Patricia A. Roy & Thomas R. Guskey 
Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning: Data 

When teachers use data effectively, students see results.



Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning.



In this volume, the authors explore the crucial function of data for designing, implementing, and evaluating professional learning. The book’s features include:

• An original 'think piece’ by Thomas Guskey on using data in deliberate and thoughtful ways in the context of professional learning


• Specific implementation strategies that focus on analyzing student, educator, and system data and assessing progress


• A detailed case study of one district’s journey to successful use of data and how it led to measurable improvement in student achievement

Learning to collect, analyze and use data is an essential component of professional development. When schools are able to make data work for them, students are the ones who benefit.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Series – Stephanie Hirsh

The Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning

The Data Standard

About the Authors

1. Using Data in Deliberate and Thoughtful Ways – Thomas R. Guskey

2. Using Data to Make Professional Learning Decisions – Patricia Roy

3. The Case Study – Valerie von Frank

Index

O autorze

Valerie von Frank has written extensively about education over several decades as a daily newspaper reporter in multiple states covering public schools and, over the last decade, for NSDC publications, including JSD, Tools for Schools, The Learning System, The Learning Principal, and T3. She is a former editor of JSD, worked as a daily newspaper editor, served as communications director in an urban public school district, and was communications director for a Michigan nonprofit school reform organization. She is co-author with Ann Delehant of Making Meetings Work: How to Get Started, Get Going, and Get It Done (Corwin Press, 2007). She is currently NSDC’s book editor and a freelance writer and editor.