As an instructional leader, you must use data to make decisions, modifications, and plans for professional learning activities for your teachers. Using a set of data, develop a research-based informed response to the following questions, including a reference page at the end of the responses. If you do not have access to a school data set, you may create a data set to use for this assignment. Your response should be a minimum of four pages plus cover sheet, abstract page and reference page. Discuss these questions with informed literacy leaders in your district (e.g., the district RTI coordinator, a school RTI coordinator, a reading specialist, and/or an administrator who has developed an effective literacy and RTI program).
1. Describe the data set. (e.g., the origin of the data set—your school or another school in your district, the name of the literacy assessment administered, the grade level of the students who participated, the areas of literacy assessed, etc.)
2. Describe the limitations of this particular assessment.
3. What recommendations would you make to the school schedule? Use the data to justify your answer.
4. What changes would you make regarding school staffing? Use the data to justify your answer.
5. What recommendations would you make regarding instructional grouping arrangements? Use the data to justify your answer.
6. Identify the changes you would recommend about human and fiscal resources:
7. What would be your procedure for identifying literacy experts to determine needed resources (e.g., text sets, intervention materials, etc.)?
8. What would be your procedure for identifying teacher gaps related to literacy?
9. How would you identify hiring needs for specialized literacy faculty?
10. In your discussion with the informed literacy leaders in your school/district, use the data to do the following:
11. Identify target areas for professional development.
12. Describe how you will develop and plan high-quality literacy professional development activities.
13. Explain how all professional literacy learning will be connected to evidence-based literacy practices.
14. Describe a plan for how all faculty will improve their skills for analyzing and interpreting literacy data.
Guidelines for submission:
• Cover page, reference page, and running head
• Four to six pages in addition to cover page, abstract, and reference pages
• Use of headings or numbers to identify responses
• A minimum of three scholarly resources to inform the writer’s position.
• Correct grammar, usage, and mechanics
• APA formatting, in-text citations, reference citations, and personal communication citations.
