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Data-Driven Inquiry Improves Teaching and Student Results 

School year: 
SY2009-2010
Source: 
Boston Plan for Excellence
Description: 

Preliminary analyses of 2010 MCAS scores and teacher survey data suggest that BPE's approach to data-driven inquiry (last year called AI2) is helping Boston Public Schools teachers and leaders use data to improve student results. The median Student Growth Percentile (SGP) of several participating middle schools rose by more than 20 points for seventh-grade math and by almost 10 points in English language arts (ELA). Two participating high schools grew their median SGPs by 20 and 25.5 points in math, and three high schools grew by 15, 8, and 7 points in ELA. These growth rates far exceed the district's SGP average. For more details, download additional charts.

application/pdf iconBPEsInquiryImprovesResults.pdf

Focus: Accelerating Improvement through Inquiry 

Source: 
Boston Plan for Excellence
Description: 

The Focus newsletter provides on-the-ground examples of promising practices at work in Boston's schools. In this issue, teachers and administrators from three schools--Brook Farm Academy, the Rogers Middle School, and the McCormack Middle School--share how they have used student performance data to drive improvements in student outcomes.

application/pdf iconFocusSept2010.pdf

Are You On Track? 

Subtitle: 
Graduation Progress Tracker (Annotated)
School year: 
SY2010-2011
Source: 
Boston Plan for Excellence and Boston Public Schools
Description: 

This annotated version of the graduation progress tracker helps high school students understand how to use their own progress data to get on track for graduation and success in college. The document is intended as a poster (20 x 24) and can also be printed on letter-sized paper.

A sample tracker is also available for dowload.

application/pdf iconAnnotatedTrackerPoster.pdf

Student Graduation Progress Tracker 

Source: 
Boston Plan for Excellence and Boston Public Schools
Description: 

The graduation progress tracker, to be rolled out to all Boston high schools in 2010, provides each student with a clear picture of his progress toward meeting high school graduation and college admissions requirements.

application/pdf iconGradTrackerSample8-10.pdf

Making Data Public 

Subtitle: 
Boston Public Schools Leadership Conference
Source: 
Boston Plan for Excellence
Description: 

This presentation to Boston school leaders introduces effective ways that schools can make data public to further their student performance goals. Includes photo examples from several schools. 

application/vnd.ms-powerpoint iconMakingDataPublicPD.ppt

Evaluation of Students Achieve More (SAM-Boston) 

Subtitle: 
Final Report of Findings
School year: 
SY2008-2009
Source: 
UMass Donahue Institute
Description: 

Final report of a two-year pilot of the SAM-Boston approach to data-driven inquiry and leadership development in a group of Boston public schools. Boston's current approach to inquiry draws on the lessons from SAM-Boston.

application/pdf iconSAMFinalReportDec09.pdf

Getting On Track for Success 

Source: 
Boston Plan for Excellence
Description: 

This special report describes the biggest challenge facing Boston's schools: the large percentage of students who are off-track to successfully completing high school. A new approach, data-informed inquiry, is helping schools to track student performance and implement targeted interventions that get more students on track for success.

application/pdf iconGettingOnTrack.pdf

Getting Familiar with the CLI 

Source: 
Boston Plan for Excellence
Description: 

This guide walks school-based staff through the features of the Composite Learning Index, samples questions to ask of the data, and Excel tips to get the most from the data.

application/pdf iconGettingFamiliarCLI.pdf

Getting Small to Get Big Results 

Subtitle: 
An Introduction to Data-Driven Inquiry
Source: 
Boston Plan for Excellence
Description: 

Provides an overview of the data-driven inquiry cycle and how it can be used to focus existing resources on getting more students to be successful.

application/pdf iconInquiryGuide.pdf

Composite Learning Index Sample 

Subtitle: 
What It Looks Like
School year: 
SY2007-2008
Source: 
Boston Plan for Excellence
Description: 

Sample spreadsheet with performance indicators and other factors that go into creating a single risk indicator for each student that is predictive of a student's likelihood of dropping out in the absence of interventions.

application/vnd.ms-excel iconCLIwebsample.xls