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Using Curriculum Mapping and Assessment Data to Improve Learning

By: Bena Kallick, Jeff Colosimo

Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Enhance instructional planning and learning outcomes through data-based decision making!

In this detailed guide, data experts Bena Kallick and Jeff Colosimo present effective methods for using data from multiple sources to inform decision making and enrich instructional practices. The book provides how-to information on reviewing curriculum maps, protocols for analyzing student work and assessment data, and three real-life case studies to help school, district, and curriculum leaders:

Analyze assessment data and curriculum data to revise and improve curriculum
Facilitate professional dialogue
Engage faculty and create meaningful consensus
Change school culture and give teachers incentives to sustain improvements

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412927826
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 144
Publication date: July 10, 2008

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"Kallick and Colosimo have created a terrific book to help readers consider the next steps in using curriculum mapping, assessment, and technology to generate vibrant and productive learning communities."
—From the Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

"This book will help schools everywhere consider the essential questions that great teachers ask, not just in one classroom but across disciplines and grade levels."
—Michael Robinson, Head of School
Lake Forest Country Day School, IL

Enhance instructional planning and learning outcomes through data-based decision making!

Today's educators are presented with data from multiple sources, including curriculum maps and national, state, and local assessments. How can educators make sense of the information from these different sources to improve student achievement?

Using Curriculum Mapping and Assessment Data to Improve Learning presents effective methods for using data from multiple sources to inform decision making and enrich instructional practices. Data experts Bena Kallick and Jeff Colosimo provide guidance for reviewing curriculum maps, protocols for analyzing student work and assessment data, information about using technology to support the process, and three real-life case studies as examples. The authors help readers successfully

Analyze assessment data and curriculum data to revise and improve curriculum
Facilitate crucial conversations and professional dialogue
Engage faculty as a team to create meaningful consensus
Change school culture and give teachers incentives to sustain improvements

By making data-driven decisions, all educators—from classroom teachers and building principals to district administrators and curriculum specialists—can dramatically improve student performance and create an environment that encourages optimism and increases opportunity.

Author(s)

Bena Kallick

Bena Kallick, Ph.D is a private consultant providing services to school districts, state departments of education, professional organizations, and public agencies throughout the United States and abroad. Kallick received her doctorate in educational evaluation at Union Graduate School. Her areas of focus include group dynamics, creative and critical thinking, and alternative assessment strategies for the classroom. Formerly a Teachers' Center director, Kallick also created a children's museum based on problem solving and invention. She was the coordinator of a high school alternative designed for at-risk students. She is co-founder of Performance Pathways, a company dedicated to providing easy to use software for curriculum mapping and assessment tracking and reporting, an integrated suite. She is presently a strategic advisor for SunGard Public Sector K-12 on behalf of Performance Plus, a transformational new product based on the work of Performance Pathways. She is known for her practical approach to making curriculum mapping and assessment a catalyst for improving teaching and learning.

Kallick's teaching appointments have included Yale University School of Organization and Management, University of Massachusetts Center for Creative and Critical Thinking, and Union Graduate School. She was formerly on the Board of the Apple Foundation, the Board of Jobs for the Future and Weston Woods Institute. She presently serves on the Board of Communities for Learning.

Her work with Dr. Art Costa has led to the development of the Institute for Habits of Mind (www.instituteforhabitsofmind.com), an international institute that is dedicated to transforming schools into places where thinking and Habits of Mind are taught, practiced, valued and have become infused into the culture of the school and community. The Institute provides services and products to support bringing the Habits of Mind into the culture of schools and the communities they serve.

She and Art Costa have just completed an online course for EduPlanet21, a company that is dedicated to Professional Development for Educators using the most contemporary tools and thinking to be successful engaging students as 21st century learners. In addition, she is the Program Director for this company.

Jeff Colosimo

Jeff Colosimo is a cofounder and the current CEO of Performance Pathways Inc., a technology company specializing in data-driven curriculum and assessment solutions. Colosimo has become a nationally recognized business leader and successful entrepreneur as a result of his commitment and innovative work over the past fifteen years in the K–12 education technologies industry. In his past experience as the founder and president of two other technology companies, AlterNet Performance and Alternate Solutions, his innovative work in the field led to several awards, including Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997, Arthur Anderson’s Best Practices Award in 1998, and a “Top 100 Hot Emerging Company” national ranking by ComputerWorld magazine in 1998.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction to Case Studies

1. Transforming to a Data-Informed Culture

Creating a Vision

Curriculum Mapping as a Data Source

Assessment Results as a Data Source

Using an Action Plan to Monitor Process

Summary

2. Transforming the Culture Through Incentives

Time as an Incentive

New Roles for Teachers as Incentive

Teaching and Learning Councils in a Building

Subject Area Coaches

Data Miners

Data-Informed Facilitators

Mapping Coaches

Summary

3. The Intersection of Curriculum and Assessment

Creating the Standards-Based School System

Assessment Data: Individual Classroom

Assessment Data: Benchmarks Across Grades or Courses

Assessment Data: State Results

Curriculum Data: Individual Classroom Level

Curriculum Data: Across and Within Course or Grade Level

The Intersection of Curriculum Mapping and Assessment

Summary

4. Leading With Data

Using State Assessment Data

A Protocol for Studying State Assessment Data

Comparing State Results and Curriculum Mapping Data

Performance Data From Local Benchmark Assessments

Protocol for Analyzing Benchmark Assessments and Maps

Classroom Data

Protocol for Analyzing Student Work in Relation to Their Maps

Curriculum Mapping Data

Protocol for Checking the Quality of the Map

Protocol for Curriculum Dialogue

Consensus Mapping

Summary

5. Case Study #1: The West Seneca Central School District

Overcoming Roadblocks to Success: Persevering to Make Curriculum Mapping Work!

Curriculum and New Teachers

Curriculum in West Seneca

The Prologue to Curriculum Mapping

Leadership

Zooming In on Two Schools

Professional Learning Communities

Addressing Obstacles That Can Impede Progress

Shared Input and Decision Making

Curriculum Cabinet/Councils

Resources & Incentives

Examining Data and Curriculum Maps

Summary

6. Case Study #2: Colonial Elementary School

Above and Beyond: A Story of School Improvement

Building Principal as the Model for Data Analysis

First Faculty Meeting of the Year: Reflect on the Past and Plan for the Future

Getting Ready for the New School Year: The Data Pipeline

Reflective Questionnaire

Reflective Questions for Math Pre-assessments

Creating Time for Data Analysis

Buddy Schedule

7. Case Study #3: West Chester East High School

A High School Journey From Individual to Cohesive Curriculum

8. Tips for Staying the Course

Index

Reviews

"Kallick and Colosimo have created a terrific book to help readers consider the next steps in using curriculum mapping, assessment, and technology to generate vibrant and productive learning communities."

From the Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

"By bringing together the best tools of technology, the most current research, and the classical mind-set of great educators, this book will help schools everywhere consider the essential questions that great teachers ask, not just in one classroom but across disciplines and grade levels."

Michael Robinson, Head of School
Lake Forest Country Day School, IL

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