Data Informed Leadership: How Can Data Influence Leadership Decisions?

Being data-informed aligns with your ability to analyze your context and make decisions about what leadership knowledge and abilities to apply to support quality school leadership, quality teaching and optimum learning for all students in the school authority.  This session will provide an opportunity to learn how your colleagues interpret and communicate interpretations of data and hear from a school authority about how data analysis informs their practices.  A concluding activity will focus on using student learning data for getting ready for the new curriculum and will model approaches to using information to support your school authorities’ directions.

SCHEDULE OVERVIEW

1:00 – 1:30 pm
What information most supports your leadership and school authority plans for continuous improvement?  This interactive “warm up” activity will result in a CASS members compilation of approaches to data analysis and communications.

1:30 – 3:00 pm
Division Transformation: A Data Driven Commitment
Grande Yellowhead Public School Division Presentation with Carolyn Lewis and her team: Carra Aschenmeier, Kelly Harding, Adam Fragomani, Stephen Ripkins, Fragomeni, Stephen Ripkins

The session will address the GYPSD story of practice where an intentional focus on data to drive student learning is discussed. We will address:

• Data days,
• Data stories as a division and also in individual schools,
• Building principal, assistant principal, and teacher capacity to understand data,
• Including the Board in data discussions, and
• AERR/3YEP

Practical ideas for leading school division data days as well as suggested approaches to deepen teacher and leader understanding around the connection of data and instructional practice.

Carolyn Lewis is the Superintendent of Grande Yellowhead Public School Division. Prior to joining GYPSD, Ms. Lewis served as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal with the Edmonton Public School Board, and as a Senior Education Manager in three branches of Alberta Education. Carolyn received the Deputy Minister’s award for contributions to Education, was an Excellence in Teaching Award finalist, a winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence, and a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for Contributions to Education. Carolyn is completing her second year of a doctoral program in Organizational Design.

3:00 – 4:00 pm
Getting Ready for New Curriculum with Joanne Pitman (Calgary Board of Education)
This interactive opportunity will allow participants to reflect on the data and evidence they are using as a system in support of teachers planning for student learning with new curriculum. Join Joanne for an interactive opportunity to explore what data can support leaders and teachers with getting ready for a new curriculum.  A focus will be on setting data and evidence aligned with domains from the assurance framework to shape implementation.

Joanne Pitman holds a Master of Education (Educational Leadership) from the University of Lethbridge. Before joining the CBE, Joanne held the position of Assistant Superintendent Universal Design & Learning in the Medicine Hat Public School District. She began her career with the Grande Prairie Public School District as a teacher, principal, district principal, and director. Joanne’s career has focused on intentional practice, developing and leading effective collaborative teams, and the use of school and system evidence to support a responsive learning environment.