Blog 5 - Technology
Have I piqued your interest? 😊 What is "The NERD Doc", you may wonder? This is what has been taking over my life for the past two weeks or more! In my elementary school, as a Title I reading teacher, I am responsible for the upkeep of our shared building Google doc where all student reading and math scores are recorded three times a year. It is called NERD because our district reading specialist created it, and her last name is Neal. So it stands for "Neal's Essential Reading Data", but we also include math.
Every day I have been spending my prep looking at different grade levels and checking, which teacher still needs help completing their Fountas and Pinnell reading level testing? Who has not yet entered their QPS phonics data? How many students still need to test with sight words? And then I go to each teacher and ask to help with testing, entering data, etc. I am really hoping that it will be all complete soon!
What is this doc used for? Since it is shared with the whole school as well as our area education agency consultants, it is useful for preparing data for our child study/problem solving meetings. My fellow Title Reading teachers and I use a condensed form of this information to help us reevaluate our reading groups to be sure we are helping the students who have the most need. Sometimes a classroom teacher has a narrow view of who needs extra intervention, so this data source is helpful to show teachers how other classrooms compare to theirs.
Hi Kristen, I have found your post to be particularly interesting and applicable to what I have going on in my school right now. I think everyone is laser focused on data right now, trying to identify gaps that have come from a lag in education. I like that it is one document that is shared with the whole school. It seems like a great resource for an MTSS team.
ReplyDeleteHi Kristen, you definitely piqued my interest! With all of the acronyms that we need to reference in our days, I'm glad to see that your team is incorporating some humour into collecting data. We have a very paired down version of your NERD doc to keep track of data in our school and can I just say that I would be over the moon if someone showed up at my door to offer to help test or enter data for my students! I sure hope that your staff realizes what a gift it is to have that level of support available. It sounds like this is a very valuable tool for your school. Thanks for sharing!
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