DesCartes Learning Labs

DesCartes Learning Lab
Lori Dawn Montanez, Principal, Pueblo City Schools District, CO
Fusion 2012, the NWEA summer conference in Portland, Oregon

This session will provide participants with the opportunity to experience a data team session and develop a DesCartes Learning Lab lesson. Participants will be given the tools to set classroom goals and determine DesCartes learning objectives along with the Common Core Standards. Participants will compose a learning lab lesson plan based off of their NWEA MAP data to take with them for use in their classroom. Anyone interested in enhancing student achievement should attend.

Learning Outcome:
- Participants will be given the opportunity to experience a data team session
- Participants will learn how to use NWEA Map data to set classroom goals.
- Participants will learn how to develop a DesCartes Learning Lab Lesson.

Audience:
- New data user
- Curriculum and Instruction

Chavez/Huerta is a K-12 Charter school of approximately 1,200 students within Pueblo City Schools District #60. We have been administering NWEA MAP assessments for 4 years. We are using DesCartes and Instructional Resources to guide student learning labs and enhance student achievement.

1. DesCartes Learning Labs By Lori Dawn Montanez Chavez/Huerta K-12 Preparatory Academy

2. DesCartes Learning Labs This session will provide participants with the opportunity to experience a data team session and develop a DesCartes Learning Lab lesson. Participants will be given the tools to set goals and determine DesCartes Instructional Skills. Participants will compose a learning lab lesson plan based off of their NWEA MAP data to take with them for use in their classroom.

3. DesCartes Learning Labs Data Teams “The Value of the Data emerges only when analysis provides insights that direct decisions for students.” White 2005

4. DesCartes Learning Labs What do we do with the Data? Goal Setting – School Wide, Grade Level, Classroom, Small Groups, and Individual Student. SMART Goals – Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely.

5. DesCartes Learning Labs What data does NWEA provide? School Wide Text File School Wide, Grade Level, Classroom Goals Goal Posters School Hallways and Classroom Doors Class by RIT Small Group Goals Students Goal Worksheets Individual Student Goals

6. DesCartes Learning Labs Goals Set – Now What? Interventions for s kill deficits DesCartes What is it? How to find it? DesCartes Learning Labs Select Instructional Skill Learning Lab lesson plan template

7. DesCartes Learning Labs Now it’s your Turn! Questions? [email protected]