When practicing truth-seeking, we look for multiple sources of data that can give us a rich picture of a challenge or situation. At a classroom level, the busy-ness of the profession can tempt us to forgo using the variety of assessment methods that would otherwise help paint a fuller—and truer—portrait of a student or classroom’s academic progress. Use this activity to have participants read an Education Week article and explore ideas from a number of education experts on how to create a richer portrait of student learning using multiple data sources.
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Using data in schools
Article
45 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Educator-prep | K-12 educators
Making connections:
Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.
How to lead a conversation between people who disagree
Video
9 minutes
By: Eve Pearlman, TED
Why do we believe things that aren’t true?
Video
16 minutes
By: Philip Fernbach, TEDx
Getting to know you
Tool
30 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Are we a team checklist
Tool
30 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Convergent thinking versus divergent thinking
Video
2 minutes
By: John Spencer