INSIGHTS ON EFFECTIVE DATA USE

Helpful resources for district administrators

8 Essential Questions to Ask About Any Metric

Analyzing your metrics data can be daunting, especially the first couple of times. One great way to start is by asking questions. Questions help you uncover the stories your data is telling and form hypotheses about how to drive change.

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Grouping for Good: Using Student Intervention Groups to Improve Outcomes

Help your teams move more quickly from data toward action to meet your strategic goals. This tool supports school teams working to identify and change trajectories for students who need additional support.

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Beyond College Applications: Using GPA data to Help Students and Schools

In addition to summarizing a student’s achievement levels for college admissions, GPA data can also help you spot and support struggling students and allow administrators and educators to monitor the progress of schools and subgroups.

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Data Wins from Day One: A Back-to-School Success Plan for Data Leaders

Back-to-school is a great time to start the year off on the right foot when it comes to data. Learn four key ways district data leaders can lay the groundwork now for effective use of data throughout the school year.

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5 Features of an Effective District Performance Management System

Learn how to build a performance management system that supports progress toward organizational goals by aligning structures, processes, and routines, and allowing organizations to continuously monitor the connection between the work they do and the outcomes they seek.

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Freshman Success Research, Data, and Practice: Lessons from Chicago

Hear about the research, data, and practices in the Chicago Public Schools that fueled a 30 percentage point increase in freshman on-track rates over the course of a decade.

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Actionable Approaches to College and Career Readiness

Explore new research on college and career readiness, and get actionable steps schools and districts can take to provide equitable supports for underserved students of color and low-income students.

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School Every Day: Using Chronic Absence Data to Reduce Absences

Learn how data can be leveraged for chronic absence at the district, school, and student level, and look at best practices and common pitfalls of interventions.

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