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Practitioner Data Use for Continuous Improvement

Course Overview

Increased accountability for improved student outcomes has prompted the need for prioritizing data use for informed decision making and professional practice. In general, education settings comprise of data users who are not necessary data experts. The practice in schooling organizations has often been to employ external data experts to provide support with data collection, management, and interpretation on education data.

This course will enable those closest to the education data and those whose daily decisions and actions are most directly connected to the data to become proficient data users for improved teaching and learning. It is designed to help teachers, teacher teams, and administrators use education data accurately. The course will enable educators to better understand and appropriately implement the data inquiry cycle for a more systematic and rigorous use and interpretation of education data for continuous improvement.

Objectives:

• Understand the data inquiry cycle, associated tools, and vocabulary needed to support data-informed conversations and action in education.

• Use education data more systematically and accurately.

• Identify and investigate a specific question using authentic, context-based education data.

• Make decisions about instructional planning based on investigation of authentic, context-based education data.

• Generate a data plan and process to use with teacher/school teams.

• Possess enhanced self- and collective efficacy around data use for decision making and professional practice.

Requirements:

Successful course completion includes: evidence of investigation, implementing the data inquiry cycle, on a specific teaching/learning question based on education data from the participant’s schooling context. Data plan and process for use by participant’s teacher/school teams.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

8am – 11:15am

$79

CSU Main Campus

Julka Hall Room 191

2485 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115

PROVIDES 3 CONTACT HOURS/0.3 CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS/CEU’S FOR TEACHERS

Cleveland State University is an accredited university approved to offer CE education in the state of Ohio.