Whites Creek High
February 13, 2018
Using Collaborative Inquiry for Analyzing Data
and Making Recommendations

Whites Creek High used the collaborative inquiry process for analyzing data and creating Spring 2018 recommendations for supporting student success
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Activating and Engaging
What is your Vision for students?

The meeting began by asking them to brainstorm their vision for students at Whites Creek High?

Exploring and Discovering--Data Dive

Multiple sources of data from the MNPS Data Warehouse were used to have teachers make observations......

Organizing and Integrating--Traffic Light Protocol

Groups discussed recommendations that they want to stop, continue, and start for Spring 2018.
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Reflection---What might be some actions I take as a result of our conversations today?

  • Build parent relationships with phone calls not emails—(3)
  • Use data warehouse! The time investment is worth it.
  • Collaborate with math and English teachers to reinforce standards.
  • Participate more in collaborative dialogue voicing my opinion not being passive
  • Drill down into the data
  • Have collaborative conversations around data, looking at data trends
  • Be more consistent in enforcement of rules.—(2)
  • Engage/activate more intentionally
  • Use more positive reinforcement
  • Speak with my principal
  • Establish set policies within my classroom that I can maintain and uphold
  • Utilize data to get a better understanding of my students—(4)
  • Be more realistic
  • Give them the best I have everyday
  • Model the excellence I expect of them
  • Have more engaging lessons so students want to be in my classroom—(3)
  • Communicate/express concern about students with instructors before it becomes a problem
  • Collaborate with parents—(2)
  • Open line of communication and relationships
  • Encourage highly effective teachers to work at WCHS
  • Make learning interesting and fun and also more rigor
  • Celebrate small victories
  • Break my class into collaborative learning process
  • Have data conference with my students who are not doing well
  • Give more consistent, real time feedback
  • Develop better understanding of data and its meaning
  • Build relationships
  • Making observations of data
  • Use data for positive data
  • Stop “babying” students
  • Use data to help students improve
  • One on one conferencing
  • Collaborative referral
  • This could work if we could get past the GIANT obstacle that is student buy-in
  • Be more alert to student absences
  • Work on by discipline
  • Have a balanced work and home
  • Spend more time developing relationships with students

How was the meeting?

Plus

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  • Review of data observation
  • Actual data in hand and not on screen—(2)
  • Informative
  • Engaging—(2)
  • Linking attendance and behavior to test scores
  • Having multiple years was nice—(3)
  • I love the collaborative inquiry chart
  • Comparing
  • Time for group work/discussion
  • Relevant data—(6)
  • Feedback to give to admin
  • Nice to see data
  • Paced well—(2)
  • Good intro to data
  • Organized—(2)
  • Data/resources prepared
  • Nice delivery of material
  • There were activities
  • Learning was relevant for all teachers
  • Understanding how to look at data with an open-mind
  • Important info
  • Started on time—(3)
  • Ended on time—(2)
  • Learned how to access the data warehouse
  • Collaborative
  • Traffic light protocol
  • Thought provoking
  • Respect for time
  • Data in black and white
  • Able to speak with colleagues about data and inferences or causes
  • Learning more data
  • Clear outcomes presented
  • You did a nice job by being kind to us.  We need it.
  • Length of meeting
  • More time
  • Going deeper
  • It was difficult to read the data charts without a little guidance—(3)
  • No key for data—(2)
  • We should see all data at once to compare/contrast—(3)
  • No snacks
  • What’s the why/main point of meeting—(3)
  • What if you did teams and a scavenger hunt to find specific data sets among all of the data sheets provided…fastest team wins
  • Teacher survey paired with behavior data
  • What’s worked in past
  • Meeting was spontaneously scheduled—(2)
  • Go at a slightly slower pace when a question is asked to ensure all respondents can hear and reflect accurately
  • Provide printed sheet with websites to search
  • More solutions to problems
  • Lack of info
  • Actual walk through of mining data using our own laptops
  • Ways to access this information
  • Few opportunities for cross table collaborations