• The Practice Guide includes five recommendations that are intended to form a framework that examines data use at all levels of the system.
• The first recommendation focuses on making data part of an ongoing cycle of instructional improvement.
• The next recommendation focuses on students becoming partners in their own education, and teaching students to use data-to examine it and develop their own learning goals from it-can be one way to foster that partnership and help motivate students and make them really feel like they
are part of the educational process.
• The remaining three recommendations focus on what schools and districts
need to do to create the conditions that are necessary to support data use
and to establish a vision that everyone can get behind in terms of how they want to use data in the school.
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