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Preparing for the Fish Bowl Experience During Data Team Implementation Visits
Purpose of the Fish Bowl Data Team Implementation Visits are designed to provide sustained, focused professional learning for our Data Teams and Administrators. The Implementation Visits take place during the year, in an authentic Data Team venue, as a means of providing our Data Teams with individualized feedback that promotes collaboration, builds capacity for teacher leaders, and fosters a culture of support between teams and administration.
Understanding the Fish Bowl The Fish Bowl allows observers of an actual, authentic Data Team meeting to be active listeners - making notes of best practices in collaboration and data discussion - and then, at the end, allows observers to offer positive, constructive feedback about what they have seen and heard during the session. The Fish Bowl consists of the Data Team conducting a meeting in real time with current data.
The observers are fellow teachers and Data Team Facilitators from other teams in the school who surround the outside of the Data Team. Administrators are an important component of a successful Fish Bowl, as well; their participation signals a culture of support and sets the schools expectations.
The Fish Bowl Members The Data Team you select to conduct the authentic data team meeting for the group does not necessarily have to be the best data team in the school. It can be; however, all teams benefit from the comments, impromptu training, and immediate feedback. The selected Data Team does need to be a Core Content Area.
Selecting the Fish Bowl Audience is Critical The Fish Bowl is intended to be surrounded by active listeners who record ideas and comments about the process while the Data Team conducts an authentic session. Successful Fish Bowl audiences include: 1) Data Team Facilitators Data Team Facilitators will be provided professional leave to attend the Fish Bowl, coded as District Initiated. 2) Positive, Supportive Teachers These can be individual teachers who have a planning block at the time of the Fish Bowl, or professional leave days can be used in order for an entire grade level/content area Data Team to observe another team all together. 3) Administrative Team It is expected that the Admin. Team is present during the Fish Bowl and actively participates in discussions and debriefing at the end of the Fish Bowl session. This provides the Data Team with immediate feedback and shows support for both the Team and the audience.
Preparing for the Fish Bowl Visit In preparation of the Fish Bowl visits, a conference call will be scheduled approximately 2 weeks prior to the visits with our Data Team consultants. The purpose of the call is to connect our Administrators with the consultants to discuss each schools ideas on what a successful day will look like at the end of a visit and to ask any questions of the consultants before they arrive. Principals will receive specific information about the timing of the conference call and how to access the call.
Please begin, now, talking with your teachers about the purpose of the Fish Bowl and what to expect. As teachers understand the expectations of Data Teams, and feel more comfortable sharing their Data Team experiences, we will build capacity in our teachers and we will continue to feel the strength of collaboration on behalf of our students.
If substitutes will be used to free up teachers to attend the Fish Bowl, professional leave slips will be coded as District Initiated.
Approximately 2 weeks before each schools visit, Sara Kearns office will contact schools for final logistics about where the Fish Bowl will be held, which Data Team will be spotlighted, and who will be the audience.
On the Day of the Fish Bowl Visit A schedule for visits has been sent to all Principals and APIs. Instructional Team members will arrive with the Data Team consultant and will be ready to join the audience at the location selected. The Fish Bowl should take approximately 1 hour to 1.5 hours (see schedule). Once the Data Team concludes and feedback is given, the Team and all observers will be dismissed back to their classrooms. The Administrative Team will debrief with the consultant immediately after the Fish Bowl for approximately 20 30 minutes. Please reserve a conference room. First, we must bear in mind that perfect coverage of any initiative is an illusion. It makes more sense to invest in small changes rst. Second, these small, incremental implementation strategies will often times lead to more sustainable results. If you have received Data Team training and have not yet begun the process, follow the ten steps listed below. You can jump start Data Teams in one content area focusing on just one standard. You deserve a short term win....so what are you waiting for? Data Teams and Short Term Wi ns: The Key to Ef fecti ve Implementation Many times after I deliver a Data Team seminar, a few attendees will approach me and claim that everythi ng I presented makes complete sense. They agree with the Power Standards approach for focused instruction and understand the differences between formative and summative assessments. They also tell me why Data Teams wont work in their school or district: You obviously have not met our students, that wont work with these teachers, and we dont have the capacity to even begin this are all too common refrains. ALWAYS FREE!! WWW.STEVEVENTURA.COM TAKE THE 10-DAY DATA TEAM CHALLENGE POWER STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE DATA TEAMS IMPLEMENTATION 1. Choose just ONE standard or important topic that will have the greatest impact on student achievement. 6. Administer the same assessment at the end of the instructional week. 2. Create a ve question Common Formative Assessment with your colleagues, assessing just that one standard. 7. Analyze the post assessment results with colleagues, using the same ve step Data Team process. 3. Administer the assessment even before you teach the content so you can determine what pre- requisite skills students already possess. 8. Based on post assessment results, provide a buffer week of instruction during week two. 4. Analyze the pre-assessment results with colleagues using the denitive ve-step Data Team process. Select instructional strategies based on prioritized needs of students. 9. During the buffer week, provide specic intervention and differentiation strategies for individual student needs. 5. Teach the important concepts and skills within the standard for one week. 10. Discuss with colleagues the benets of focused, targeted instruction and collaboration! "~- ~-- || - Elementary At the elementary level, Data Teams are usually grade level teams. However, if there is some departmentalization at the grade level, team members typically focus on the specic subject areas they teach or choose an interdisciplinary approach such as writing across the curriculum. In the development stage, Data Teams tend to limit their focus to one prioritized content area such as Reading, Writing, or Mathematics. As the Data Teams become more efcient in the process, they add other content areas. Special educators often participate in the Data Teams to lend their expertise in adaptations and accommodations while supporting students in demonstrating prociency in grade level priority standards. Instructional coaches participate in Data Teams meetings in order to collaborate with colleagues. Their collaboration includes supporting student work analysis, aiding the selection and delivery of instructional practices, and providing job-embedded professional development as needed. Reminder! Dont forget to visit: www.leadandlearn.com for additional Data Team resources. Middle School At the Middle School level, Data Teams tend to be centered around a specic content area with teams of teachers that work in that discipline collaborating on how to most effectively improve teaching and learning. This structure is most often seen in middle schools with multiple teachers per grade level in a single content area. Smaller schools with a single subject area teacher per grade level, or schools organized into smaller learning communities, will frequently establish interdisciplinary Data Teams. In these teams, teachers focus on the application of a power strategy such as non-ction writing in all subject areas or on particular students who are at risk and on what intervention strategies can be implemented for that child in all classes. If sufcient collaborative time exists, a mixed model with subject specic Data Team meetings is highly effective. Data Teams Definition Data Teams focus on building links between specic teaching and leadership practices and student achievement. The structure of the meetings provides for effective collaboration that builds understanding of the antecedents of excellence, or those specic actions that lead to the current results. It is not an exercise in number-crunching or evaluating teachers. The spirit of the process is one of continuous improvement and a no-fault reection on educational practice. Data Teams Implementation Process FROM THE EDITOR This information is designed to heighten awareness that gaps in academic achievement exist between groups of students, and to provide a forum to discuss steps and ideas for closing the achievement gap. Five Step Data Team Process 1. Collect and Chart Data 2. Identify Strengths and Obstacles 3. Set Goals 4. Select Instructional Strategies 5. Create Results Indicators Leadership and Learning Matrix Steve Ventura Professional Development Associate The Leadership and Learning Center www.leadandlearn.com sventura@leadandlearn.com 805.975.3853 Learning Low results, high understanding Leading High Results, high understanding Lucky High results, low understanding Losing Low results, low understanding
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1. Besciibe the puipose of the Bata Teams piocess. 2. Besciibe each of the S steps of the piocess. S. Which of the S steps is the easiest to caiiy out. Which one is the most uifficult. Why. 4. Besciibe the uocumentation that iesults fiom (oi is cieateu uuiing) BT meetings. S. Is theie a specific template iequiieu foi this uocumentation. If not, what shoulu the uocumentation look like. 6. Bow aie instiuctional stiategies selecteu anu shaieu between BT membeis. Data Team Implementation Visits School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties January 2014 Dave Nagel
TUESDAY Date Location Time Audience Session Focus Principal January 28 River Springs Elem 8:30 A - 9:45 A Data Team & DT Facilitators 9:45 A 10:15 A Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching-Fishbowl Melanie Cohen mhcohen@lexrich5.org January 28 Leaphart Elem 10:45 A 12:00 P Data Team & DT Facilitators 12:00 P 12:30 P Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching-Fishbowl Kelly Brown kcbrown@lexrich5.org
January 28
Lunch 12:30 P 2:00 P Lunch with Dr. Melton/Mr. Dean/Mr. Guliano January 28 Nursery Road Elem 2:45 P 4:00 P Full Faculty Meeting 4:00 P 4:30 P Debrief with Admin Team The 5 Steps for Data Teams Love Ligons lligons@lexrich5.org
WEDNESDAY Date Location Time Audience Session Focus Principal January 29 Chapin High 8:00 A 9:15 A Full Faculty Meeting 9:15 A 9:45 A Debrief with Admin Team The 5 Steps for Data Teams Akil Ross aross@lexrich5.org January 29 Irmo Middle 10:15 A 11:45 A Data Team & DT Facilitators 11:45 A 12:15 P Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching-Fishbowl Robert Jackson rsjackso@lexrich5.org
January 29
Lunch 12:15 P 1:15 P Lunch with Robert Jackson, Dr. Melton, Mr. Dean, Mr. Guliano @ IMS [12:30 1:00 (DN); 1:00 2:00 (DN & SV); 2:00 3:00 (SV)] January 29 Irmo Elem 1:30 P 2:45 P Data Team & DT Facilitators 2:45 P 3:00 P Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching-Fishbowl Shannon McAlister smcalist@lexrich5.org
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Data Team Implementation Visits School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties February 2014 Dave Nagel
FRIDAY Date Location Time Audience Session Focus Principal February 7 Irmo High 8:00 A 9:30 A Data Team & DT Facilitators 9:30 A 9:50 A Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching-Fishbowl David Riegel driegel@lexrich5.org February 7 Irmo Middle 10:00 A 11:00 A Data Team & DT Facilitators No Debrief with Admin Team (See Jan. 29) Data Team Coaching-Fishbowl Robert Jackson rsjackso@lexrich5.org February 7 The Center 11:30 A 12:20 P Data Team & DT Facilitators 12:20 P 12:45 P Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching-Fishbowl Bob Couch jcouch@lexrich5.org
February 7
Lunch 12:45 P 1:45 P @ Spring Hill HS February 7 Dutch Fork High 2:00 P 3:15 P Data Team & DT Facilitators 3:15 P 3:45 P Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching-Fishbowl Greg Owings gowings@lexrich5.org
Revised November 21, 2013
Data Team Implementation Visits School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties April 2014 Dave Nagel
TUESDAY Date Location Time Audience Session Focus Principal April 29 Irmo High 8:00 A 9:30 A Data Team & DT Facilitators 9:30 A 10:00 A Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching-Fishbowl David Riegel driegel@lexrich5.org April 29 H. E. Corley Elem 10:30 A 12:00 P Data Team & DT Facilitators 12:00 P 12:30 P Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching-Fishbowl Judy Franchini jfranchi@lexrich5.org
April 29
Lunch 12:45 P 2:15 P April 29 Cross Roads Middle 2:45 P 4:00 P Full Faculty Meeting 4:00 P 4:30 P Debrief with Admin Team The 5 Steps for Data Teams Jesse Hutchinson jhutchin@lexrich5.org
WEDNESDAY Date Location Time Audience Session Focus Principal April 30 Spring Hill High 8:00 A 9:15 A Data Team & DT Facilitators 9:15 A 9:45 A Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching- Fishbowl Michael Lofton melofton@lexrich5.org April 30 Nursery Road Elem 10:15 A 11:45 A Data Team & DT Facilitators 11:45 A 12:15 P Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching- Fishbowl Love Ligons lligons@lexrich5.org
April 30
Lunch 12:15 P 1:30 P April 30 Leaphart Elem 1:45 P 3:00 P Data Team & DT Facilitators 3:00 P 3:15 P Debrief with Admin Team Data Team Coaching- Fishbowl Kelly Brown kcbrown@lexrich5.org