Got Data? Now What?: Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry

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Pub. Date: 2012-02-01
Publisher(s): Solution Tree
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Summary

Test, state, or provincial scores are too far from the local classroom and individual learners to elicit powerful conversations about practice. Many schools limit their collaborative conversations to these high-stakes tests due to external pressure for growth. Got Data? Now What? Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry offers useful tools and strategies to help data teams focus their goals and create the collaborative work necessary to successfully interpret and use data in their schools to ensure learning for all. This book explores three challenges that school teams face¿(1) committee without community, (2) time without tools, and (3) data without deliberation. Group members need to identify as a member of a group, be provided with efficient time use, and be involved in discussions about school data. Authors Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman offer strategies and tools to confront these challenges and turn struggling committees into powerful communities of learners. Each chapter ends with an applicable data story that expounds on the chapter topic and showcases a team confronting a data dilemma. Using the authors¿ techniques for successful, collaborative data work, teams will be able to eliminate these hurdles and efficiently use data to enhance learning.

Table of Contents

About the Authorsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
The Promises and Problems of Collaborative Culturesp. 2
What You'll Find in This Bookp. 3
The Road to Learningp. 5
Developing Cultures of Collaborative Inquiryp. 7
Shifting Values, Shifting Culturesp. 7
Defining, Developing, and Sustaining High-Performing Culturesp. 10
Describing the Seven Qualities of High-Performing Groupsp. 10
Drawing on Feedbackp. 15
Exercise Your Learningp. 19
Extend Your Learningp. 20
Scaled Group Inventoryp. 21
Self-Assessment Inventoryp. 22
Introducing the Collaborative Learning Cyclep. 25
Activating and Engaging: Surfacing Experiences and Expectationsp. 26
Exploring and Discovering: Analyzing the Datap. 29
Organizing and Integrating: Generating Theoryp. 33
Exercise Your Learningp. 38
Extend Your Learningp. 38
Reflecting on Your Experiencep. 39
Avoiding Reality Warsp. 41
Pursuing Meaningful Datap. 41
Searching for Root Causesp. 43
Pursuing Worthy Problemsp. 45
Identifying Causal Theoriesp. 46
Exercise Your Learningp. 49
Extend Your Learningp. 49
Choosing Which Data to Collectp. 51
Knowing the Data Fundamentalsp. 53
Two Types of Data: Qualitative and Quantitativep. 54
Triangulation and Disaggregationp. 58
Dimensions of Datap. 60
Visually Effective Data Displaysp. 65
Exercise Your Learningp. 69
Extend Your Learningp. 70
Information Altitudes Exercisep. 71
Types of Survey Questionsp. 72
Developing High-Performing Groupsp. 75
Group Member Knowledge and Skillp. 75
Skills for Talking About Datap. 80
Methods for Assessing Growthp. 85
Exercise Your Learningp. 87
Extend Your Learningp. 87
Four Dynamical Tensions: Assessing Your Groups Membershipp. 88
Four Dynamical Tensions: Assessing Your Leadershipp. 89
Four Dynamical Tensions: Assessing Your Groupp. 90
Stages of Group Developmentp. 91
Group Work Structuresp. 92
Moving From Dialogue to Discussion to Decision Makingp. 95
Three Constraints to Productive Discoursep. 96
The Tools for Talkingp. 98
Dialogue: Divergent Discourse for Opening Choicep. 100
Discussion: Convergent Discourse for Clarifying Prioritiesp. 102
Decision Making: Convergent Discourse on Choicep. 103
Exercise Your Learningp. 109
Extend Your Learningp. 110
Spend-a-Buckp. 111
Evolving Decisions Into Actionsp. 113
Common Barriers to Effective Planningp. 113
Intervention Planning Template: A Graphic Planning Toolp. 115
Planning as a Learning Process, and Learning as a Planning Processp. 119
Exercise Your Learningp. 121
Extend Your Learningp. 121
Intervention Planning Templatep. 123
References and Resourcesp. 125
Indexp. 131
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