Stage Three – Analyze Data
Meeting Two: Planning Team Agenda
The Kansas Improvement Process is inherently flexible, allowing districts to adjust the process, agendas, and/or activities to fit the needs of the district/school. Although this meeting is represented as one session, it could be a series of sessions.
What are the objectives for the second meeting?
The goal of this meeting is to analyze data to identify strengths and challenges of the district and/or school as well as consider their root causes. This includes bringing together data to formulate inferences for making informed decisions about school improvement.
What are the tasks for the first part of the meeting?
- Warm-up and/or team-school activities as appropriate.
- Review which data types have been collected and why.
- Familiarize the district planning team with the collected district and/or school data.
- Introduce the data carousel activity.
- Review Three Tips for Writing Powerful Narrative Statements.
- Complete data carousel activity.
- Determine strengths and challenges using narrative statements/key findings.
- Identify emerging themes.
What are the tasks for the second part of the meeting?
- Debrief the data carousel activity.
- Review the narrative statements/key findings.
- Identify what, if any, information is missing from the narratives.
- Note the strengths and discuss how these can be acknowledged and celebrated.
- Identify emerging themes.
- Regarding challenges, identify what themes emerged repeatedly in the different data categories.
- As a team, complete the Emerging Themes worksheet.
- Prioritize challenges using the Prioritizing Challenges worksheet.
- Compile narrative statements/key findings that are designated as challenges.
- Consider identified emerging themes.
- Individually prioritize challenges by level of dissatisfaction, by severity and by how much control the district or school has over the particular challenges using the Prioritize Challenges Worksheet.
- One team member tallies all ratings to determine an overall ranking.
- Evaluate the day’s activities.
- Determine next steps for meeting three.