Data-Driven Decision Making

Nov. 12, 2010 - PRLog -- NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Monday, November 1, 2010 — Knowledge Delivery Systems, Inc. (KDS), a leading provider of online professional development for K-12 educators announces a course entitled Data-Driven Decision Making: Implementing Strategies for Student Achievement by Lee Jenkins.

Educators will learn how to make data-driven decisions using classroom data to inform your instructional practice, resulting in higher student academic achievement. Do you strive to reach a bell curve by the end of a term?  While this may be common practice, the bell curve actually represents teachers' failure to teach and students' failure to learn. By capturing and analyzing student data in the form of graphs, charts, and diagrams, you will learn to adapt and focus instructional strategies to facilitate greater student success in less time. Jenkins presents lively graphic examples in a workshop setting, modeling the processes of charting and reading data. Use the L to J system, which conceptualizes what student progress, should look like over the school year, with the L representing high expectations at the beginning of the year and the J indicating that those expectations were met.

“Using data to drive instructional decisions is critical in the 21st century, says KDS CEO Alvin Crawford.  Lee’s course helps teachers understand the importance of analyzing data and teaches them to use tools to effectively transform data into more effective instruction, so that students can achieve higher academic success in less time.”

“Through the ‘magic’ of online video I am able to share what I do in schools with a much wider audience. The KDS course helps me communicate the effective use of data in schools.  My course captures the excitement coming from the students’ perception of themselves as a data analysis team led by their teacher.  We show students as a learning team that knows where they are going and how they are doing, says Lee Jenkins. “

For a preview of this course click on this link: http://www.kdsi.org/offers/promos/Data-Driven/index.html

About Lee Jenkins

President of From L to J Consulting Group, Inc., Lee Jenkins writes, speaks, and consults in the educational fields of standards, assessment, accountability, and data-based decision-making. Equipped with a B.A. from Loma Nazarene University and a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University, Jenkins taught in the California public schools and at Oregon State University. During his fourteen years as a school district superintendent, he studied the principles of quality organizations, eventually presenting his analyses in his books Improving Student Learning and Permission to Forget. An accomplished editor as well as author, Dr. Jenkins has addressed educators in most states plus several other countries regarding improving classroom, school, and school district systems for the benefit of student learning.

About Knowledge Delivery Systems, Inc.

Founded in 2002, KDS's corporate mission is to provide educators at the individual teacher, school district and state level with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve teacher effectiveness and prepare K-12 students with the skills required for college and careers in the 21st Century.

For more information on KDS's unique online professional development offerings please visit www.kdsi.org.

For media inquiries, contact KDS toll free at (800) 728-0032.

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KDS's corporate mission is to provide educators at the individual teacher, school district & state level with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve teacher effectiveness & prepare K-12 students with the skills required for college & careers.