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Is your school failing or do you not collaborate? If you collaborate well already most of this isn't needed. If the collaborating is ineffective, there is data on this somewhere. This method is mostly about collaboration, not data. It's also mostly for principals to implement on things like attendance.

A lot of times these meetings are ineffective because people discuss important things but unless a running list of items discussed and resolved is generated, teachers and administrators are often just repeating the same thing over and over from meeting to meeting.[/quote]

Doesn't matter if "most of this isn't needed".   Central Office decided all the schools in our district will use the Data Wise Process.  Yes we all collaborate.  We are full of collaboration.  We collaborate up down and sideways.  We collaborate to identify our priority question and to do our data walks and to gather our data into data stories.  We share our date stories collaboratively, and then do gallery walks sharing how our data answers the priority question, and then we collaborate to identify "next steps" in instruction.

The data raise method is mostly for us to improve test scores whether the schools are failing or not.

You have correctly identified one problem which is that we are repeating the same things, not just from meeting to meeting, but from year to year.   However you have failed to identify that the problems are always the same problems, just come with different buzz words.

The problems in elementary school are that (a) some kids can't decode. (b) some kids don't know their basic math skills.[/quote]

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