June 27, 2:00 – 3:00pm, Room: Fayette Gain experience from a former district value-added specialist turned principal, who has leveraged value-added data for over eight years. Learn how to pair value-added data with achievement data to gain a clearer picture of strengths and weaknesses for goal setting and school improvement. This session will show how to use student projections to facilitate productive parent-teacher conferences and prepare watch lists identifying at-risk students. Participants will learn how value-added data enable schools to plan for the future and reflect on past practices for continuous school improvement. Main Presenter: Chris Piper, Jonathan Alder Local School District Co-Presenter(s): David Lanka, Jonathan Alder Local School District

1. Create a Data-Driven School
Culture for Goal Setting and
School Improvement
Presenters:
Principal Chris Piper
Chris.Piper@japioneers.org
Teacher David Lanka
David.Lanka@japioneers.org

2. Objectives:
Attendees will use value-added data
– for goal setting and school improvement.
– to help teachers identify specific areas for
improving student growth in their
classrooms.
– to identify at-risk and enrichment students.
– to inform parents of their child’s progress.

3. Our Data Plan

4. From Data Review
Data shared To Goal Setting
with building
Data shared Goal setting
with teams forms received Additional
meetings with
teachers to
address areas
T-cap scores Goal setting of concern
reviewed forms complete

5. Sharing Building Data

6. Math Scores

7. 5th Grade Math Scores

8. Potential Questions For
Value-added Analysis:
• What subgroups experienced the smallest gains? Why?
• What subgroups experienced the largest gains? Why?
• What conclusions can you draw from the data about ability
grouping?
– Is what we're doing working? Why or why not?
• What is happening to the achivement gap?
– If it's widening or staying the same, what can we do to
close it?

9. T-cap Score Review

10. T-cap Score Review Cont.

11. Now What???
We can look at actual student
OAA performance from this
group and see that 15 students
were only proficient in
Reading Processes whereas
ALL students were above
proficient for Literary Text.
We found an area of strength
and an area for improvement!!!

12. Creating Watch Lists and
Enrichment Lists

13. Information for Parents
How useful would this be to help motivate
this student and his parents?

14. Information for Parents
This parent
contended
that her child
was falling
behind and
required an
IEP.

15. Information for Parents
This parent repeatedly questioned instructional
strategies and the lack of a text book last year.
This year he questioned again.
How is his child doing at Canaan?

16. Data for Beginning-of-Year
Goal-Setting Meetings
1. Class Score Reports (Success Website)
2. OAA Released Items (Success Website)
3. School Item Analysis Report (Success Website)
4. Current Grade Student Scores (Success Website)
5. Student Pattern Report (Battelle for Kids)
6. Diagnostic Summary (Battelle for Kids)
7. Performance Diagnostic (Battelle for Kids)
8. Custom Student Report (Battelle for Kids)
a. Students who last tested in last year’s grade
b. With projected proficiency
i. Current grade proficient 0 to 75% OR
ii. Current grade accelerated 50 to 100% OR
iii. Current grade advanced 50 to 100%

17. Questions???