Identify all patterns over time that the data reveal, positive and negative.

Assignment #4: Data
Analysis (due session #4 🙂
Data-informed
decision-making is a hallmark of effective leaders. Log onto: https://data.nysed.gov/ and/or https://reportcards.nysed.gov. This will open the school report
card sites. Start with the latest data
posted. Click on the dates you wish to
view, select your county, then your district, and then your school. Open and download the Educator Data,
Assessment Data, Student Data, and School Data. When reviewing the data from
2010 -2011 and older you will need to download the Accountability and Overview
Report and The Comprehensive Information Report (CIR) for your school. You repeat this process for the prior two
years. In other words, you will be
bringing the latest three years of data to the class.

Exercise # 4a: In-Class Group Project, Analysis
and Data-Informed Decision-making
Tasks:
1. What What story does the data tell?
a. How
would you describe your school’s demographic trends?
b. What
does your school do well? Evidence?
c. What are
the areas identified for further growth and improvement? Evidence?
2. Identify
all patterns over time that the data reveal, positive and negative. Be particularly sensitive to analyzing gaps
in performance levels between disaggregated groupings.
3. What
questions does the data raise? What
additional information would you need for planning purposes?
4. Identify
two areas in need of improvement or further growth.
a. What
systemic structures are enabling this performance to occur?
b. What
about your present design and thinking (MM’s) which has enabled these
structures to produce this pattern of behavior?
c. Create
Guiding Ideas for the changes you seek.
d. Identify
the evidence you will use to determine success.
e. Identify
the Innovative Infrastructures you will create.
f. Identify
the theories, methods, and tools you need to make the innovation success. Outline these separately for
every stakeholder group affected.
5. Based
upon your knowledge of the school and its present culture (your current
reality), using the MIT Vision Deployment Matrix formulate a plan to implement
your change initiative.
6. Predict
any unintended consequences based upon your initiative’s intended design.
7. Present
your findings to the class.

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