Data + improvement science + collaboration = brighter future for all students.
EK12’s Lead Bold program provides schools with a data-driven blueprint to rapidly resolve their toughest challenges.
How Lead Bold’s School Improvement Teams Work.
Step 1: Effective data tools and analysis infrastructure.
Drawing upon rich, longitudinal data, we create dashboards that enable school leaders to quickly identify areas of concern and bright spots aligned to their missions. Data update daily and are analyzed on a weekly-to-quarterly basis to drive continuous improvement conversations. This work includes:
A standardized, operational data warehouse containing all attendance, discipline, assessment, intervention, and academic data in one place to support rigorous impact analysis
Equity-centered views of key data points by student group
Trackers to standardize the collection of support services implemented by practitioners when required
Step 2: Bold ideas for root causes.
Each school is different and requires creative solutions to rapidly impact student academic and social-emotional wellbeing. A few weeks into the school year, after routines have been established and beginning of the year data collected, an EK12 school improvement coach and school leader convene the improvement team comprised of multiple practitioners.
Together, the team reviews disaggregated data and generates a creative, research-cognizant strategy that addresses a root cause preventing their students from achieving rapid academic and social-emotional growth.
Step 3: Review data frequently and adjust rapidly.
After a short-interval action research cycle, the school improvement team and their EK12 coach review progress, analyzing data for equitable and statistical improvement towards short-term and long-term goals. Our data check-in protocol includes an explicit focus on differentiating improvement for vulnerable student populations. Teams reflect on why they got certain results and what they learned to adjust and improve implementation.