Sherlock

This week we had someone from one of the schools in North Carolina come by and teach us about data collection. She was nice enough and pretty laid back I did learn about the different data that we will collect or if we don’t someone else will, and that's probably not a good thing. This all has to do with the standard that states “the work of the teacher results in acceptable, measurable progress for students based on established performance expectations using appropriate data to demonstrate growth.” I learned more about just how much almost anything and everything can come back and bite us in the butt if we are not always on our toes. I’ve learned what kind of data we will need to collect and what they say, I’ve learned the different forms of assessments, but I have yet to learn what I’m supposed to do with this. Well you just make changes and implement more effective policies to increase student understanding. Well that's great how am I supposed to do that Sherlock? It's great to have all this data at your fingertips but it doesn’t do anyone any good if we don’t know what to do with it.