Data Driven Dialogue: Integrating T3 Data into the School Improvement Planning Process: Using the Data-driven Dialog with T3 Data Sets

Data Driven Dialogue: Integrating T3 Data into the School Improvement Planning Process

Integrating T3 Data into the School Improvement Planning Process

Overview

Using the Data-driven Dialog with T3 Data Sets

Now that you are familiar with the data needed for online testing readiness, the Data-driven dialog Protocol used in school improvement planning will be helpful.

This protocol builds awareness and understanding of the participant’s viewpoints, beliefs, and assumptions about data while suspending judgments. All participants have equal voice. The phases of data-driven dialogue assist groups in making shared meaning of data. The dialogue tool helps to replace hunches and feelings with data-based facts, examine patterns and trends of performance indicators, and generate “root-cause” discussions that move from identifying symptoms to possible causes for student performance.

The protocol involves four phases as addressed in the next four pages.