But What Do You Do with the Data
Jan Matthews janamelia@janamelia.com Matthews is an educational consultant with Amelia Educational Consulting Inc. and a former instructional lead teacher. Susan Trimble is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Georgia Southern University. Anne Gay is an instructional lead teacher for Camden County (GA) Schools and an adjunct professor of mathematics at Armstrong Atlantic State University. But What Do You Do With the Data?
IMPLEMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES AND DATA TEAMS RELATING TO THE STUDENT ACHEIVEMENT GAP
The study was completed to find if there was a significant difference in student achievement after professional learning communities (PLC’s) and data teams were implemented in a title district. A title district is one where the free and reduced lunch rate shows a high poverty level. PLC’s, along with the Data Teams process are designed to enhance communication, teach educators to use data effectively to guide classroom instruction, and to meet students on an individual level to increase achievement. Research shows that effective use of data to guide intervention strategies support growth in student achievement. Findings of this study show that there is a significant difference in the way students performed on state assessments in pre data-teams and post data-teams implementation years. The study focuses on the teacher antecedents, including intervention and collaboration strategies.
Good elementary education
Abstract The aim of this study is to identify good elementary education standards that would contribute to the elimination of inequalities in the implementations regarding the utilization -and making it utilized- of the right to elemetary education. Being a descriptive one, this study attempted to identify the definitions and explanations of the right to education in universal documents by a review of literature. The study then attempted to explain the drawbacks concerning the protection and the utilization of the right to education. The study proposes some standards such as accessibility, content, operation so as to eliminate the obstacles hindering the utilization of the right to elementary education.