Data Teams

At our administrators retreat this week we discussed data teams.  We were given a very good book to read and discuss.  DATA TEAMS: THE BIG PICTURE.  This is an awesome book.  I am a big data person and fully believe decision should be made with sound facts and reasoning.  This book goes a long way in simplifying the structure and process of utilizing data to drive instruction and decision making.  I recommend this book to any administator, I may fully change the way you look at making decisions; maybe not.  The schools represented in this book have made great strides in student achievement since implementing DATA TEAMS.  The book spells out the roles and repsonsibility of building leadership to support, not manage data teams in the schools.  Go ahead and check this book out.  Well worth the read.