Data-Driven

Collaboration:
Leveraging Teams to
Get Results
2017 Nevada Mega Conference
Lissa Pijanowski, Ed.D.
Senior Fellow
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Lissa Pijanowski, Ed.D.
Senior Fellow, ICLE
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Twitter: @lpijanowski
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Dr. Lissa Pijanowski is passionate about supporting teachers and leaders in creating
compelling learning environments that reflect high expectations, promote student
engagement, and produce results. Lissas work with the International Center for
Leadership in Education integrates her years of school improvement experience and
curriculum leadership in standards-based education.

Lissa has served as a public school educator for over 25 years and prior to joining ICLE
served as the Associate Superintendent of Academics and Accountability for Forsyth
County Schools. Her team was responsible for curriculum, instruction, assessment,
academic support programs, professional learning, and workforce development. The
district leveraged Rigorous Curriculum Design and Data Teams as essential
components for implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

Prior to working in Forsyth County Schools, Lissa served as the Director of School
Improvement at the Georgia Department of Education. At the GDOE, Lissa led regional
school improvement teams to reduce the number of Needs Improvement Schools in
Georgia through intense training on data analysis, performance standards, and focused
improvement planning.

Through a commitment to her own professional development as well as her extensive

professional learning work with adults, Lissa is committed to delivering engaging,
practical, professional development experiences which result in immediate application
to student learning. Lissa has presented at numerous national and state educational
conferences and is a published author. Publications include articles in Educational
Leadership and the Journal of Staff Development. Additionally, she has contributed to
Center publications Prioritizing the Common Core State Standards and Engaged
Instruction: Thriving Classrooms in the Age of the Common Core. She holds a
Doctorate of Education with a concentration in Organizational Leadership and Change,
a Masters in Educational Leadership, and a Bachelor of Science in Education.

Although her work keeps her busy, Lissas family is her priority. She is married and has
three children. She enjoys supporting her kids with their sports and musical interests
while making time to volunteer in schools, garden, and spend time outdoors with her
husband.

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Data Teams Defined

Four Critical Questions that Guide a PLC

1) What are students supposed to know and be able to do?

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2) How do we know when our students have learned?
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3) How do we respond when students havent learned?
_________________________________________
4) How do we respond when students already know the
content?
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We are a PLC we engage in the Data Teams Process!

Data Teams Defined

Data Teams use common priority standards, generate common formative
assessments, and use common scoring guides to monitor and analyze
student performance.

Data Teams are small, grade-level, department, course, or content teams

that examine work generated from a common formative assessment in order
to drive instruction and improve professional practice.

Data Teams have scheduled, collaborative, structured meetings that

concentrate on the effectiveness of teaching and learning.

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The Data Teams Process

Monitor &
Evaluate
Results

Daggett System
Traditional Frameworks For Instructional Effectiveness

Deliver Instruction Facilitate Learning

Vision Set by Top Leaders Set Vision With Wide contributions

Define Vision in terms of Whole Student

Define Vision in Few Academic Measures
Needs

Flexible Structures Support Student

Rigid Structures Support Adult Needs
Needs

Teachers as Objects of Change Teachers as Agents of Change

Deliver Instruction Facilitate Learning

Create New Practices to Meet Student

Replicate Practices With Fidelity
Needs

Look For Evidence of Good Teaching Look for Evidence of Good Learning

Standardized Procedures Shared Best Practices

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High-Performing Schools
How is your school doing? Rate your school
1-3 (1 = low, 3 = high)
_____ Use data well and ongoing

_____ Limit goals and strategies FOCUS

_____ Develop shared instructional practices

_____ Implement deeply

_____ Monitor, provide feedback, support

_____ Create a supportive learning environment

McNulty and Besser, 2011

1. Are your current

results positive
or do they need
improvement?

2. Do you know
the causes
(adult actions)
of your results?

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Prioritizing and Unwrapping

Priority Standards
Priority Standards are those standards that, once mastered, give a student the ability to
use reasoning and thinking skills to learn and understand other curriculum objectives.

Criteria:

1. Readiness: What do my students need for the next level of learning? (R)

2. Endurance: What concepts and skills will last over time? (E)

3. Leverage: Which standards have crossover application to other areas? (L)

4. External Exams: Which standards are assessed on national or state tests? (T)

Which standards is a Priority Standard?

_______ RL 4.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text;
summarize the text.

_______ RL 4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing
on specific details in the text.

Unwrapping the Priority Standards to Ramp Up Rigor:

Circle the SKILLS that students need to be able to do (verbs). Underline the CONCEPTS that
students need to know (nouns/noun phrases).

MCC4.MD.2 Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of
time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple
fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger
unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as
number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.

Skills Concepts Blooms

DOK Ceiling

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Formative Assessment
Please rank the effect on student achievement
1-6 (1 being the highest)
_____ Homework

_____ Feedback

_____ Retention

_____ Parental Involvement

_____ Student Expectations and Goal Setting

_____ Formative Evaluations

Hattie, 2009 How do your students answer the

following FEEDBACK questions?
Where am I going?
learning outcome
Where am I now?
self assessment
What do I need to learn next?
progression

Data Team Assessments:

1. Know Your Purpose

2. Identify DOK Ceiling
3. Choose the Right Type of Item

In order to . . .
Gain evidence of student learning and
make accurate inferences to guide
next steps.

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Data Team Cycle

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
30 1 2 3 4
DT Meeting
Unit 1: Buffer Unit 2: Pre- 5 Steps
Week Assessment Unit 2

7 8 9 10 11
Unit 2 Begins DT Meeting
Monitoring

14 15 16 17 18
DT Meeting
Short-Cycle 5-Steps
Mid-Unit- Unit 2
Assessment

21 22 23 24 25
Unit 2 Post DT Meeting Unit 2: Buffer
Assessment 5 Steps Week Begins
Unit 2

28 29 30 31 1
Unit 3: Pre- DT Meeting
Assessment 5 Steps Unit 3 Begins
Unit 2: Buffer Unit 3
Week

PRE MID POST

Formative Formative Formative

MID MID POST

Formative Formative Formative

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Step 1: Collect and Chart Data

Data Team:

Date of Meeting:

Assessment:

Higher
Higher
# Close
% Close

Teacher
Students

Proficient

# Students
Likely to Be
Intervention

Be Proficient
Be Proficient

# Proficient or
# Intervention

% Proficient or
Students Close
% Intervention

# Far and Likely to

Students Close and

% Far and Likely to

Dave, Greta, Meena,
Able 25 7 28% 11 44% Ona, Paul, Rick, Sara, 4 16% Amy, Carol, Qita, Uma 3 12% Frank, Ima, Ned
Tom, Weena, Xuan, Yi

Dana, Gerry, Ike, Mary, Fran, Julie, Kelly, Pete,

Baker 25 6 24% 6 24% 4 16% Andy, Neal, Orina, Willie 9 36%
Susy, Bill Qi, Ron, Unka, Van, Aria

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Bob, Iris, Nate, Orrie, Arnie, Erica, Fred, Kerry,
Charlie 25 8 32% 6 24% 8 32% 3 12% Cara, John, Will
Sally, Tony Pat, Ronnie, Andy, Vern

Ariel, Ella, Harold,

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Bob C., Carrie, Gretchen, Deke, Billy, Sarah, Vale,
Delta 25 6 24% 6 24% 5 20% 8 32% Jimmy, Luca, Mira, Ollie,

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Zeke
Andrew, Eric S., Mike,
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Echo 25 8 32% 9 36% 5 20% 3 12% Callie, Fred D., Ginger
Ronnie, Billy, Cassie, Torrie, Will T.
Jake J.

Eric, John, Lawrence, Andy, Dana, Iris, Peter, Gertrude, Norbert, Ollie,
Foxtrot 25 7 28% 7 28% 7 28% 4 16%
Mira, Sarah, Fred, David Billy, Thomas, Walter Roger
Data Teams from Start to Finish

TEAM 150 42 28% 45 30% 33 22% 30 20%

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Data Teams from Start to Finish

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Data Teams from Start to Finish

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Data Team Roles

Data Team Leader / Data Wall Curator Recorder
Facilitator

Time Keeper Focus Monitor Engaged Participant

Norms for Our Work:

Collaborative
Teams
Elements of Effective

Shared Inquiry
Collaboration

Shared Beliefs

Continuous
Improvement
Commitment
to Results

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Framework for Implementation

Leadership Organization

Implementation

Collaboration Data Use

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Creating a Quad D Culture
TLT Top
Teacher Leadership Down
Teams/PLCs
Support
Bubble (Teaching)
Up Ideas

Quad D
Culture
BLT DLT
Building District Leadership
Leadership Teams Teams
! ! (Instructional (Organizational
Leadership) Leadership)
Weed the Garden!

WEED
!Consider the two essential
questions of the
THE GARDEN!
implementation audit: Are
we really using it? And is
there strong evidence that
it is directly related to
1) Are we really
improving student
using it? performance?

Consider the professional

learning initiatives in place
1) Do we have in your school system,
evidence ofassessing the degree of
implementation and the
impact on impact on student
achievement.
students?

Write the names of your initiatives in the appropriate quadrants of the following
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Create Your Action

Action Plan
Plan
Data Teams Implementation Action Plan
!
! Our Strategy! Date to be Person(s) Desired
completed! Responsible! Outcome!
Communicate
Expectations!
!
!
Form Data Teams!
!

!
Appoint Data
Team Leader!
!
!
Schedule Data
Team Leader /
Administrator
Meetings!
Create
Assessment /
Meeting Calendar
!
Create a system
for posting Data
Team charts and
graphs!
Create Internal
Communication
System!
!
Create External
Communication
! ! Systems!
!

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Notes, Ideas, Resources, etc.

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