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

Provide some strategies to deal with the overwhelming data.

Share our struggles, challenges, and successes.

Our Guiding Thought

“Don’t mistake activity for achievement” - John Wooden, UCLA basketball coach

Your Presenters

Richard Shea McClure - Teacher, Holston Valley Middle School

Amy Keesling - School Counselor, Holston Valley Middle School

Holston Valley Middle SchoolLocation: Sullivan County School District in Bristol, TN Size: 180 - 200 students in grades 6-8Information:

High percentage of economically disadvantagedRural students and locationLow parent involvementHistory of a drop in 7th grade TCAP and TVAAS scores Grade level teams consist of 3 academic teachers

Our Story

Hitting Bedrock2011-2012

Finding Gold2012-2013

7th grade RLA scores fell to 21.21% proficient and

advanced.

7th grade RLA scores rose to 46.0% proficient and advanced.

Students with disabilities had an achievement level of 6.7%

proficient and advanced in RLA.

Students with disabilities had an achievement level of 22.3% proficient and advanced in RLA.

Students with disabilities had a gap of 36.3%.

Students with disabilities gap decreased to 29.7%.

Congratulations and How?

What did I do different?

What is the secret?

Did I have a magic formula?

Minecrafting the Data

What is Minecrafting?

How does it fit what we are talking about?

What do you need to be successful in both?

Effective Mining

Drilling for Purpose - DATA

Extracting the Material - STUDENTS

Washing and Refining the Material - CONVERSATIONS

DRILLING FOR PURPOSE - Where to start?

When you look for gold in your data, which miner typifies your approach?

Yukon Cornelius

Tony Beets

Drilling - Finding Data with a Purpose2012 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)

Drilling for Gold

Starts the Process

Ongoing

Community Effort

Small Part of the Operation

Extracting the Material - Students

High Expectations

High Belief in Student Ability

Relationships

Best Practices

Extraction Challenges

Constantly Changing

Team Effort

Sacrifice

Washing and Refining Gold - Conversations

Grade level

Departmental level

School level

Student led

Washing and Refining Gold - The Impurities

Time

Time Too

Buy-in

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!!!!!

Questions

What do you need to know more about?

email: richard.mcclure@sullivank12.net or amy.keesling@sullivank12.net

REMEMBER

Guiding Thought - “ Do not mistake activity for achievement.” - John Wooden

Minecraft of teaching - Digging for Data1. Drill with/for purpose - Explore the Data2. Extract the material - Students3. Make gold - Conversations

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