UNPACKING ESSENTIAL FUNCTION 4: NOTICE AND ADJUST

Notice and Adjust

Taking time to collect more data on implementation, reflect, and adjust accordingly.

  • Allows educators to reflect on their professional practice.
  • Ensures fidelity of implementation.
  • Allows for midcourse corrections.
  • Establishes a cycle of continuous improvement.

Bring Students into the Process

Consider ways to involve students in instructional change, as a source of data to adjust instruction.  Teams can gather feedback from students in many ways.

Asks students to

  • Chart progress toward the learning goal and reflect on progress
  • Define success criteria
  • Help create assessments
  • Provide feedback through conferencing
  • Review their peers’ work together

Teachers can

  • Have conversations with students about what they know and don’t know
  • Listen to conversations that students have with each other
  • Ask information-generating questions

For further learning on this topic see the DACL module.

Data Sources

Data teams can use the following sources to triangulate common formative assessment data as they continue the cycle of examining data and adjusting instruction.

Academics

  • Curriculum Maps
  • Standard Selected for Assessment (Identify and unwrap)
  • Common Pre, Formative, and Summative Assessments
  • Common Scoring Guides and Rubrics

Behavior

  • Core Academic Standards (Social Behavioral)
  • Schoolwide Behavioral Expectations
  • Individual Classroom Behavioral Expectations
  • Minor Office Disciplinary Referral (ODR) Form
  • Major Office Disciplinary Referral (ODR) Form
  • Minor and Major ODR Data

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