Data wall high school

Data meetings at the high school level are rare. In this post, I share with you how we structured our last data meeting at our high school.

It’s a daunting task: collecting data in the classroom. Setting up a data program and managing it is not only a lot of work, but it can also be confusing. Typically, data folders are created and then left to collect dust on a shelf. Those are the kind of data folders or portfolios that are teacher or admin driven – just to check the box, so to speak. But what if it didn’t have to be that way – really? For years my students have charted their own data and reflected weekly on their learning…

High School Data "Wall"

I was reading this article about data walls Shaming students one wall at a time and I was surprised in some ways and not surprised in other ways. Sometimes, we as teachers, do things that seem motivating but than when we take a closer look, we realize how negative it is for our students. I will admit that early in my teaching career, I used to have a chart for how my students were doing on their math facts but I abandoned it for several reasons. The main reason was that it really did not…

I stayed late at work yesterday to write everything on my data charts and update them since my students took their first test today. Here's how it works: I use blue incentive charts from Creative Teaching Press along with their book and pencil stickers. I have a chart for each class period. To keep names confidential, I write the students ID numbers along the left side. I use my roster so the kids are still in alphabetical order, it just has their number instead of name. Across the top I…

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Schools use data walls to identify students for interventions, visualize common trends in data, and set goals for where students should be.

In the lead up to the 2019 school year, Instagram was filled with teachers creating beautiful things for beautiful classrooms. But as the parent of a school-aged child, one thing worried me - the number of displays which were created just to share the academic and behavioural levels of children in t