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Extraordinary Commitment #5: Data Informed Instruction

On Friday afternoons, our school transforms into the Carroll Graduate School of Education. Although we are not technically a graduate school, our faculty engage in advanced professional development in a program we call "Everyone at One." This fall the faculty is working with Dr. Isabel Phillips from Massachusetts General Hospital on the topic of "Data Informed Instruction." Students come to Carroll with an enormous amount of psycho-educational testing, Carroll performs annual assessments of each child, and teachers ask children to take tests, write papers, and present information. What is a teacher supposed to do with all this information? "Data Informed Instruction" teaches us that all of these assessments should help us design instruction more effectively. The faculty will work with Dr. Phillips on several topics including: meaningful student file reading, test score analysis, student record reviews, designing teaching based on data, intelligence testing, and conducting case conferences on students.

 
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