Practical Tools

Protocol from Data Literacy PD Capsule

A great Data Literacy tool to help you out - coming soon

AMI Planning Tool - Study & Act

In the final stages of the PDSA process, use this tool to facilitate the studying of your data as well as deciding how to act on the results.

Preparing to Talk About Data - Conversations Cards

These conversation cards can be used by teams to guide their discussions about starting to talk about data.

Analyzing Data - Conversations Cards

These conversation cards can be used by teams to guide their discussions about analyzing data.

Resources

Multiple Measures of Data

This monograph discusses how analyses of demographics, perceptions, student learning, and school process data provide a powerful picture to help improve understanding of a school’s impact on student achievement.

What is student data?

This infographic provides an overview of the different types of data that can come together to form a full picture of student learning.

Data Quality Campaign Infographics on data

This series of over 12 infographics illustrate the connections between data and student success.

Using data wisely at the system level

This article is an introduction to the “Universal Data Wise Improvement Process” and what it looks like in action Phi Delta Kappan, September, 2017

Leadership lessons from schools becoming ‘data wise

An article

Rethinking thinking

This video introduces the concept of the ‘ladder of inference’, which explains how our thinking moves from observations to inferences and actions.