Data Analyst Track
Beginner Excel
The goal of this workshop is to introduce school and LEA staff members to Microsoft Excel and an overview of the basic features so that they feel more comfortable using Excel in their work. This workshop is divided into five lessons which will navigate participants through the major components and basic features of Microsoft Excel:1. Creating a basic worksheet 2. Performing calculations 3. Modifying a worksheet 4. Formatting a worksheet 5. Printing a workbook. At the end of the workshop, participants will receive a one-page guide with Excel resources, tips, and helpful reminders that they can use in their work.
Target audience: Beginner Data User
Speakers: Danyelle Ireland and Leah Diggs-Gnatiko
Session 2
Building and Interpreting Student Growth Models
In this workshop, participants will use their student assessment data, or the provided sample data, to build student growth models and analyze the results. Participants will also examine the characteristics of different growth models. This will include how to interpret growth models, why and when to use them, their statistical foundation, required data, setting standards based on the model, and common misinterpretations to watch out for.
Target audience: Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User
Speaker: Jennifer Glenski
Session 3
Database and Data Quality Concepts from Input to Use
Basic data management processes, including data entry, are critical to ensuring data quality. The goal of this presentation is to improve the quality of data gathered in student data systems by increasing the understanding of key database concepts among staff, school, and district personnel and administrators responsible for data entry, collection, and reporting. Participants will learn how the use of standard data management processes can improve data quality and better inform school and district decisions. Topics covered will include an introduction to relational databases and key concepts such as primary keys, data standards, data quality checks, and basic data analyses.
Target audience: Beginner Data User
Speaker: Nancy Smith
Session 1
Data Dashboards 101
Using Google Sheets or Excel, participants will be able to develop "dashboards" that drive multiple analyses and increase the specificity of data usage through the use of a single large dataset. While many schools have student information systems that are able to house large amounts of data, they are not always easily or significantly customizable to generate data reports to drive decision making. This workshop will focus on how to create very adaptable tools to filter down and focus in on specific subgroups from data that schools already collect. This workshop will also explore how to develop dashboards that specifically align to OSSE and PCSB metrics for attendance, suspension, and truancy.
Target audience: Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Data Coach
Speaker: Amanda Lumnah
Session 1
Intermediate Excel
The goal of this workshop is to provide school and LEA staff with formulas, functions, and strategies in Excel that will make their work more efficient, improve their analyses, and produce more usable results.This workshop is divided into three sections: Data Manipulation in Excel, Data Analysis and Visualization in Excel, and Tools for Data Verification and Protection in Excel.
Target audience: Intermediate Data User
Speakers: Danyelle Ireland and Leah Diggs-Gnatiko
Session 3
Open Source Tools for Data Analysis
This workshop is designed as an introduction to open source tools for working with data. Increasingly, organizations are turning to proprietary tools for their analytic and data work. These tools not only cost money to maintain but end up preventing organizations from being able to find innovative solutions to their data problems. This workshop introduces the use of free, open source tools such as R, the statistical computing program and language, and its many extensions, uses, and benefits.
Target audience: Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User
Speaker: Ben Robinson
Session 3
Using MAP Data to Set Goals and Engage Students and Families
The goal of this workshop is to outline the key metrics of NWEA MAP data and share lessons from KIPP DC on using MAP data with various audiences, including school leaders, teachers, parents, and students. Specifically, it will explore how to use MAP to set student, school, or district goals and to engage students and families. Ideally, participants will leave with the confidence to use MAP data to the fullest potential and concrete ideas on how that could look in their school or district.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Data Coach
Speaker: Kimberly Howard
Session 2
Data Culture Track
Data Informed Policy: Utilizing a Multidisciplinary Approach to Address DCMR Changes Impacting Speci
This presentation will explain how to use data to inform school policy and institutionalize a data-policy feedback loop to address critical school challenges. Changes to DCMR will prompt schools to change their policies and procedures to conform with the law. The availability of data systems capable of providing a longitudinal record of each student's educational experiences and performance allows schools to capture robust information about a school's environment. This reality gives schools the opportunity to use these data in their decision-making processes relating to school policy and operations. This presentation will assist school leaders in utilizing current data to develop special education policies aligned to local law.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Teacher, Data Coach, LEA representative
Speakers: Araceli Jacobs and Mark Hardee
Session 3
Is Your School Actually Data Driven?
In this workshop, participants will explore and self-evaluate their school and/or LEA on the EmpowerK12/EdFuel/FOCUS Diagnostic Rubric for Data-Driven Culture. Additionally, participants will identify strategies to help move their organization towards being more data driven. The workshop is set up to be interactive and have participants learn from each other.
Target audience: School Leader, LEA Leader
Speaker: Josh Boots
Session 1
RaiseDC Data Spotlight Award Winners Panel
In 2015, Raise DC recognized 10 DC-based organizations and local education agencies with Data Spotlight Awards for their innovative uses of education data to address the challenges DC youth face. The awards aim to shed new light on the impactful work happening in the District and seek to emphasize the value of evidence-based decision-making in education. Panelists from four of the award-winning organizations/LEAs—DC Prep’s PrepNext, Higher Achievement, The Literacy Lab, and Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School—will lead short presentations of their use of smart, scalable data. They will then participate in a moderated discussion to talk through some of the challenges to implementation and markers of success. Lastly, the panelists will facilitate small group discussion with session participants on ways to replicate these data models in their own schools and organizations.
Using School Data to Build a Culture of Care Around Chronically Absent Students
Attendance data can drive interventions, improve home-school relationships, and inform the school's understanding of student contexts. However, it is rarely collected in a way that helps schools understand why students miss school, an essential factor in helping families address the barriers they face. This session will discuss proven practices in attendance intervention through meaningful use of data and asset-based family engagement. Participants will learn how to make data collection and usage more effective for developing caring attendance interventions and stronger family-school relationships.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Teacher, Data Coach
Speakers: Amanda Klein
Session 2
Data Visualization Track
Introduction to Advanced Qlik Topics
Participants will recreate a simple, yet advanced, Qlik data report that employs a few of the advanced features of Qlik Sense. We will explore the data load manager, data load editor, data model viewer, and advanced formula scripting. Participants will learn how to use "set analysis" to create some of the advanced metrics and see how they compare to Excel-based formulas.
Target audience: Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User
Speaker: Josh Boots
Session 3
Visualizing Data and Communicating Information
The workshop will explore what data visualization is and why it's important. It will also help participants identify the proper purpose of the visualization and how to choose the right metrics, select the right chart type, and cover basic graphic design fundamentals.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, Data Coach
Speaker: Larry Jerome
Session 2
Evaluation and Improvement Track
Analyzing Classroom-Level Data to Support School-level Continuous Improvement
This workshop introduces the Developmental Environmental Rating Scale and its companion measurement tool, the Minnesota Executive Function Scale. The primary goal of the workshop is to engage participants in an interactive examination of the details of classroom environments that nurture executive functions.
Target audience: School Leader, Teacher, Data Coach
Speaker: Jacqueline Cossentino
Session 3
Data-Driven Instructional Coaching: Feedback for Improvement
Instructional data are everywhere, yet many schools are data rich and information poor. School leaders must develop a lens for effective instructional practice and use data collection tools and strategies that will improve classroom instruction to raise student achievement. The purpose of this workshop is to help teachers and leaders use classroom data and student data to improve achievement through better instructional practices. We will use Chavez Schools' instructional coaching model and data collection tools as a model. Essential questions for the workshop include the following:--What are the characteristics of an organization focused on learning?--What data indicate successful instruction? How do we know students are learning? How are these data collected and shared?--What professional learning moves instructional practice forward so that it increases student achievement?
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Teacher
Speaker: Rob Murphy
Session 1
Exploring the "Why" in Results: Helping School Leaders Dig into the Strategies That "Make" or "Break
Our workshop will focus on how to design and execute a formal process through which school leaders evaluate the success of strategies that are implemented to achieve school goals. We will present lessons learned from more than four years of implementing data discussions at the leadership level of the Maya Angelou Public Charter Schools (MAPCS). In addition, we will introduce participants to the current process in use at MAPCS through interactive activities and the distribution of templates. The discussion will include an overview of resources necessary to launch and maintain a formal process, as well as a timeline for implementation that has been successful at MAPCS. The aim of the workshop is to provide participants with concrete strategies that can be implemented to create or modify their existing processes to better understand why goals are or are not achieved.
Target audience: School Leader, Data Coach
Speakers: Adriana Rodriguez and Nora Shetty
Session 2
Root Cause Analysis: How Adaptive Leaders Use Root Cause Analysis to Collaboratively Solve Student A
Root cause analysis is a powerful method schools use to analyze data to solve problems; it aims to identify and correct the root causes of problems or events, rather than simply addressing their symptoms. It also helps prevent schools from making incorrect assumptions that solve the "wrong" problem. Educators use this approach in their schools and districts, both reactively (to understand the success or failure of past strategies) and proactively (to plan improvements in school performance). Participants will learn from a veteran practitioner about the value of this process and practical ways to use it in their school or district. This workshop will be helpful to educators regardless of whether they are familiar with this method of data use in their schools.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Teacher, Data Coach
Speaker: Roni Silverstein
Session 2
The "State of the Union" Data Cadence: Triangulating Program and Impact Data to Drive Action in Your
In this workshop, we will examine a powerful process for eliciting a culture of data-driven decision making in your schools. Participants will consider the intersection between program implementation indicators and measures of impact. By triangulating data across multiple sources to get at the heart of your key programmatic priorities, you can shine a light on where short and long-term action is most needed. Through this data cadence, you and leadership teams can come to the most important common understanding: the problem you are trying to solve. With this agreed on, mindsets around decisions are much more likely to be positive, focused, and collective.
Target audience: Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User
Speaker: Jessica Morris
Session 3
Using Data in Program Evaluations
The goal of this workshop is to teach school leaders and data managers how to design, conduct, and analyze program evaluations, using their school's data. The data focus is on making a data collection plan, what types of data to collect, and data analysis.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Data Coach
Speaker: Jennifer Glenski
Session 1
Family Engagement Track
Analyzing Family Engagement Data
In this session, school leaders and teachers will learn to distinguish between high- and low-impact family engagement strategies and to identify research-based best practices for family engagement. Participants will be introduced to a diagnostic tool, which will support them in analyzing their classroom or school-level family engagement practices, and will receive resources and recommendations for improving family engagement. Participants will leave the session with an action plan to improve family engagement at their schools.
Target audience: Data
Speakers: Flamboyan Staff
Session 3
Data Sharing with Middle School Families
The main focus of the session is to describe how data sharing in middle and high schools improves students' ownership of their performance and helps families monitor their child's progress. To set the stage for the session, I will present research on adolescent development and impactful roles that families can play in supporting secondary students. Then, the session will spotlight two strategies for data sharing – student-led conferences and online gradebooks – that honor adolescents' growing independence and engage families in monitoring their child's progress. Through this session, participants will:
• Understand the core components of each data-sharing strategy
• Hear testimonials from a teacher and parent that highlight the impact of sharing data with middle and high school families
• See student-led conferences and gradebooks in action
• Discuss how they can apply these data-sharing strategies to their classroom and/or school
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Teacher
Speakers: Flamboyan Staff
Session 2
Sharing Data with ECE and Elementary Families
The data captured by early childhood educators on young students' learning and development often look different than the traditional test score data captured in older grades. How can we share these data with families in simple, transparent ways that preserve the unique nature of monitoring early childhood progress? Participants in this workshop will walk away with:
• Key principles for sharing early childhood data with families
• Examples of the best way to share data with the families of young children
• A plan to share with other early childhood educators at their school how they will keep young children's families informed and involved in monitoring and supporting their child's progress
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Teacher
Speakers: Flamboyan Staff
Session 1
Operational Leadership Track
School Operations Strategies: Student and Staff Attendance
Student attendance tracking entails pulling data from a student information system and using it in Excel in a manner that enables efficient reporting on class and grade-level attendance percentages. Participants will discuss how data inform student attendance teams and intervention strategies. Adult attendance tracking refers to accurately reporting adult attendance data and best practices for using it to report up to principal.The session will cover the management of attendance tracking using MOCHA management techniques.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Operations manager/director
Speakers: Emily Allshouse, LiaFaith Reed, and Theo Thompson
Session 2
School Operation Systems: Enrollment Audit Readiness
The annual student enrollment audit can be a tedious process to complete and manage. This session is designed to demonstrate how an enrollment readiness tracker can be built and used to manage the annual enrollment audit preparation, manage staff who own the student registration and enrollment process, and ensure that enrollment audit day will result in 100% accuracy.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Operations manager/director
Speakers: Simon King and David Hicks
Session 1
Teacher Observation Systems
DCPS school leaders are required to complete three formal teacher observations for each teacher in their school annually. These observations serve as data for annual IMPACT evaluations. Kevin Cantfil, under the direction of his principal Lloyd Bryant, has developed a system using Zoho to assist the instructional leadership team in completing more informal classroom observations. In this session, learn how Kevin has set up this system, the pros and cons of the system, and the developments the team has implemented over the past two years.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Operations manager/director
Speaker: Kevin Cantfil
Session 3
Policy Track
A National Perspective on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Ms. Wentworth will give an overview of ESSA, with special focus on the implications of the legislation for issues related to education data.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Teacher, Data Coach
Speaker: Maureen Wentworth
Session 3
Data Privacy: It's More than Compliance
The main focus of this workshop is to provide school leaders with tangible tools, proof-points, and best practices in regards to student data privacy. We will discuss the importance of governance, leadership, and communication in protecting student data privacy and improving student achievement. We will also provide school leaders with an overview of FERPA and highlight examples of "what good looks like" in data privacy practices in school districts.
Target audience: School Leader, Teacher, Data Coach
Speaker: Bernice Butler
Session 2
How (and What) to Train Teachers and Administrators on Education Data Privacy
Ms. Vance will give an overview of key principles and issues that teachers and administrators should know about education data privacy.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, Advanced Data User, School Leader, Teacher, Data Coach
Speaker: Amelia Vance
Session 1
Teacher Development Track
Coaching for GROWth
The continuum of coaching spans from developing new skills (instructional coaching) to increasing the capacity to develop beyond one's present role or level of functioning (transformational). This session focuses somewhere in between--on peer coaching for results.One sequence of questioning/coaching, Whitmore's (1992) GROW model, is designed to generate a coachee's awareness and responsibility. GROW questions can be used formally, as in one-to-one coaching meetings, and more informally, as a part of everyday empowerment through informal channels of influence, as well as targeted management practice. The model assumes that basic levels of trust, affiliation, and "co-active" responsiveness are in place. The skill of "active listening" is both critical and basic to the coaching conversation, demonstrating that the coachee is heard clearly and accurately and is encouraged to express his or her perceptions and goals. The skill of "powerful questioning" involves a default style of asking open-ended questions to deepen the coachee's understandings and propel him or her toward new insights and discoveries.
Session Agenda:
•Welcome/Framing
•Introduce GROW
•Model and Practice G-R-O-W
•Conclusions/Key Takeaways
Target audience: School Leader, Teacher
Speakers: Andrea Suh and Heather DeBruler
Session 1 and 2
Time Management
As teachers make the transition to teacher leadership, they face many more demands on their time and attention. This session explores principles of time management that allow teachers to increase their effectiveness and reduce their stress. Participants then apply these principles to a case study of time use by a teacher leader. Participants will learn concrete tools to manage their priorities, tasks, and relationships, and they will work to synthesize these tools to create a personal time management action plan. The objectives of the session are to:
•Articulate best practices that empower teacher leaders to maximize their time, energy, and impact
•Analyze how time is spent relative to key responsibilities
•Plan and use tools to track tasks, manage relationships, and decrease stress
Session Agenda:
•Principles of Time Management
•Teacher Leader Case Study
•Using Your Priorities to Create Your Dream Week
•Task Management Tools
•Relationship Management Tools
•Action Planning
Target audience: School Leader, Teacher
Speakers: Fatima Coy and Katie Clark
Session 3
Teacher/Classroom Track
Analyzing Common Core Writing for Actionable Trends
While the Common Core State Standards emphasize both informative and narrative writing, argumentative writing receives particular emphasis due to its importance for college and career readiness.
Target audience: School Leader, Teacher
Speaker: Maia Blankenship
Session 1
Crafting Problem-Based Tasks in Math
This workshop is intended for educators who are interested in creating and implementing problem-based tasks in their classroom or supporting the implementation of problem-based tasks in others' classrooms.
Target audience: K-8 teachers, math specialists, curriculum designers, any educator interested in how to implement problem-based tasks (PBTs) successfully in elementary and middle classrooms.
Speaker: Nicole Wood
Session 1
From Exit Tickets to Enduring Understanding
Garrison leaders will open up their practice and share their practical approach to making key shifts in teacher planning time to improve the change in student prompts and work.They will share best practices and lessons learned from seeing a lack of change with instruction and how they influenced that change through a strong professional development plan for teachers.
Target audience: School Leader
Speaker: Maia Blankenship
Session 3
Mail Merge: The Most Powerful Tool for Communicating Data to Parents
Communicating student data to parents is a powerful component of building parent engagement. In this workshop, participants will analyze exemplars of parent data letters and learn to build their own by using mail merge.
Target audience: Beginner Data User, Intermediate Data User, School Leader, Teacher, Data Coach
Speaker: Katie Newmark
Session 3
Responding to Data: Tracing Misconceptions back through the Standards
In this math workshop, geared toward K-8 math educators, we will analyze data from an end-of-unit benchmark to determine student misconceptions and relate these misconceptions back to the standards to determine next steps for instruction. Educators will become familiar with the coherence map as the instructional shift of "focus." The goal is for educators to spend time using student work to determine teacher actions.
Target audience: School Leader, Teacher
Speaker: Shavonne Gibson
Session 2
Signposts of Learning: Using Formative Assessment to Move All Students Towards In-depth Understanding
As the landscape of education shifts to focus more on understanding of "big ideas" within and across disciplines and the skills of critical thinking and problem solving, educators are tasked with how to give all students access to a new terrain of learning that demands more from students' cognitive abilities. Our work at Two Rivers has been to refine the process of teaching and learning to empower students to grapple with challenging tasks to develop deeper understanding. Our workshop will address how to use formative assessment data to facilitate productive grappling and move all students towards synthesizing ideas and developing in-depth understanding across disciplines.Participants will learn how to effectively use formative assessment data to evaluate student understanding throughout the process of learning, the act of creating "signposts" of learning to support teachers in making effective data-driven decisions about instruction as they navigate through an instructional lesson unit. We will focus on incorporating two specific methods of collecting and using formative assessment into the before, during, and after stages of problem-based tasks: collective and individual text-based responses and discussion-based protocols.
Target audience: School Leader, Teacher
Speakers: Chelsie Jones and Kathyrn Mancino
Session 2
