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Job Goal:
Candidate is responsible for data and strategic planning as it relates to the TCLAS grant objectives. This is a grant position that is funded from January 2022 to August 2024.
Qualifications:
Education/Certification:
• Teacher’s or Administrator’s Certification
• Master’s Degree (required)
• Five years of experience as a classroom teacher or other relevant experience (administrator experience preferred)
Skill Requirements:
· Combine list of current data systems, identify strengths and areas for improvement, determine best solutions moving forward
· Responsible for year-long and improvement cycle metrics and data collection plan
· Must support in setting year-long and cycle goals, metrics, and ongoing data collection
· Must support in preparation including data collection, analysis, visualization, and storytelling
· Managing and Creating Data/Progress Monitoring Resources: Overseeing, improving, and when necessary developing data trackers, dashboards, and protocols to support in the performance management and continuous improvement of strategies aligned to RSSP 1a strategic plan
· Generally:
o Building, maintaining, and reporting out of data dashboards aligned to RSSP 1a strategic plan
o Creating data systems and resources when gaps or areas of improvement are identified
o Analyzing and creating visualizations of the data
o Communicating data to various stakeholders
· Weekly/Bi-Weekly LEA meetings with LEA’s RSSP Lead, team, and technical assistance provider (and ad hoc meetings as LEA’s RSSP lead designates)
· Bi-weekly/Monthly Data Fellow FTE PLC Sessions
· Monthly Check-Ins with LEA’s RSSP Lead and TEA’s RSSP Team
· 3 Times a Year Improvement Reviews
· Work to support the district and complete all assurances outside of meeting times listed above
· Optional Monthly/Bi-Monthly Office Hours, Data Fellow Collaboration Opportunities and Additional Professional Learning Opportunities
· Assisting in data monitoring beyond 1a COVID Recovery and Learning Acceleration Strategic Plan priorities (i.e., monitoring district-wide 3rd grade reading reporting)
· Furthering current data systems (i.e., tapping into attendance data, discipline data, etc. to build a more holistic idea view of student performance measures)
· Reporting out metrics to school and district leadership
· Co-leading professional development opportunities to teach others how to navigate data systems
· Monitoring alignment with other TEA initiatives or programs (i.e., tutoring)
· Developing, monitoring, or reporting out metrics related to plans aligned to closing opportunity and achievement gaps
· Leveraging data to improve culture (i.e., shifting negative connotations of data collection to viewing data collection as a source of empowerment & understanding needs better)
· Seeking to measure early learning
· Collaborate with Campus Interventionist to ensure that the High-Dosage Tutoring program is effective
· Managing digital platforms for tutoring interventions and supporting teachers in the progress monitoring process
Non-Data Hard Skills
- Software Utilization
- Previous experience and expert knowledge of the district's data platform [Google Suites, DMAC, etc.]
- Proficient in data management softwares and leverages them consistently to improve their work
- Design and Facilitate teacher and leader support
- Develop and execute professional development to ensure leaders and teachers are able to utilize software applications
Data Skills
- Data Visualization
- Organize, manipulate, and summarize data in various formats
- Transfer (and transform) data from different platforms into usable contexts
- Produce clear, clean charts, graphs or other data representations
- Data Analysis
- Transform the use of data to drive outcome, influence actions, and shift mindsets
- Produce data that is reliable and consistently available. Data can be “cut” in multiple ways using appropriate tools to manipulate the data
- Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis on RSSP (and core strategic issues) for the district, and synthesize insights from these analyses
- Understand the data sources and audience to ensure proper representation of findings
- Provide timely analysis to support data-driven decisions for complex projects. Align with initiative owners and senior leaders on key performance measures and outcomes
- Data Storytelling
- Serve as a storyteller of the data, understanding that data solutions are best rooted in stories. Leveraging and understanding staff- and student-experiences on the ground in schools to improve, validate, and further one’s data
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- Data monitoring including root cause analysis and action planning informed by on-the-ground experiences and data analysis
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- Communicate and summarize results of data analysis in written, oral and visual form
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- Updating, creating, and supporting databases and reports with key metrics to guide strategic decisions
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- Data Management
- Responsible for collecting and cleaning data
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- Responsible for creating a Measurement and Implementation Plan including determining what data is being collected and how it is being collected. Data Fellows will manage data collection and utilization as related to RSSP work
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- Create data structures, systems, protocols, and tools that facilitate performance measurement and continuous improvement
- Organize and utilize data in support of student learning objectives
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- Monitor progress including reviewing implementation, measuring outcomes, using predictive analytics to anticipate progress
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- Leverage pre-established systems to collect and manage databases, pulling together available data and transforming if for analytical work
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- Design and maintain internal databases, including the establishment of database standards and controls, management of source data, and assurance of data quality
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· Performs all other tasks and duties as assigned
