What is it about?
This is a case for teaching educational leaders that provides a mock situation where a town is having equity and safety issues. The district conducts a discipline equity audit and a climate survey and you have the results. You are challenged in this case to interpret the data and develop a plan to share the data.
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Why is it important?
School leaders are making data based decisions more and more often, but many receive minimal training on how to use that data. This case provides educational leadership students with an opportunity to consider the challenges and limitations that also come with data use.
Perspectives
This is important because data is often used as a magic bullet to fix problems when it is only one step in a change plan. Data is a great too for getting a snap shot of a situation, but often it cannot tell the whole story. School leaders need to be able to transform data into a meaningful story that can help the school community change and grow based on determined findings.
Gina Gullo
Lehigh University
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This page is a summary of: Using Data for School Change: The Discipline Equity Audit and School Climate Survey, Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, September 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1555458917728758.
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