WOW! My first guest post!
Thanks Prachee!
Linnea and I worked with grade level teams at PSI last week for grades 3-5. Corey dropped in as often as he could.
The questions guiding the work were the 3 questions from PLC logs:
- How do we know students have learned?
- Who is progressing and who is not?
- What will we do to meet the needs of those who are not progressing?
These questions are also aligned with the district's strategic plan mission to increase student achievement without demographic predictability.
Teachers learned how to use ViewPoint
- This is a tool that allows easy access to student test scores, and allows drilling down using different perspectives.
- In ViewPoint, teachers looked at students' MAP results for reading and math and FAST scores for Spanish, for fall and winter.
- Teachers picked 1-2 students and talked about classroom data for those students, to triangulate multiple data points and arrive at an understanding of a student's achievement.
- Then they discussed what was already being done to meet the student's needs, reflecting on whether these strategies were working, and what could be done differently if the strategies were not working.
- We discussed race and systemic racism and how improving the achievement of students of color improves the achievement of all students.
From the Teacher Feedback Booth:Teachers reported that it was useful:
- to access data in ViewPoint,
- see student's achievement history,
- learn what a student was doing in other classrooms,
- share ideas of ways to communicate and collaborate with parents.
- One improvement they suggested was to have more time to do this work.
Now I just want to learn about ViewPoint!....Prachee....Thanks again for sharing this information with us!
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