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Digging Into Data: Holston Valley Middle School

Digging Into Data: Holston Valley Middle School. The Minecraft of Teaching. Welcome. Take a moment to answer these questions on your provided index card. Who are you? What do you do? Where are you from? What do you hope to learn today?. Goals.

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Digging Into Data: Holston Valley Middle School

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  1. Digging Into Data: Holston Valley Middle School • The Minecraft of Teaching

  2. Welcome • Take a moment to answer these questions on your provided index card. • Who are you? • What do you do? • Where are you from? • What do you hope to learn today?

  3. Goals • Provide some strategies to deal with the overwhelming data. • Share our struggles, challenges, and successes.

  4. Our Guiding Thought • “Don’t mistake activity for achievement” - • John Wooden, UCLA basketball coach

  5. Your Presenters • Richard Shea McClure - Teacher, Holston Valley Middle School • Amy Keesling - School Counselor, Holston Valley Middle School

  6. Holston Valley Middle School • Location: Sullivan County School District in Bristol, TN • Size: 180 - 200 students in grades 6-8 • Information: • High percentage of economically disadvantaged • Rural students and location • Low parent involvement • History of a drop in 7th grade TCAP and TVAAS scores • Grade level teams consist of 3 academic teachers

  7. Our Story

  8. Congratulations and How? • What did I do different? • What is the secret? • Did I have a magic formula?

  9. Minecrafting the Data • What is Minecrafting? • How does it fit what we are talking about? • What do you need to be successful in both?

  10. Effective Mining • Drilling for Purpose - DATA • Extracting the Material - STUDENTS • Washing and Refining the Material - CONVERSATIONS

  11. DRILLING FOR PURPOSE - Where to start? • When you look for gold in your data, which miner typifies your approach? • Yukon Cornelius • Tony Beets

  12. Drilling - Finding Data with a Purpose • 2012 Sullivan County Summer Data Academy • TVAAS student projections and 2011-2012 TCAP scores for incoming students • Sullivan County Benchmarks for 2012-2013 • Classroom performance for students 2012-2013 (academic and exploratory)

  13. Drilling for Gold • Starts the Process • Ongoing • Community Effort • Small Part of the Operation

  14. Extracting the Material - Students • High Expectations • High Belief in Student Ability • Relationships • Best Practices

  15. Extraction Challenges • Constantly Changing • Team Effort • Sacrifice

  16. Washing and Refining Gold - Conversations • Grade level • Departmental level • School level • Student led

  17. Washing and Refining Gold - The Impurities • Time • Time Too • Buy-in

  18. What are you taking away from here? • Take a moment to write down on a sheet of paper what ideas you are going to use from this presentation. • SHARE!!!!!

  19. Questions • What do you need to know more about? • email: richard.mcclure@sullivank12.net • or amy.keesling@sullivank12.net

  20. REMEMBER • Guiding Thought - “ Do not mistake activity for achievement.” - John Wooden • Minecraft of teaching - Digging for Data • 1. Drill with/for purpose - Explore the Data • 2. Extract the material - Students • 3. Make gold - Conversations

  21. Evaluation • Please take the time to let us know how we did and what you learned from this presentation. It will help us and the LEAD Conference. Thanks in advance. • Shea and Amy

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