Data

Advocacy
Accountability
& Assessment
For Social Justice and Learning for
ALL Students

Class 8
Reading Recap
Data storytelling?
Data can be used for bad:
● Deficit narratives
● Blame/condemn individuals

Data can be used for good:

● Celebrations of success, creativity,
imagination, liberation
● Strengths and triumphs
 Data Itinerary
General Types ASCA Data
01 Basic definitions of 02 Process, Perception, and
common school-based data Results

Data Cycles Data Flash Mob?

03 11 Steps to Accountability 04 This is just an activity!
 01

Types of Data
5 Definitions for Commonly
Referred to Data
 Common Types
Anecdotal
Personal observation
Not replicable or documented
Helpful in building, not testing, hypotheses
Disaggregated
Broken down by demographics
(ethnicity, grade, gender, special
education status, FRL, ELL/ML,
Teacher, etc.)
 Common Student Data
Achievement Achievement-Related
Grades, GPA Course enrollment patterns
Standardized Tests Discipline referrals, suspensions, ATOD
Grad rate, retention rate, drop-out Attendance
Passing, completion of classes Family involvement
AP, College Prep Homework completion

Standards/Competency
#/% of students with 4-year plans
or career portfolios
#/% of students volunteering or in programs (conflict
resolution, tutoring, service learning, etc)
 State of Ohio Data

Score Cards
Department of Education posts to
their website

Searchable and is disaggregated

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Data by ASCA
Used for ASCA Program Evaluation
 ASCA Types
Process Perception Results

What did you do for whom? What did people do differently So what is the impact?
after your intervention?

__ students receive XX curriculum Post test after a program Attendance rates for XX improved
Surveys or evaluation forms from ___ to ____

Held 6 group counseling sessions In post-group eval, students in the As a result of the anger
with 6 students on anger group improved from 40% to 90% management group, discipline
management who can identify anger triggers. referrals for fighting are down 15%
Data must be
collected and
tracked over
time to have
meaning.
 Possible Routine Data
→ Disaggregate!!

Needs Assessments Other sources…

Student, parent/family, and teachers Weekly attendance
Grades
Schedule (ex: September, January, May) Referral reports

What to include? What’s allowed?

What are
good indicators of success and support?
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Data Cycle
Accountability at it’s finest
Advocacy with purpose
1 Ex: Behavior (10 fights)

2 What types of data?

3 What are other factors?

4 What’s the cause?

5 Intervention

6 Data - Is it working?
 The Steps
Identify & Plan Implement & Assess

1 Disaggregate the Data 6 Collect Baseline data

2 Identify the areas of concern 7 Apply intervention

3 Explore the data and situation 8 Collect post-intervention data

4 Research Best Practices 9 Compare current data on area of concern

with post-intervention data

5 Design an intervention that blends best 10 Expect incremental growth

practices with what works with your kids
AND in your building 11 Use data for advocacy, accountability, and
assessment
Example
(From an internship student in 2010)

Identify & Plan

1 Disaggregate the Data Disaggregated data suggests attendance issue among

Hispanic boys in 7th grade

2 Identify the areas of concern Attendance is issue in middle school

3 Explore the data and situation Counselor talked to principal and teachers to gain their
perspective on reasons for attendance problem. He talked
with kids and found a variety of problems from home and
school
Example
(From an internship student in 2010)

Identify & Plan

4 Research Best Practices Best practices suggested including parents in intervention.

5 Design an intervention that He blended two intervention strands – one targeting parents
blends best practices with what and the other with the kids.
works with your kids AND in
your building
Example
(From an internship student in 2010)

Implement & Assess

6 Collect Baseline data He collected baseline data for the 35 students with the worst
attendance.

7 Apply intervention The intervention involved a parent presentation with the

district’s attendance policy translated into Spanish, presented
with an interpreter. Food, babysitting was offered at the
dinner hour. The student intervention was a soccer game
played on a wall – players moved the “ball” forward when
they came to school and checked in each day with the
counselor.
Example
(From an internship student in 2010)

Implement & Assess

8 Collect post-intervention data Counselor tracked attendance of the boys for 2 months.

9 Compare current data on area of He found a 200% increase in attendance for the boys during
concern with post-intervention the game. Parents brought students to school more often on
data time.

10 Expect incremental growth Improvement was confirmed!

11 Use data for advocacy, He used that information to highlight the work of the school
accountability, and assessment counselor with the principal and teachers.
 Using Data for….

Advocacy Accountability Assessment

Share the Data How well are you doing Program

your job?

Principal, teachers,
parents, advisory board, Used to show your impact over Students
etc. time

This can be social justice Results reports, closing-the-gap Self

work. action plans, curriculum plan, etc.
Challenges

1. Must use social justice throughout.

2. Must begin in planning stage.
3. Must be a “normal” part of the job.
4. Gotta do it.
BREAK!
04 Data Flash Mob?
A Data Activity
 Needs Assessment
Results School Report Card
(Equity Audit)
Sample Survey
Student Outcome Report
Student Outcome Report

Analyze for ~20 minutes

Review Student Outcome Report ~10 minutes
Share for ~5 minutes
 Processing Questions
How can this be created into a routine?
When, how, and why?

What are the outcomes you care about?

Why? What do they mean?

Who could you share this with?

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