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Data dialogue

Focused conversations put evidence to work in the classroom

By Chris Bryan and Cindy Harrison
Categories: Coaching, Data
October 2008
As teachers and leaders are well aware, schools and districts across the country have invested enormous amounts of money and energy in creating data management systems so that teachers can access information about their students’ performance. With these systems in place, the focus now needs to move to the structures and allocation of time that will allow teachers to engage in data conversations about student achievement and its implications for classroom planning and instruction. Such time and structures will ensure that the necessary conditions are in place for data to be used to impact student achievement. Following and in the table on p. 16, we summarize a framework that outlines a variety of types of data conversations. For each type of data conversation, we define

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Chris Bryan
Senior Consultant and Professional Development Director | + posts

Chris Bryan is a senior consultant with Learning Forward. She is also the professional development director for the organization One to One Women Coaching Women. Bryan draws on deep instructional experience to serve her clients and learning partners—from classroom teacher, learning specialist, mentor, and staff developer, to instructional coach and coach of coaches. Currently, she coaches school executives, school-based coaches, and other leaders of organizations.

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