Goals/Objectives of Data Teams
SEED Project
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Devils Lake Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Identify students for intervention services (red, yellow, and green)
2. Help teachers set goals based on data
3. Collect and analyze data AND share with all staff
4. Align data with programs both now and in the future
5. Evaluate programs; follow through on what is and is not working
6. Celebrate progress
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Richardton-Taylor Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Getting the data into a usable format (visual)
2. Liaisons between the data team and staff as a whole
3. Follow through on any and every thing
4. 3R Strategy; analyze data; review school improvement goals and
decide a path
5. Promote the use of data
6. Have fun and celebrate
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Nesson Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Promote the use of data
2. Make the data easily available
3. Disseminate the data
4. Provide strategies for how to use the data
5. Identify strengths and weaknesses (both district and building)
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Leeds Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Customize the data which allows us to prioritize and make it
meaningful
2. Provide support on using the data; be a resource; TIME
3. Analyze the data
4. Data quality (ensure this)
5. Communication to stakeholders; what data means and why it is
important
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Carrington Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Establish process for K-12 data use
2. Use data to drive decisions and make change
3. Synthesize data to make user-friendly
4. Provide teaches with strategies to use data
5. Making useful and understandable for students and parents; how to
effectively communicate (i.e.—media method)
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Dunseith Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Share the data and training with other staff
2. Solicit feedback from key stakeholders
3. Unifying data across the district
4. Commit to this process
5. Help facilitate questions to lead to improvement; spirit of inquiry
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Kulm Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Identify the key pieces of data and what to focus on
2. Choose the sources where we draw the data from
3. Be the leaders (use it)
4. Help the other teachers understand; facilitate collaboration
5. Share the data (process); take ownership
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Maddock Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Share ‘what we learn’ with the rest of the staff; systematically
2. Know the data
3. Share the story with stakeholders
4. Acknowledge success
5. Ingrain the attitude and mission in the staff; be leaders
6. Bring it to the student level
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Park River Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Collect and disseminate data for use
2. Collect feedback from staff/stakeholders to make further decisions
3. Plan/organize professional development opportunities; mentor new
staff
4. Publish results for stakeholders, students, and staff
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Grafton Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Make data available to all
2. Prioritize what is important
3. Teach teachers and students to interpret data
4. No DRIP (data rich, information poor)
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Underwood Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Identify your data sources
2. Build an assessment calendar which includes EVERYTHING
3. The what and how to use the data we have and get
4. Solicit input from stakeholders
5. Create a process
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Mott-Regent Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Incorporate the data in teaching; give new strategies to the teachers
for using with students (focus on the ‘now what’)
2. Collaborate and meet to study the data first and foremost;
understand the data
3. Align our curriculum K-12 (vertical alignment)
4. Follow through on suggestions; constant assessment and evaluation
5. Celebrate baby steps;WIN
6. Provide resources to allow for easy adoption of changes
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
McKenzie Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Understand how we will use the data AND what data
2. Make changes based on what the data says
3. Research best practices (slow down the process)
4. Make the data relevant to the classroom teacher, the classroom, and
best practice
5. Debunk the perception that more data means more work;
demonstrate what ‘they’ will get out of the data
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
New Town Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Direct curriculum choices/decisions
2. Decide where to go next; set a path for the future
3. Organizing the data
4. Leaders in their respective buildings (the model)
5. Collect, analyze, and understand the data
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Northern Cass Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Provide time for teaches (protect the time)
2. Protect learning time
3. Organize and disseminate the data
4. Help teachers understand what data is telling them
5. Strategies for instructional strategies (best practice)
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Mohall Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Organize the data
2. What data to utilize
3. Start the common assessment discussion
4. Revamp PLC’s with a data focus
5. Lead in informing and sharing data with stakeholders
Launching a Data Team
 What will the data team do?
Fessenden-Bowdon Data Team Goals/Objectives
1. Why and what data we will use
2. Analyze data
3. Plan how to utilize the data (strategies)
4. How to share out the data (sharing the data plan)
5. Use data to improve instruction