Data Team Summary

Emily Reese
White Oak Elementary School

A. School Vision:

1. Paste your school’s mission and vision into this section.

WHITE OAK MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the staff of White Oak Elementary is to facilitate a safe and supportive environment where
excellence in learning for all children results in students who are thinkers, learners, and leaders.

WHITE OAK BELIEF STATEMENT

 The White Oak School Community believes:

 Student learning is the primary focus for the school.

 Decisions are made based on what’s best for student learning.
 Students learn in different ways and should be provided with a variety of instructional approaches to
support their learning.
 Students learn best when they are actively engaged in the learning process.
 Exceptional students (e.g., special education, limited English proficiency, and gifted, etc.) require
special services and resources.
 A safe and physically comfortable environment promotes student learning.
 Teachers, administrators, parents, and the community share the responsibility for advancing the school's
mission.
 The commitment to continuous improvement is imperative if our school is going to enable students to
become confident, self-directed, lifelong learners.

2. How would you change or update your school’s vision.

I would not change or update my school’s vision. I feel that the administration carefully crafted the
mission and belief statements to reflect the teachers, students and stakeholders own personal beliefs about
education and learning. All stakeholders share a responsibility to engage in student academic achievement
and both the mission and belief statements cover all aspects of learning and support for student learning.

3. Describe how your school’s data team can use data to measure meaningful progress toward realization of
your school’s vision.

At White Oak Elementary School, data will be collected and used to measure meaningful progress towards
the school’s vision. Instruction practices and student achievement goals will be impacted based on decisions
by the Data Team. All instructional decisions should be driven from and should support the realization of
the school’s vision. To measure meaningful progress toward the realization of my school’s vision, the data
team should analyze data across grade levels and content areas.
B. Purpose of the Data Team:

The purpose of the Data Team would be to investigate the current status of student learning and
instructional practices and determine areas of growth to improve student learning. Data collected will be
shared with the staff during monthly faculty meetings and weekly content area meetings. The Data Team
will track student achievement on district assigned common assessments to demonstrate growth in student
achievement. Members will share responsibilities by taking on one of the many Data Team roles.

C. Data Team Formation, Rationale & School Structures:

Data Teams will be introduced during pre-planning to the faculty. Individuals are recommended for roles
within the team. Based on familiarity and comfort level, Data Team members will take on a role such as
facilitator, recorder, materials manager, dialogue monitor, and timekeeper. These roles will help the team
stay organized and collaborate effectively. Participants from each grade level will be encouraged to join, as
well as support staff. Data Teams will work towards specific goals that are beneficial for both faculty and
students.

D. Decision-Making Authority:

Data teams would have some authority to make decisions needed to facilitate change within classrooms that
leads to positive learning outcomes. Data teams will provide data to support implementation/elimination of
teaching and learning strategies. Administration would facilitate a discussion with the entire data team after
reviewing data collected to determine if a change is truly needed. A majority consensus must be achieved before
implementing any changes the Data Team recommends.
E. Outreach Plan – Refer to Table 2.1, p. 31, Data Coach’s Guide
Audience
District Administrators
School Administrators
School Faculty
Department Chairs
Instructional
Leaders/Specialists
Potential Data Team Members
School Board Members
School Improvement Team
How will you engage Their role in sustaining
them? collaborative inquiry
Meet with district
District administration will be
administration to ask for
able to share the vision to all
support in implementing the
district stakeholders. District
Using Data Process. Ask for
administration will also be able
support and assistance in
to help obtain resources as
developing ways to assess the
needed for teachers.
progress of the data process.
School administrators will be
able to share the vision to all
Meet with the Principal and
stakeholders. School
Assistant Principals to develop
administration will advocate
a local school plan. Plan
for the Data team by providing
together possible Data Team
clear communication to all
members and how to best
parties involved. They will
implement the UDP to align
allocate data resources as
with current data systems.
needed and participate in the
UDP.
Meet with school faculty to
present information on the School faculty will participate
Using Data Process. Encourage on Data Teams. The teams will
faculty involvement in the data use data to enhance teaching
processes. Provide Data Team strategies and to stay up to date
updates monthly to school on school wide data.
faculty.
Meet with Department chairs to
see if they need more Actively participate as a
information about the data member of the Data Team.
process.
Instructional leaders/specialists
will model data protocols for
the Data Team. Instructional
Meet with instructional
leaders/specialists will
leaders/specialists to address
encourage collaboration among
any concerns.
faculty members, as well as
advocate for the Data Team as
needed.
Prepare a presentation to share
goals and objectives of the
Essential in order to have a
Data Team. Meet with faculty
successful Data Team.
to address benefits of the Data
Team.
Meet with School Board
Provide support for the Data
members to explain the purpose
Team.
and goals of the Data Team.
Collaborate with the School Align efforts with the Data
 Improvement Team to
determine how the Data Team Team.
can support initiatives.
Utilize the school website to
present information to parents.
Participate in data collection as
Parents The Data Team will provide
needed.
regular updates on their
findings.
Data Coordinators can help
Meet with coordinators to
provide training and support
determine the best way to
Data or Assessment for the Data Team. Data or
gather and collect data based
Coordinators Assessment Coordinators can
on new and current data
also support the direction and
protocols.
vision of the Data Coach.
Evaluation Criterion