Using Data to Drive Personalized Math Learning Needs

Editor's Notes

• #14: Sharnell
• #20: We will also show how this works using DBL during the exercise
• #21: Melissa - Please change this graphic if possible. Leadership: Establishing a Clear Vision for School-wide Data Use
• #23: Lack of pedagogical data literacy: Inability to translate into actionable instructional knowledge Resistance: Educators may find data-driven decision-making to hard and need to be convinced to expend time needed to make it work Unprepared leadership: principals are many times not prepared to help in the data-driven process Disconnection: between teachers and principals
• #24: Time constraints: lack of time of structured time to collaborate Lack of human capacity: around data-driven decision-making A need for more instructionally valid data sources: primarily common school-wide formative assessments that are better aligned to teaching and learning needs
• #31: 20 times is the number of attempts it takes a teachers to master a new skill. The biggest hurdle for teachers is not learning new approaches to teaching but, implementing them
• #32: Educators dashboards should be powered with real-time actionable formative assessment data that informs how different school and grade level usage links to progress and proficiency. Teachers should be able to access summarized, useful information via a online dashboard. Perhaps, most important, they can spend less time accessing and analyzing data, and more time focused on meeting the needs of each student. The DreamBox Insights Dashboard is perfect example of helping teachers connect to every math student every day by turning data into actionable insights, surfaces teachable moments, and changes the way educators connects with each student by providing: A whole new way to understand learning trends and tracking student progress Personalized instruction using real-time insights from learning data with pinpoint accuracy and progress against the standard, and as a result Facilitates more meaningful conversations by helping educators to know when to intervene and when to celebrate student success.
• #33: Knowing where each student is at any given time in their level of proficiency is a challenge for even the best teachers. Student progress and proficiency reports makes it possible, at-a-glance teachers able to: Track usage Monitor Progress in the curriculum - Monitor proficiency for an entire class or an individual students
• #34: Powerful data to drives a math culture by identifying what gaps need to be filled in understanding that provide foundational number sense. One high performing K-12 school started seeing children in K- 5th grades having great difficulty with number sense and started using a framework for data analysis to verify the cause. The administration and teachers adopted a data inquiry process, analyzed root cause for gaps, and developed a testable hypothesis that determined that classroom instruction was the problem. All K-5 classroom mathematics teachers were given targeted professional development in number sense and discovered their lack of proficiency in teaching number sense was the reason students were increasingly struggling with mathematics. Understanding number sense is foundational to proficiency in mathematics. This school now uses DreamBox for all students to ensure gaps in mathematics teaching and learning are resolved immediately. So the question is: How would you “score” each error? How would you respond to each error? What lesson(s) need to come before & after? Which of these errors are “naturally occurring” ? Do you have an effective adaptive learning tool that provides formative and personalized feedback to accelerate mathematics proficiency for all students?
• #35: “How do we improve learning and teaching through the personalization of strategies, tools, and supports for students?” Adapting to the individual learner and honoring their ideas personalizes instruction for interventions as well as being given feedback to learn from mistakes. Does you district or school have an adaptive learning tool that: - Provide access and equity for ELLs - Develops skills and closes gaps fast Integrates assessment with instruction - Provides research-based, standards-aligned online math curriculum - Empowers teachers with actionable data, reporting, and - Can provide on-demand or custom PD needed to use data to differentiate instruction, monitor, and speed progress.
• #36: Many of you are familiar with “Formative Assessment” which is “assessment for learning”. Effective teachers use formative and differentiated assessments on a frequent basis to structure inquiry-based instruction. The combination of instruction aligned with formative assessment creates feedback loops that can be used to identify students’ learning gaps, inform planning, and guide instruction. How efficient are your feedback loops? DreamBox offers nearly 1,800 engineered for exploration lessons with embedded for assessments and millions of paths through the curriculum to engage students exactly where they are, it adjusts in real-time adapting hints, level of difficulty, pace, and sequence.
• #37: Teaching students to learn how to learn should be foundational to instructional. Educators no longer have to use data that is “dead on arrival” after the learning has occurred. This adaptive learning tool is designed around the idea of “Formative Instruction”—every lesson within the program utilizes virtual manipulatives that allow students to show their thinking— through rich, interactive and open ended problem solving lessons—and allows the capture of every decision a student makes including response time, strategy used, types of mistakes, how they learn and more.
• #38: Adaptive learning tools, dashboard insights, blended learning, and on-demand professional development have taken instruction to a whole new level of efficiency and proficiency having a foundation of instructional strategies that have the highest probability of enhancing students mathematics achievement for all students from K-8 grade levels such as: - Identifying similarities and differences Summarizing Reinforcing effort and providing recognition Practice and homework Nonlinguistic representations Cooperative learning Setting objectives and providing feedback Generating and testing hypotheses Questions, cues, and advance organizers Based on this data, about a student and how they learn, students are provided with immediate, personalized assistance, adjusts the level of difficulty, scaffolding, sequencing, number of hints, and the pacing of problems based each student’s unique needs—And provides teachers with real-time, actionable data to increase their effectiveness in tailoring instruction, accelerating student proficiency and enabling them acquire a enduring conceptual understanding of mathematics concepts.
• #41: DreamBox Learning provides a new class of intelligent adaptive learning technology is the true game changer in education. Combines 3 essential elements 1) Rigorous K-8 Mathematics – DreamBox uses virtual manipulatives that enable students to build conceptual understanding and procedural fluency. Provided standards-based reporting. 2) Motivating Learning Environments that are age-appropriate and motives learners to persist and progress. 3) Powerful Intelligent Adaptive Learning engine providing millions of personalized, student-driven learning paths—each one—tailored to a student’s unique needs.
• #43: We have invested heavily in ensuring you, your fellow administrators, and your teachers have access to data that is meaningful and actionable. This fall, our new educator experience will become available. New dashboards will provide at-a-glace insights into student proficiency and program usage – helping educators determine what action is needed to have an even greater impact on student learning All dashboards present data intuitively, so you and your teachers can access the information you need, when you need it. Helps educators know when to stay the course and when to pivot instruction Allows teachers to facilitate more meaningful conversations. (Left) Teachers can dive deeper into specific information about how their class is performing against the standards. Here they can see which students have mastered the standard, which have not, and which have not attempted it. This data is based on continuous formative assessment. A teacher might use this report is in lesson planning - they can look at this report to gain insight into where each student is and then take action by creating learning groups or pulling a student aside for more 1:1 instruction. (Right)The activity feed allows teachers to see what students are working on. They can click into the demo lessons so they can experience the instruction - just like the student. Many teachers use this to expand their understanding of the math concept and develop new teaching strategies to support student learning.