RESPONDING TO MID-YEAR DATA – READING GROWTH

Now is the fun time. Time to…

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You will answer the question:

What needs to happen to reach our goals by

the end-of-year?

Your assessment template provides guidance on how to answer this question

To answer this question you will do two

things…

First, you will quantify what it will take to reach your Ambitious Goal

This means identifying what individual students will need to achieve to reach their goals

And considering which students will need additional support

It’s about quantifying success. Let’s look at an example…

Let’s say your students have grown a half-year (0.50 years) in reading. What would it take for your students to meet

your Ambitious Goal by the end of year?

Sounds like…

your students are on pace to achieve one year (1.0 years) growth in reading by the end-of-year. To reach the goal you would likely need to double this

amount of reading growth.

Or, more likely…

you will need to consider how many students have already reached their

student-specific ambitious goals.

Or, even more likely…

you will need to think about how many levels each individual student needs to

grow to reach his or her student-specific ambitious goal.

This may look like the following

Let’s be clear…

This isn’t about gaming your way to your goal

This is about identifying what all of your

students need to learn in order to be

successful in the next grade year and beyond

Once you have quantified what it will take to reach your goal, the question becomes what you are going to do about it

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What instructional actions you will take in response to your data?

Make these instructional next steps…

• Specific!• Say when.• Say what.• Say how.

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Sounds like you are ready to prepare for your in-person data

check!