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Digging Into Data: Holston Valley Middle School
The Minecraft of Teaching
Welcome
Take a moment to answer these questions on your provided index card.
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 SchoolLocation: Sullivan County School District in Bristol, TN Size: 180 - 200 students in grades 6-8Information:
High percentage of economically disadvantagedRural students and locationLow parent involvementHistory of a drop in 7th grade TCAP and TVAAS scores Grade level teams consist of 3 academic teachers
Our Story
Hitting Bedrock2011-2012
Finding Gold2012-2013
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 of 36.3%.
Students with disabilities gap 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 Purpose2012 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?
Take a moment to write down on a sheet of paper what ideas you are going to use from this presentation.
SHARE!!!!!
REMEMBER
Guiding Thought - “ Do not mistake activity for achievement.” - John Wooden
Minecraft of teaching - Digging for Data1. Drill with/for purpose - Explore the Data2. Extract the material - Students3. 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
