2009 Summer Training – The Local Connection: Building a Data Use Learning Community

The 2009 Summer Training focused on the characteristics and essential elements of data use learning communities at the state and local level.  The training presented steps in the process of establishing and sustaining a data use learning community as well as barriers to, and motivators for local programs to use data.  Select communication tools were demonstrated for specific purposes related to implementing and maintaining a data use learning community.  Participants developed a state action plan for encouraging locals to value and use data for program improvement.

Training materials are available below for download.  The materials include a companion guide to the training, learning community pre- and post- needs assessment surveys, the PowerPoint presentation with facilitator’s notes and corresponding handouts, and other resources.

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NRS Guide

• 1. Guide – The Local Connection: Building a Data Use Learning Community
  This guide uses a "community of learners" model as an organizing framework to promote data use, foster communication on data, and sustain a culture of data use at the local level.
  
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  •  The Local Connection: Guide to Building a Data Use Learning Community

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Facilitation & Professional Development Materials

• 2. Presentation and Handouts from the 2009 Summer Training
  The PowerPoint slides and corresponding handouts are aligned with the content of the Guide.
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   The Local Connection: Building a Data Use Learning Community Presentation

   Facilitator's Notes & Training Handouts   

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Training Tools

3. Tools for Planning, Training, Analysis and Community Building

Sample Learning Community Pre- and Post- Self Assessments  

 Teacher Assessment          Administrator Assessment

Sample Learning Community Participant Survey

  Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews - Kreuger

 Sample Student Focus Group Protocol

 

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Additional Materials

4. NRS Regional Training 2009: Technology Tools for Learning Communities  Demonstration Site (at www.airlearning.org)

Site Access Instructions: 

• Under the list of Available Courses, select NRS 2009 Regional Training.
• On the Login Page, click on the Login as Guest button
• Next, you should be directed to the Guest login page. Where prompted for your Enrollment Key, enter conference.
• Finally, click on the Enroll me in this course button.

 

6.  Selected Readings

Thomas Guskey

• Five Levels of Professional Development Evaluation
• Results-Oriented Professional Development: In Search of an Optimal Mix of Effective Practices

 

 

Managing Change Chart - CALPRO

Change Has Changed: Implications for Implementation of Assessments from the Organizational Change Literature  - Suzanne M. Stiegelbauer

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory

• Creating a Context for Change
• Professional Learning Communities: What Are They And Why Are They Important?
• Site-Based Decision Making: Its Potential for Enhancing Learner Outcomes
• Staff Development and Change Process: Cut from the Same Cloth
• Launching Professional Learning Communities: Beginning Actions
• Vision, Leadership, and Change

 

• 7. Group Pictures from Training
• Click on any of the thumbnail images below to see a full-size image.

Washington, DC

 

San Diego

 

 

               Madison

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