In this opening section, Dr. Fox introduces the goals, structure and learning outcomes of the Institute, and explains that what began as a training for elementary principals has evolved to include school leadership teams. Thus, the training can support individual principals and administrators as well as leadership teams to increase the capacity at a school site to organize, analyze, interpret and use data to support student achievement.
Dr. Fox asserts that the focus is on classroom assessment data: the data that is generated by students and collected by teachers on a daily basis.
Relating the goals of the Institute, Dr. Fox states that the focus is on 1) building the capacity of Institute participants to use data, and 2) building the capacity to help others use data either in grade-level teams or by working one-to-one.
Next, he introduces the "principle's challenge" of developing a set of tools and strategies that work with all grade levels and subject areas. The Institute activities support the principal in meeting the challenge of providing a set of strategies and tools that can be applied to many different forms of assessment data.
Next, he frames the work of analyzing data with the four basic questions for instructional decision-making:
- What do I want my students to know and be able to do?
- How will I know they know it and can do it?
- How do I account for the student's performance?
- What am I going to do for the students who don't get it and those that do?
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