Data: School Improvement Mapping

Our school is doing a lot of work with goal setting right now. My frustration is that we are more focused on goal setting, than what we are going to do to help our kids meet these goals. We can set any goal we want, but we aren't going to get there until we start doing something about it. At our last grade level data team meeting we spent all of our time coming up with a goal, and didn't have any opportunities to talk about what we can actually do for kids. I have several kids who are in serious need of interventions, but haven't had an opportunity to bring those kids to the table. Our next data meeting is Tuesday, and I'm really hoping that we will be able to move on to the "Clear strategies" and "specific actions" steps.