Data Driven Decision Making...
Something we've heard said so much in the last few years.
I greedily hoped for more.
I imagined a group of people sharing their application of
- easily acquired, timely classroom data that was
- linked to curricular resources for assessment responses, regardless of right or wrong, and
- coupled with professional learning community tuning protocols so that they would have a safe means of describing why Mary's first graders bombed on Patterns while Debbie's first graders
- further supported by a menu of professional development opportunities that could be mapped directly from student challenge patterns emerging out of each classroom.
I can see where they are going, how they are creating their future, building it out of the very tangible challenges of the present, and how they have brought current thinking and emerging technologies into their setting.
Looking at the group sitting on the other side of the audience, I saw a collection of committed young-ish educational professionals, bejeweled with the best thinking of their age. They were a determined lot, polished and cool in the air conditioning, with the beads of wisdom breaking out as the audience asked tough questions.
They had walked through the fire.
It was clear.
They had quite determinedly brought the hand of assessment across the cultural abyss, and from another world, drawn the wisened hand of curriculum, and there in the bright white light of technology, the two were joined in an instructional space that I can see clearly will coexists well into the future of our educational processes.
Who can't see great things here?
Best,
BS
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