What You Will Learn

Learn how to fine-tune your current Data Wise practices and protocols to increase the impact on learning, teaching and school culture. The program provides an opportunity to receive feedback from faculty and colleagues on how to take your work to the next level.

Program Overview

Have you and your school or district team been integrating the Data Wise Improvement Process into daily work? This program will enable you to share your expertise and build on the experience of other schools to more effectively meet your goals and objectives. Participants in the Data Wise Impact Workshop will be both learners and teachers of Data Wise concepts and practices, working closely with peers to develop and refine strategies for integrating the process into their communities.

As a participant, your work will begin roughly two months prior to the institute, when your team will be assigned a graduate student to help you review and prepare your work for your time on campus. During the program you will explore effective practices as well as the challenges and rewards of using data wisely through case studies presented by schools actively engaged in this work, large group presentations and discussions, and focused small group exchanges with colleagues.

Program Objectives

• Improve your ability to lead data-based improvement work, using tools and insights offered by colleagues and the Data Wise teaching team
• Learn how to assess your work over time against the Data Wise rubric
• Identify a problem of practice or an issue that you are committed to addressing
• Share an effective practice that has been powerful in your work

Who Should Attend

• Teams who are currently implementing the Data Wise Improvement Process in their school or district
• Teams composed of a principal and one or several other educators in leadership—including teacher leadership—roles
• Alumni of any Data Wise course offered by HGSE including;
  • The week-long institute, Data Wise: Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning
  • Online courses offered through WIDE World; Getting Started with Data Wise or Putting Data Wise into Action
  • A degree-program Data Wise course
• Teams can also include members who are not Data Wise alumni themselves but who are actively involved in the implementation of their school's work in using student data to improve learning and teaching
• The program is appropriate for teams feeling enthusiastic about their data-based improvement work, teams feeling stuck on a particular issue and those curious about new directions in which to take their collective practice

Faculty Chairs

Kathryn Parker Boudett is Lecturer on Education and the Director of the Data Wise Project at HGSE. Her research and teaching focus on helping educators make effective use of a wide range of data sources to improve instruction and student achievement. She is coeditor of Data Wise: A Step-By-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning with Richard Murnane and Elizabeth City; Data Wise in Action: Stories of Schools Using Data to Improve Teaching and Learning with Jennifer Steele; and Key Elements of Observing Practice: A Data Wise Facilitator's Guide and DVD with Elizabeth City and Marcia Russell.

Elizabeth City is Lecturer on Education and Codirector of the Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) program at HGSE. City has served as a teacher, instructional coach, principal and consultant. In each role, she focused on helping all children, and the educators who work with them, realize their full potential. Some of her publications include: Strategy in Action: How School Systems Can Support Powerful Learning and Teaching; Instructional Rounds in Education: A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning; and Data Wise: A Step-By-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning.

Additional faculty to be announced.

Enrollment Instructions

 Pre-work for the program began on March 20. Please contact a member of the enrollment team immediately at ppe@gse.harvard.edu if you intend to apply to the program.

Data Wise Impact Workshop is an application program. Participants will be selected based upon the match between their stated objectives and the goals of the program. To maximize the learning experience, the program aims to bring together as diverse a group as possible.

Fees

The comprehensive program fee includes tuition, all instructional materials and a social event. Participants receive a certificate of completion and a letter confirming clock hours of instruction.

Payment or a purchase order must be received within thirty days of registration and prior to the program start. Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses.

Accommodations

Hotel accommodations are made available to participants at a reduced rate. Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Detailed hotel information will be made available closer to the program date.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations must be submitted via fax or email. Full refunds will be given up to 30 days prior to the start of the program. Due to program demand and pre-institute preparations, cancellations received 14 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of 10% of the program tuition. Cancellations received within 13 days prior to the start of the program and no-shows are subject to the full program tuition. Please note: cancellation fees are based upon the date the written request is received.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education reserves the right to change faculty or cancel programs at its discretion. In the unlikely event of program changes, the school is not responsible for non-refundable travel arrangements or other planning expenses incurred.

Participant Substitution

Some PPE institutes allow substitutions and others do not. In all cases, substitutions require advance approval by PPE. We ask that changes to group participant lists take place at least two weeks prior to the start date of the program. If individual or team replacements are made within 14 days of the program start date, PPE may not be able to incorporate these changes into some or all of the program materials. We will make our best effort to incorporate requested changes where possible.