Data-Driven Decision Making & Data Teams

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The Connecticut State Department of Education has partnered with The Leadership and Learning Center to provide professional development in Data Driven Decision Making and Data Teams. Data Teams occur on district, school, grade and/or content levels. At the grade or content level, teachers collaboratively analyze data from multiple data sources that include District Benchmark, State Assessments, DIBELS, and other common formative assessments, identify strengths of learning and obstacles to student learning and determine instructional research-based instructional strategies that will best address their students and learning objectives. Teachers reconvene to analyze the effectiveness of the instructional strategies selected and implemented at the previous data team meeting by examining student performance data that was measured using common assessments. School and District Data Teams are also used to develop and monitor improvement.

Data Teams General Information