S1 E18 - Reasons the Wheels Might Fall off Your Whole School Approach - Part 2

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In our last episode, I shared the first reason the wheels might be falling off your literacy improvement efforts. If you haven't listened to that episode about the need for strong, decisive leadership, I suggest you go back and listen when you have a moment.
In this week's episode, I'd like to discuss the second reason the wheels might be falling off your literacy improvement efforts, which is the importance of getting your assessment and data ducks in a row. I'll start this discussion with a few points about what we should be assessing in the early years and upper primary.
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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Are your data duck in a row? (00:00:27)

3. What should we be assessing? (00:01:09)

4. Why you need good data. (00:02:30)

5. Did you ditch levelling or benchmark assessments? (00:04:00)

6. The value of oral reading. (00:07:45)

7. We need to make a shift in our thinking. (00:09:07)

8. Let me clarify. (00:10:12)

9. Are you over-assessing? (00:10:55)

10. How you can question your assessments. (00:11:43)

11. No. 1 - What questions do we need our assessments to answer? (00:11:56)

12. No. 2 - Do any of our other assessments already provide that data? (00:12:30)

13. No. 3 - Will the assessment tell me something new? (00:12:35)

14. No. 4 - Does it do what it says on the tin? (00:12:56)

15. No. 5 - Is every student capable of completing the assessment? (00:13:11)

16. No 6 - How you can get real-time information about student progress. (00:13:53)

17. No 7 - Check alignment between reading assessment tools and achievement standards. (00:14:32)

18. Are you over-assessing? Continued (00:15:13)

19. No. 8 - What do I do about the mandatory assessments? (00:15:35)

20. No 9 - Using your data to plan for instruction. (00:16:15)

21. Get your whole team on board the bus. (00:17:00)

22. Want to know more? (00:18:39)

23. In conclusion... (00:18:54)

24. Coming up next (00:19:22)