Using Data to Improve Learning for All: A Collaborative Inquiry Approach

Collaborative inquiry + effective use of data = significant leaps in learning and achievement!

This resource helps school leaders combine a powerful collaborative inquiry process, reflective dialogue, and rigorous use of data to improve outcomes for all students. The author provides detailed examples of schools that have demonstrated dramatic gains by building collaborative cultures, nurturing ongoing inquiry, and using data systematically. The book demonstrates how to:

• Implement a collaborative inquiry process that meets accountability mandates
• Build and supporting a high-performing data culture
• Establish a school climate characterized by collective responsibility for student learning and a respect for students' cultures

Collaborative inquiry + effective use of data = significant leaps in learning and achievement!

This resource helps school leaders combine a powerful collaborative inquiry process, reflective dialogue, and rigorous use of data to improve outcomes for all students. The author provides detailed examples of schools that have demonstrated dramatic gains by building collaborative cultures, nurturing ongoing inquiry, and using data systematically. The book demonstrates how to:

• Implement a collaborative inquiry process that meets accountability mandates
• Build and supporting a high-performing data culture
• Establish a school climate characterized by collective responsibility for student learning and a respect for students' cultures

Nancy Love is director of program development at Research for Better Teaching. She previously served as principal investigator and director of the Using Data Project at TERC, an education research and development organization. While at TERC, Love worked with schools and mathematics and science education projects nationally to improve mathematics and science teaching and learning through effective and collaborative use of school data. She has worked at The NETWORK, Inc., and served on the staff of the National Institute for Science Education Professional Development Project. Love continues to work with professional developers and school leaders nationally to design professional development that is based on research, draws on a repertoire of robust strategies, and is tailored to local needs and goals for student learning. She coauthored Designing Professional Development for Teachers of Science and Mathematics, Second Edition (Corwin Press, 2003) and is the author of Using Data/Getting Results: A Practical Guide to School Improvement in Mathematics and Science and Global Perspectives for Local Action: Using TIMSS to Improve U.S. Mathematics and Science Education Professional Development Guide.