Hitting the Data Wall: Measurement-Centered Instruction takes hold in High Poverty Schools - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

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Hitting the Data Wall: Measurement-Centered Instruction takes hold in High Poverty Schools

by Anthony Cody

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A newspaper report from Mobile, Alabama, describes the system clearly.

Color-coded sticky notes on a wall in the "data room" at Mobile's Gilliard Elementary School bear the names of every pupil who is struggling in reading or math, has been absent too often, or has gotten into trouble for misbehaving.

A yellow note, for example, shows a kindergartner who failed a reading test.

A lime-green note shows a second-grader who made a D on his report card.

A light-blue note shows a fifth-grader who fared poorly on the state's standardized math test.

In all, there are 125 names on a dry-erase board that takes up one long wall in a conference room