Transcript Digging into Data

Digging Into Data: Holston Valley Middle
School
The Minecraft of Teaching
Welcome
• Take a moment to answer these questions on your
provided index card.
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Who are you?
What do you do?
Where are you from?
What do you hope to learn today?
Goals
• Provide some strategies to deal with the
overwhelming data.
• Share our struggles, challenges, and successes.
Our Guiding Thought
• “Don’t mistake activity for achievement” • John Wooden, UCLA basketball coach
Your Presenters
• Richard Shea McClure - Teacher, Holston Valley
Middle School
• Amy Keesling - School Counselor, Holston Valley
Middle School
Holston Valley Middle School
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Location: Sullivan County School District in Bristol, TN
Size: 180 - 200 students in grades 6-8
Information:
High percentage of economically disadvantaged
Rural students and location
Low parent involvement
History of a drop in 7th grade TCAP and TVAAS scores
Grade level teams consist of 3 academic teachers
Our Story
Hitting Bedrock
2011-2012
Finding Gold
2012-2013
7th grade RLA scores fell to
21.21% proficient and advanced.
7th grade RLA scores rose to
46.0% proficient and advanced.
Students with disabilities had an
achievement level of 6.7%
proficient and advanced in RLA.
Students with disabilities had an
achievement level of 22.3%
proficient and advanced in RLA.
Students with disabilities had a gap Students with disabilities gap
of 36.3%.
decreased to 29.7%.
Congratulations and How?
• What did I do different?
• What is the secret?
• Did I have a magic formula?
Minecrafting the Data
• What is Minecrafting?
• How does it fit what we are talking about?
• What do you need to be successful in both?
Effective Mining
• Drilling for Purpose - DATA
• Extracting the Material - STUDENTS
• Washing and Refining the Material CONVERSATIONS
DRILLING FOR PURPOSE Where to start?
• When you look for gold in your data, which miner
typifies your approach?
• Yukon Cornelius
• Tony Beets
Drilling - Finding Data with a Purpose
• 2012 Sullivan County Summer Data Academy
• TVAAS student projections and 2011-2012 TCAP scores
for incoming students
• Sullivan County Benchmarks for 2012-2013
• Classroom performance for students 2012-2013
(academic and exploratory)
Drilling for Gold
• Starts the Process
• Ongoing
• Community Effort
• Small Part of the Operation
Extracting the Material - Students
• High Expectations
• High Belief in Student Ability
• Relationships
• Best Practices
Extraction Challenges
• Constantly Changing
• Team Effort
• Sacrifice
Washing and Refining Gold - Conversations
• Grade level
• Departmental level
• School level
• Student led
Washing and Refining Gold - The Impurities
• Time
• Time Too
• Buy-in
What are you taking away from here?
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what ideas you are going to use from this
presentation.
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Questions
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REMEMBER
• Guiding Thought - “ Do not mistake activity for
achievement.” - John Wooden
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Minecraft of teaching - Digging for Data
1. Drill with/for purpose - Explore the Data
2. Extract the material - Students
3. Make gold - Conversations
Evaluation
• Please take the time to let us know how we did and
what you learned from this presentation. It will help
us and the LEAD Conference. Thanks in advance.
• Shea and Amy