Run regular teacher-team data meetings around student-level indicator reports to identify struggling students, assign interventions, and coordinate support¶

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Description¶

The report describes teacher and school staff teams that meet regularly around student-level indicator data as the operational core of early warning work. "Diplomas Now schools use an EWI team, where teachers and support staff review student data, assign interventions, and report back on how students are doing to the team." In Chicago, ninth-grade teacher teams meet weekly or monthly around data reports, share information about why students struggle, and develop coordinated plans so students are reached long before they have failed a class or fallen too far behind to catch up.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• An EWI system must provide data reports on students throughout the school year showing which students are in need of support
• The system also must include structures that provide guidance to educators around data use

Constraints¶

• Even when data are organized into useful reports, teachers and school staff frequently require support around how to act on the information, per the practitioners profiled from NCS and New Visions
• Using indicators to increase attainment requires substantial change in school practices and takes time to organize, analyze, and reflect on data; without sufficient support and training, schools often struggle to implement indicator systems

Target Learners¶

• Ninth-grade high school students flagged by early warning indicators
• Middle grades and high school students at risk of dropping out

Target Learning Goals¶

• Staying on track for high school graduation
• Improved attendance and course performance

Affordances¶

• Early Warning College Readiness Indicator Systems Definition

Related Strategies¶

• Weekly teacher team meetings to review each student's strengths, progress, and obstacles
• Use a monthly school attendance team to review data and problem-solve
• Professional Learning Communities
• Establish precursor conditions — school vision, collaboration, equity focus, and supportive culture — to nurture a data-use culture

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Allensworth, E.M., Nagaoka, J., & Johnson, D.W. (2018). High school graduation and college readiness indicator systems: What we know, what we need to know. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://ncs.uchicago.edu/freshman-on-track-toolkit