presentation at the CASE conference

1. Maximizing Student
Achievement Data for Change
38th Annual CASE Conference
August 2, 2007

2. joe

3. some data about
joe…

6. Married with 1
child

19. identity

25. Make the right thing easy to
do and the wrong thing hard
to do

26. Have a Goal in Mind

27. Flatten the Learning
Curve

28. Make Meaning

30. Preface

31. confession

32. I Data

33. I Data

35. circa 1999

36. Adams 14 (1999)
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Gr3 Reading Gr4 Reading Gr4 Writing Gr7 Reading Gr7 Writing

37. 70
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40. 5th grade

41. 5th grade
6th grade
4th grade

47. truth

48. JESUS
Heavenly Evangelist
8–2 BC/BCE to 29–36 AD/CE

49. Unnamed Minister
Religious Evangelist
ca. 1991-Present

50. Evangelism is
Selling the Dream
Guy Kawasaki
Apple Computer Evangelist
1983-1987

51. Data Prison

53. Image: boxes of (unopened reports)

58. Image: boxes of (unopened reports)

59. setting

60. Adams County
School District 14

61. Where is
Commerce City,
Colorado?

67. 78% of students are Hispanic

68. 22% of students are White (or other)

70. 77% of students are
eligible for free or
reduced lunch

72. 50% of students are
English Language
Learners

74. 41% Mobility Rate

76. 26% Teacher
turnover rate

78. 43% Teachers in first
three years

79. Mobile and diverse students with
inexperienced teachers

80. idea teachers
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81. Chapter 1:
Brian

91. lesson 1:
have a goal and
identify your customer

92. Chapter 2:
juan

95. Below 189 =
1 Grade Level Below

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99. Lexile=110

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101. Spring Grade-Level
Target=207

102. Spring Grade-Level
Target=207
188+?=207

103. Spring Grade-Level
Target=207
188+19=207

104. Spring Grade-Level
Target=207
188+19=207
188+7 (national
norm)=195???

105. Does one size fit all?

106. RIT Point Norms

108. 7 pts growth for all 4th graders?
181 204
171 191

109. Growth Should Depend on
Starting RIT
10 6
12 8

110. Grade-level=207

111. Grade-level=207
188+?=207

112. Grade-level=207
188+19=207

113. Grade-level=207
188+19=207
188+8=196

114. Improvement

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124. Simple

125. lesson 2:
make the right thing
easy and flatten the
curve

126. Chapter 3:
emily

128. emily

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130. 33
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132. Z Score
The z score reveals how many
units a case is above or below
the mean.

133. 19=207
188+

134. Example
Z score = (Student’s RIT Growth –
Mean of RIT Point Norm Growth)/
RIT Point Norm Standard Deviation
(SD)

135. 19-8.46=

136. 19-8.46=

137. 19-8.46=10.54

138. 19-8.46=10.54
10.54/7.87=

139. 19-8.46=10.54
10.54/7.87=

140. 19-8.46=10.54
10.54/7.87=1.34

142. Effect Size
-0.5 to 0.5 is “normal”
0.5+ some positive effect
-0.5 some negative effect

143. Effect Size
-.19 .44
1.07 .25

144. Effect Size

145. Effect Size
Mean of all student z scores
is the Effect Size
-0.5 to 0.5 is “normal”
0.5+ some positive effect
-0.5 some negative effect

151. lesson 3:
measure what matters
(growth)

152. Chapter 4:
John

154. How do we know we
are making a
difference?

155. What factors are
contributing to our
success or failure?

156. It is estimated that
fewer than 10%
strategies that are
effectively formulated
are effectively
implemented.
-Forbes

157. Balanced
Scorecard is
like a
report card.

161. Strategy Map
Improve student
achievement
Increase student,
Improve student
Highly Successful family, and
products
community
and Satisfied satisfaction
Customers
Increase
Increase quality Increase use of data
Effective collaboration
instructional to inform
Instruction practices instruction
Increase employee Improve quality and
satisfaction Improve alignment of
Staff Learning communication professional
and Growth development
Financial Prioritize Manage Costs
Increase Revenue Resources
Performance

165. lesson 4:
have system goals

166. Epilogue

167. Make the right thing easy to
do and the wrong thing hard
to do

168. Measure What
Matters

169. Flatten the Learning
Curve

170. Make Meaning

171. one more thing…

173. CASE Conference
August 2, 2007
Joseph Miller
Adams County School District 14
4720 E 69th Ave
Commerce City, CO 80022
jjmiller@acsd14.k12.co.us