our teacher's lounge. It is not…