WORKSHOPS and webinars

Data Use Demystified

Who needs it:

Data, data everywhere, but not a drop to help you improve? Administrators, faculty and staff are hungry for the right infor-mation at the right time to make the best decisions about policy and practice.

What you get:

This workshop presents the IEBC Data Use Model and its unique components: Analytics, Human Judgment & Decision-Making, and Organizational Habits. By integrating the latest research in analytics, neuroscience, and organizational behavior, this session helps educational institutions organize around, and maximize their use of, information to inform policy and improve practice. Participants have the opportunity to reflect on their own institution’s data use and misuse; and they engage in activities to immediately improve their organization’s useof information

Continuous Improvement Continuously

Who needs it:

Do you know who is responsible for continuous improvement in your institution? This workshop is for institutions and institutional leaders that want to create a sustained effort to get better at getting better.

What you get:

This workshop introduces the concept of the continuous pro-gram improvement cycle and its importance in creating a culture of inquiry and improvement, not just accountability, in our educational institutions. Continuous Improvement cycles focus on four stages of action and reflection. This workshop reviews promising practices related to these steps. Participants will iden-tify existing efforts within their institutions and learn how to map gaps between what is intended and what is actually taking pace.

Predictive Analytics: Leading and Lagging Indicators

Who needs it:

Are faculty and administrators frustrated by poor graduation rate performance? Is the release of your institution’s data frequently a barrage of bad news? This workshop is for institutions that want to be proactive and respond to data in time to make a difference for students.

What you get:

This workshop introduces the concept of predictive analytics and identifies leading and lagging indicators and their use in education. While predictive analytics create algorithms that flag likely outcomes, “leading and lagging indicators” break data down even further to better understand the impact of educational programs, policies, and activities. This focus ensures the metrics used to track student progress and outcomes are relevant, measurable, and easily understood. Participants will engage in activities that help them identify and develop appropriate indicators for their work; consider the availability of data to support their identified indicators; and develop plans to disaggregate the data for key subpopulations of interest.

Telling Your Story with Data

Who needs it:

Is data presented to promote discussion about student progress and achievement difficult to understand, overly complicated, or, even worse, useless? You’ve heard “data tell a story,” but you just can’t see it. Those educators who want to strengthen their ability to tell a story with their data should attend this workshop.

What you get:

The Telling your Story with Data workshop addresses how to identify the key stories to be gleaned from data and how to tell those stories effectively. Drawing upon IEBC’s data use model — Integrating Analytics, Human Judgment & Decision-Making, and Organizational Habit s — participants will learn how to turn data into information that is useful and useable. Learning more than the mere use of clever infographics, participants will practice identifying the story they want to tell and presenting it in ways, grounded in data, that ensure their message is understood and actionable.

How to Integrate Data into a Meeting

Who needs it:

Do you need to know how to successfully integrate data into meetings? If culture is to change around data use, data must be integrated in a deliberate, thoughtful way in day-to-day activities and meetings. This workshop is for all educators who chair meetings where data can and should be used to inform decision making.

What you get:

Too often, faculty dread attending meetings where data is presented. This workshop teaches participants how to use data to support meeting agendas and how to ensure that meetings integrate data into decision making. The use of such techniques as priming, protocols for reviewing data, and group dynamics are discussed. Participants will develop their skills in conducting meetings that include data and learn how to establish the expectation that meetings will include data.