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Organizing Progress Monitoring Data

See how one school uses grade-by-grade annual schedules, reading calendars, and instructional profiles to organize assessments and make it easy for teachers to use results.

An Assessment System that Works for Teachers
Warfield Elementary (FL)

This slideshow describes the practical strategies that Warfield’s reading coach uses to organize information for teachers. Look at the sample materials below to see grade-level examples of the actual tools she uses.

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How to Use Data Profiles

Warfield Elementary (FL)

Warfield’s reading coach talks us through creating and using instructional profiles. She describes how a teacher would use the sample profile to prioritize skill teaching. See an example of an instructional profile in the sample materials below. (9:04 min)

Download Audio – MP3 | 10 MB | 9:04 min

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Sample Materials

Assessment Schedule

Warfield Elementary (FL)

This timeline provides Warfield teachers with the schedule of assessments for the full year. The slideshow explains how the reading coach and teachers use assessment schedules at each grade level.

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Reading Calendar

Warfield Elementary (FL)

A sample calendar shows reading skills teaching and assessment expectations on a month-by-month basis. The slideshow explains how the reading coach and teachers at each grade use similar calendars.

Download Sample | PDF | 1 MB

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Classroom and Student Data Profiles

Warfield Elementary (FL)

A sample classroom assessment and instructional profile for one skill area shows how teachers use assessment information to group children for instruction and monitor their progress, as discussed in the interview with the Warfield coach.

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Setting Up A Progress Monitoring System

Listen to interviews with principals and coaches about how they put in place progress monitoring systems for reading schoolwide. See the agenda from one school’s regular data meetings.

Principal’s Role in Using Data to Guide Instruction

Warfield Elementary (FL)

Warfield’s principal describes how they boosted student performance by using progress monitoring results to guide instruction for English learners. (4:32 min)

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Coach’s Role in Using Data to Guide Instruction

Warfield Elementary (FL)

Warfield’s reading and writing coaches describe how they work with classroom teachers to organize and interpret assessment data and then group children for instructional support. (3:44 min)

Download Audio – MP3 | 4 MB | 3:44 min

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Leading Data Meetings

Bracker Elementary (AZ)

Bracker’s reading coach shares processes used to present data and uses them to determine appropriate interventions. In the sample materials below, review the agenda followed for data meetings. (3:21 min)

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Sample Materials

Data Meeting Agenda

Bracker Elementary (AZ)

This document lists the steps that Bracker staff follow to organize discussion of progress monitoring results and plan follow-up instructional support. Listen to the coach talk about data use at the school in the interview above.

Download Sample | PDF | 148 KB

A Kindergartener’s Progress in Writing

Follow the progress of a kindergarten student at risk for reading problems. Hear her teacher describe how to develop reading skills and see the month-by-month progress in her writing journal.

Kindergarten Writing Journal

Warfield Elementary (FL)

Nine monthly entries show the progress of a kindergarten student who entered school with no English proficiency. (Hear the teacher discuss her progress below.)

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Working with English Learners in Kindergarten

Warfield Elementary (FL)

The teacher discusses the progress in reading and writing illustrated by the journal entries of a kindergartener in the slideshow above. (4:17 min)