5352 Week 4 Part 2

Need: Strengthen data driven decision making Activity: Technology Professional Learning Community (PLC) will receive training on making and updating spreadsheets. The PLC members will then train their content teams on how to use and maintain spreadsheets. The spreadsheets will then hold information on students like Lexile level so students can be given appropriate reading materials in their classes. They will also include test data and formative assessment results so students can be monitored the entire year. Need: Communication with stakeholders Activity: Campus technology liaison will conduct professional growth that shows proper email communication with parents and other interested stakeholders. Teachers will also be shown how to set up and maintain a webpage for students and parents. Need: Students need to engage in using higher order thinking skills Activity: Content coordinators will create technology lessons that integrate higher order thinking skills. Coordinators will then have professional development for teachers who will learn the new lessons and then come and use them with their students. Need: Students who failed TAKS should receive remediation Activity: Teachers will receive training from district technology personnel on computer software that will provide remediation to students who need help with TAKS objectives. One of the biggest needs on our campus is building staff confidence in working with spreadsheets. Our Math department works with spreadsheets in their curriculum, but the others do not. Spreadsheets are the way we will analyze our test results and we need to help our staff outside of the math department grow in using these tools. Most of the teachers admitted that they have a spreadsheet person on their team and that person leads the data analysis for the team. All of our teachers need to have the ability to run data analysis for their classes. The development of the technology PLC that will learn and then train their teammates will help in this area. The technology PLC will put all the data for students into one place. Teachers are always going to many different sources to get the whole picture of the child. A teacher usually has to go to the counselor to look up the cumulative file to retrieve old grades and test scores from the previous years. Another step would be to go the Reading Teacher to go and get the Lexile score. This would be followed by a trip to the assistant principals’ office to see if the child has a discipline folder. Finally, the teacher might visit with their previous teacher to see what kind of student they were the year before. This can be exhausting. Having all the data in one spreadsheet will allow the teacher time to sit down and really evaluate their students and make proper data based decisions for the students’ learning path.