Sunday, March 16, 2008

IIRC

I enjoyed looking at the IIRC website. Its nice having a former superintendent to answer questions about budget changes. The best part for me was looking at the scattergram. It is definately the most important testing data I've seen. Our teachers' first excuse in not improving test scores is our low income students. It will be nice to show them actual data on how many districts overcome more problems than we have. On the other hand, it shows we are actually doing very well when compared to districts of our size and financially similar.

1 comment:

Lisa said...

Jay, I agree with what you said about the scattergram. Sometimes as teachers we feel like what we do isn't on par with other schools. It is interesting to be able to see the comparison to the whole state in one quick glance, and to see that your school comparable to other schools in the same situations.