Redesign Remarks: Data & Assessment Team Shares Work Team Content

The Data & Assessment Work Team has been working hard to identify critical content that will be part of the Agency’s professional development redesign. This group, like the Adult Learning Work Team, has now shared its initial draft of work with the PLC Committee. (See last week’s Connection article for a reminder about how work team content is being shared.)

Focus of the Data & Assessment Work Team
The Data & Assessment Work team has focused on content that will enable Heartland AEA staff to do the following:

• Understand the purpose and development of assessments
• Organize and display data
• Interpret and report data
• Use relevant tools
• Incorporate other concepts and skills that are required for effective use of data and assessment information

The Data & Assessment Work Team received feedback on the group’s initial continuum of work related to the following questions:

• How does the identified continuum of learning connect to the work you do for the Agency?
• What items in the identified continuum of learning are essential to the work you do for the Agency?
• What appears to be missing from the continuum of learning?
  

The Data & Assessment Work Team shared the overview of its initial work with the PLC group, along with their Key Components. The video will reference the group’s original proposed Key Components. The team will incorporate the feedback received from the PLC group into their continued work on Key Components and professional learning that centers around data and assessment.

We hope you take a moment to listen to the overview and review the first draft of key components of the Data & Assessment Work Team. You will hopefully get sense of how the critical content this team has identified can be useful to you in the work you do for the useful to you in the work you do for children, families and educators.