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School and District Support for PLCs at Trailblazer
District coaches support teachers and professional learning communities in using a common data collection tool and student work analysis to identify student needs and design appropriate learning pathways.
Common Data Practices
Students and teachers interact with data in a variety of ways, all geared toward improving teaching and learning.
Team Collaboration: How do leaders build in time and team structures for data-driven instruction?
Personalization in classrooms requires broad, intentional use of data across schools and systems. This guide explores how leaders can foster effective data-driven instruction by setting aside time, creating structures, and offering supports needed...
Edtech Tools Inventory Spreadsheet
This spreadsheet can be used by school and district teams to conduct an inventory of their edtech tools. The spreadsheet template includes space for general information about the tool, purpose, data collection, and privacy.
Data Advocacy: Getting Started
Data plays an integral role in informing districts, schools, and communities of successful trends and in identifying critical areas for improvement. It can also play an important role in advocating for change. However, given the complexity and...Tool: Data Advocacy Reflection and Planning Workbook
This tool has been created to support teams when using The Learning Accelerator (TLA)'s Data Advocacy Guide. This workbook intends to foster productive dialogue within stakeholder groups to guide the collection and analysis of data to better...
Lovett Elementary School
Lovett Elementary in Chicago provides blended and personalized learning to its students in grades 2-5.
Advice: Recommended OER Resources
If you are a district administrator or educator interested in Open Educational Resources for your classrooms, we recommend you check out these resources.
Measurement in Action: Using existing data and staff to measure personalized learning
We engaged in two researcher-practitioner partnerships (RPPs) with Distinctive Schools, and Leadership Public Schools over one school year to help them determine how best to scale their personalized learning initiatives. Here are the lessons we...
Collecting Data in Pursuit of Equity
Using data to understand how the system is serving different groups of students
What are critical decision points when measuring to inform and improve teaching and learning practices?
Teachers and education leaders must make a series of critical decisions when beginning measurement to inform and improve teaching and learning practices. This guide provides an overview of three of these decisions and offers guidance on how to make...