Tara Sides presented on data walls and their development and use at Landrum High School. She discussed two types of data walls: informational walls for public data trends and personal walls for confidential student data. At Landrum, she developed a data wall process including deciding the purpose and audience, design, and including progress measures. Feedback was solicited through a survey which informed changes like limiting students displayed and adding areas for at-risk students. The updated wall arranged students by needed units and provided a safe teacher interaction space. Next steps focused on adding traditional data and continued teacher data analysis training.

1. Tara Sides Landrum High School Tara.Sides@spart1.org South Carolina Education and Business Summit Presentation June 29,2010 Data Walls: More than just some DATA on the wall

2. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Colin Powell Tara Sides, June 29,2010

3. Tara Sides, June 29,2010 Why a data wall?

4. Informational: These walls are usually public and used to chart your major type of data trends….HSAP, EOC, attendance, etc…(High Schools traditionally have this type of wall) Personal: These are for school personnel only and contain confidential data about students (Elementary and middle schools tend to have this type of wall.) Tara Sides, June 29,2010 Two Types of Data Walls…….according to Tara

5. Decide your purpose….why are you creating the wall? Decide your audience…..who do you want to see it? How do you want it to look? Tara Sides, June 29,2010 The Development Process

6. Usually placed in a public place Highlights things about your school that you are proud or are different Compares your school data to local, state, and national data when it is accessible Measures progress overtime Keep it simple and easy to read Tara Sides, June 29,2010 The Informational Data Wall

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9. The First wall The Process The Failures The Survey Tara Sides, June 29,2010 The Landrum High School Story

10. Data Wall Survey How can the data wall be more user friendly? Currently the wall is organized by grade and students are tracked in math and English by their grades in these classes. What ideas do you have to better organize the wall? What are the current obstacles that keep you from using the wall? How could these obstacles be overcome? Additional Suggestions or Comments Tara Sides, June 29,2010 Soliciting Feedback

11. 24 in 4 Tara Sides, June 29,2010 Data Wall Reborn……

12. Real purpose Easy to read Teachers can make comments on the card Pictures of the students Work area for teachers Developed criteria to identify students to limit the number Specific area for students at risk for not passing HSAP Tara Sides, June 29,2010 Differences

13. Tara Sides, June 29,2010 Find a “Safe Room”

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15. The wall Arranged by the number of units each identified at-risk student has received Tara Sides, June 29,2010

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19. Provide more opportunities for teacher interaction with the wall Add “traditional” data wall information Continue to introduce teachers to data analysis Tara Sides, June 29,2010 Next Steps

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