District Data and Capacity Building

These slide images are taken from a presentation that I created for the Board of Education in spring 2018. Executive leadership shared the data and information in this presentation with school leaders, who shared the data with school staff. 

I decided to include growth data–here represented by mean conditional growth index–in response to a report on the Illinois State Board of Education’s Technical Advisory Council’s April recommendation that Illinois include shifts in student growth indices as part of the new school report card. Including MAP conditional growth index scores was first step in the ongoing capacity-building I continue to facilitate with district staff regarding how testing outcomes relate to school accountability.

This first set of slides establish the context of the problem so stakeholders can understand why past accountability measurements were inadequate.
This slide included a video from NWEA that explains how national conditional growth percentiles are calculated.
This title slide switches focus from capacity-building to data analysis.
The blocks are present on this image to obscure the name of the district and schools. The growth percentile shifts represent school mean growth percentile.
Data from state accountability subgroups was included.
These slides shift focus from growth to proficiency. The information on these slides represents a shift to a more elegant and insightful process for measuring school proficiency shifts.
This chart shows how reading proficiency stayed stagnant during 2016-2017 but increased from fall to spring in 2017-2018.
Data in the presentation also drew attention to areas of inequity. Notice the proficiency gap that persists between African-American students and their (mostly Hispanic) peers. This slide opened a discussion of equity in education.

Published by FaithSmith

I am a passionate educator who believes that technology can transform classrooms into places where education is more targeted, personal, and engaging. I am a mother of spoiled identical twin girls, and I love to spend time playing with them. We visit zoos, museums, and theme parks almost every weekend during the summer. It's a great time.

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