Here are some data-driven decision-making resources from CASTLE that may be helpful to you…

White papers

• Data-driven teachers (Microsoft white paper)
• Technology tools for data-driven teachers (Microsoft white paper)

Book chapters

• Best practices in digital technology usage by data-driven school psychologists (American Psychological Association)

Podcasts

• Data-driven decision-making (Tim Wilson interviews Scott McLeod)
• Data-driven decision-making follow-up (Chicago Public Schools interviews Scott McLeod with follow-up questions from Chicago principals who had listened to the interview with Tim Wilson)
• A conversation with Jan Witthuhn (data-savvy superintendent in Minnesota)
• A conversation with Joan MacDonald, Linda Perdaems, and Colleen Wambach (data-savvy principals in Minnesota)

DDDM readiness surveys (Minnesota Department of Education; learn more about these)

• Teacher
• Principal
• Superintendent
• Technology coordinator

Other resources

• School data tutorials (DDDM-focused Excel 2003 screencasts)

Recommended reading

• Scott McLeod’s list of recommended DDDM books
• Inside the black box: Raising standards through classroom assessment (Black & Wiliam)
• How student progress monitoring improves instruction (Safer & Fleischman)
• Mapping a course for improved student learning: How innovative schools systematically use student performance to guide improvement (Supovitz & Klein)
• Maximize your mining, part one (McIntire)
• Maximize your mining, part two (McIntire)
• Gaining traction, gaining ground: How some high schools accelerate learning for struggling students (Education Trust)
• The power to change: High schools that help all students achieve (Education Trust)
• Data-driven high school reform: The Breaking Ranks model (LAB)