Unleashing the Power of Collaborative Inquiry:
A Professional Development Program for Data Coaches
** This course has been cancelled but will be offered again in 2010.
A Course for Veteran Teachers from Research for Better Teaching, Acton MA
Course Description
Learn about a structured process of collaborative inquiry that is increasing professional community, effective uses of data, and student achievement in schools across the country. The approach features the development of Data Coaches, school and district leaders who guide data teams through a process of (1) building a foundation, (2) identifying a student learning problem, (3) verifying causes of student learning problems, (4) generating and monitoring solutions, and (5) achieving results. Through this program, Data Coaches learn how to lead a process of collaborative inquiry with school-based data teams and to influence the culture of schools to be one in which data are used continuously, collaboratively, and effectively to improve teaching and learning. The program is based on the resource, A Data Coach’s Guide to Improving Learning for All Students: Unleashing the Power of Collaborative Inquiry (Corwin Press, 2008), by Nancy Love, Katherine E. Stiles, Susan Mundry, and Kathryn DiRanna.
Course Outcomes
Data Coaches will gain essential skills and knowledge in four areas:
- Data literacy: understand, accurately interpret, and respond appropriately to multiple
data sources, including formative and summative student learning assessments, student
work, and quantitative and quantitative and qualitative data related to programs,
practices, and policies.
- Facilitation: facilitate data-driven dialogue and lead data teams through short cycles of
planning, implementing, and monitoring instructional improvement.
- Leadership for sustainability: communicate vision, build broad support, and establish
systems to sustain a culture of continuous improvement.
- Cultural proficiency: respond to data by expanding opportunities to learn to diverse
students; monitor the data process to assure that responses “do no harm” to any student
groups.
Session Information
June 15-18, 2009, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM.
Location: Bishop O'Dowd High School, 9500 Stearns Ave, Oakland, CA, 94605.
Contact: Please contact Paul Molinelli if you have any registration or payment questions.
Instructors: Deborah Reed & Mary Ann Haley
Course Fees
$850 per person, payable to "Research for Better Teaching." Send check to:
Research for Better Teaching
Attn: Carole Fiorentino
One Acton Place
Acton, Massachusetts 01720.
If you are paying with Title IIA Funds, RBT will contract with your local school district.
Graduate Credit
Participants who complete all course requirements will receive a certificate of completion. They may pay an additional $200 to receive three (3) graduate credits from Salem State College (Mass.). No partial course credit will be granted for meeting only a portion of the course requirements.