Lesson: Assessing Your Local Education Agency's Data Quality - Activities and Instruction

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• Have participants read "Helping a School Achieve Quality Data" and "Helping a District Achieve Quality Data" on pages 7 to 16 of the Forum Guide to Building a Culture of Quality Data: A School & District Resource. Participants should continue to add to the Quality Data Culture Concept Map. Participants should share their additions to the concept map.
• Have participants complete the Quality Data Self-Assessment Survey for either the school or district level, as appropriate to the workshop participant’s professional role.
• After completing the Quality Data Self-Assessment Survey, ask participants to share their findings in small groups. Have each group report out some common findings that point up strengths or weaknesses of the existing system(s). This self-assessment tool will help participants determine what next steps need to be taken in order to build a quality data culture.
• Encourage participants to add to the Quality Data Culture Concept Map.

Lesson Resources for Activities and Instruction

• Forum Guide to Building a Culture of Quality Data: A School & District Resource
• Quality Data Self-Assessment Survey School (17 KB) or District (18 KB)
• Quality Data Culture Concept Map (12 KB) (also used in the What is a Culture of Quality Data? lesson)