McKee’s Data Inquiry

Team

Phase One
Fall, 2008
 Our Team
• Jeffrey Pederson

Stephanie Malvasio
• Barry Jacobs
• Rita Kelly

Lou Lucci 
• Steve Chandler
• Juanita Ruano

Jim Barbieri
• Katherine Kish         
• Joseph O’Brien    and 

Sharon Henry, Principal
 The McKee Model

• Centers Upon our Data Team 
Members Providing Direct 
Instruction, Analysis and Feedback 
For Our Target Populations

Frank Discussions Regarding 
Student Progress and Trends

• Review of Individual (Low Inference 
Student Observations) and Whole 
Class Learning Environments 
(Environmental Walk Thrus) to 
Identify Levers to Improve 
Interdisciplinary Student Progress
 The Metaphor of the
Lighthouse
• Our Mission This Year
is to Identify the
Outliers Preventing
Student Success

Identify Trends in
Instruction

• Improvement of
Student Performance
on Assessment and
Understanding of
Core, Fundamental
Skills
 Our Three Ships

• Struggling Mid Level Two’s

Special Education Collaborative 
Team Teaching Students

• Our ELLs 

Identified Using Data from Past 
Qualitative and Quantitative 
Academic Performance,  
Attendance, and Suspension 
Record
 Struggling  or Mid Level Two’s

• Identified Using Data 
from Past Qualitative 
and Quantitative 
Academic 
Performance,  
Attendance, and 
Suspension Record

• The Average McKee 
Student
 Special Education

Identified using data 
from Past 
RCT/Regents, 
Attendance, 
Suspension Record, 
IEP’s, and Past 
Academic 
Performance
Our Spanish Speaking ELLs

Identified using data

compiled from
NYSESLAT,
Attendance,
Suspension Record,
Past Academic
Performance
 Performance Range

• 74 or Lower on 
Regents and 
Classroom Exams

Level 2’s

• Strong Attendance

• NYSESLAT Failure

• IEP in CTT Setting
ITT Tool as a Weathervane

• Use of Student
Deciles to Forecast

• The Search for

“Outliers” or trends
found within the data
 Target Population Goals

• Mastery of Regents­ 
Based, Chart and 
Graph Related Essays

• Improvement of 
Reading 
Comprehension, 
Multiple Choice 
Strategies and 
Techniques
The Use of Periodic Assessments 
as Baseline Measurement

• Performance Series

PSAT

• Acuity
 Tools

• Performance Series

Acuity

• Low Inference Student Observations

• Report Cards

Class Tests

• Exit Cards

Plato Online
 Learning Targets

• Vocabulary
Acquisition

Reading
Comprehension

• Active Use of Charts

and Graphs

Essay Task
Completion
 Next Steps

• Reestablishment of 
Short­Term Goals

Retesting of Student 
Skills Using 
Performance Series 

• Phase Two: 
Examination of 
McKee’s Conditions of 
Learning
Thank You
Thank You