School leaders must know how to analyze, interpret, and use data so that they can make informed decisions in all areas of education, ranging from professional development to student learning. This book offers strategies and tools to help launch or fine-tune efforts to become a performance-driven school. Based on the authors’ extensive work with 12 schools, the book includes an examination of such essential topics as: establishing a data culture, investing in an information management system, selecting the right data, and analyzing and acting on data to improve performance.
About the Author
AMANDA DATNOW is a professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
VICKI PARK is assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at San José State University.
