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Educational Strategy Choice Help

Collaborative Data Analysis

This page shares how educational leaders can choose better educational strategies, increase stakeholder buy-in, and improve student outcomes.

Overview

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Ed. Strategy Choices Include:

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  • Professional development.

  • Instructional practices.

  • Educational policies.

  • Curricula by grade and subject.

  • Educational products & services.

  • Educational programs & initiatives.

  • Other educational strategies.

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Ed. Strategy Choices Drive:

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  • Standardized test scores.

  • Attendance.

  • Graduation rates.

  • Student behavior. 

  • College & career outcomes. 

  • Other outcomes.

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 We Help You . . .​​

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  • Choose better educational strategies, increase stakeholder buy-in & improve outcomes.

  • Avoid pitfalls when choosing educational strategies.   

  • Make the right strategy choices for your unique schools.

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Avoid the following Pitfalls​
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  1. Do NOT rely mostly on intuition and hunches.

  2. Do NOT rely mostly on the research sales representatives share on their products.

  3. Do NOT assume that evidence-based interventions are one-size-fits-all, magic bullets that will work for every school.

  4. Do NOT rely mostly on data dashboard analyses by I.T. people who are NOT trained in educational research.

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Use These Keys to Success

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  1. Use your hunches, but support them with data whenever possible (or when people have different hunches).

  2. Use research & analyses by an objective third party not associated with makers or sellers of the products & services.

  3. Use research & analyses that are specific to each of your unique schools' students, staff, existing strategies, etc.

  4. Use research & analyses by people with expertise in educational research (not your I.T. staff using a data dashboard).  

Three Important Questions


Why Data Use and Program Evaluation?

Data use and program evaluation help you succeed.  Formative evaluation may help you improve educational strategies.  Implementation fidelity studies may help you measure and improve staff buy-in & implementation levels.  Summative evaluation may help you document successes and decide which programs & strategies to use.  


 


Why Choose Sprelp?

The Sprelp team specializes in data use and program evaluation for schools.  We have formal training from Yale and other top schools.  We have decades of experience.  Finally, our staff have been invited to speak at the AASA NCE conference (the largest and most prestigious school superintendent conference in the USA).  


 


Why Start Now?

Starting now will allow you to begin making important decisions based on data sooner.  It will also allow you to start documenting any successes sooner.  If you hesitate and delay, you may not have the data and analyses you need when it is time to make important decisions.  You also may not be able to document your successes to key stakeholders.  


 


Next Steps

Consider scheduling a brief meeting.  This meeting will provide an opportunity to ask questions and learn how to get started when you are ready.  

Schedule a Brief Meeting Now!

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