Data, Data, Data-- Everywhere There Is Data
Nowadays, educators have so much data being tossed at them daily. There are online data from the digital content resources, the district provided data from the common assessments, exit ticket data from the teacher, and not to mention the ongoing summative assessments. With all of this data submitted to the teachers, it is no wonder why most educators don't even know where to start with USING the data to drive the instruction in the classroom. Five Ways to Use the Data
This blog post will walk you through five ways to use the data in a blended learning classroom setting.
1. Simple Ways to Collect Data
Start by making a game plan on what type of data you plan to collect within a given day or week. Think about this scenario, a teacher deploys four learning studios, each studio has a quick check for understanding, and the teacher will see over 125 students in one day. That means that there is a possibility of 500 pieces of paper to grade from one full day at school. Nobody has time for that kind of grading.
Here is the Game Plan for grading and collecting data 
With this game plan, the teacher went from grading 500 pieces of paper to grading a quick check at the mini-lesson. The workflow went from being all on the teacher to now transferring the workload to the students. Of course, this does not happen overnight. You will need to take time to train the students on how to be responsible for completing their work, checking the work, and commenting on other student work.
2. Teacher Data Clipboard
After visiting close to 1,000 classrooms in the first semester of school, I have realized that most educators don't have a system to keep track of student growth, and data. Of course, every teacher is using the grade book reporting system to report absent students and test scores. I am not talking about the lack of reporting essential data but rather how a teacher can keep track of the daily data and weekly progress of understanding a skill or concept.
After visiting a Kindergarten classroom at Kirtland Elementary, I feel in love with their daily tracker. (See the photo below.) The tracker was easy to use, it kept track of daily growth, the standards and breakdown of the standards were listed on the top, and the teachers used the data to group and regroup the students based on the mini-lesson exit tickets. 
I took this idea of the data tracker and created a blended learning weekly teacher progression board. The teacher progression board keeps track of the standard, the mini lesson exit ticket, the whole group exit ticket, any assessments, and the weekly data meeting. Watch the video below to learn more about the Teacher Progression Tracker.
3. Google Forms
I love using Google Forms. The ability to send students to a different question based on the answer is one of my favorite aspects of Google Forms. When using data in the classroom, Google Forms can become one of your quick assessments. Students can complete the quiz on their iPads, laptops, chromebooks, laptops, or even their phones. Watch the video below as I showcase how to design a quick formative assessment using Google Forms. Pay close attention to the end of the video where I showcase how to obtain notifications that someone responded to the Google Form.
4. Digital Content Websites
There are a lot of great digital content websites out there on the world wide web. I am going to share out my favorite websites that are adaptive, collect data, and are student friendly. Feel free to post any additional websites that you would like me to add to this list in the comment section below.
Elementary Data Collection Websites
Freckle
Read Theory
iReady
Discovery Ed and Neo K12
Newsela
Prodigy
Middle School Data Websites
Mathigon
Kahn Academy
Actively Learn
deck.toys
Newsela
Study Jams
High School Technology Tools
Mathigon
PhET: Free Online Physics, Chemistry, Math, and more
Ed.Ted
Deck Toys
Write the World
HippoCampus
Data Meetings
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