Horseshoe Bend

Here in the Horseshoe Bend School District we are doing data-driven instruction in grades K-6. We realized that we didn't have a clear consistent through specific data. We were all working very hard, but we weren't really working in the same direction toward a common goal with really accurate data and information about our students. It causes to rethink everything that we did at the elementary and we made some pretty fundamental shifts. The things that work for us we're really being honest about data. Not taking it personally, you really look at it for the students sake teaching our curriculum to fidelity. We are really using that to drive the instruction and the intervention. It's not rocket science, I've heard it for years and I just had never seen it in action. I think it takes making sure you have the infrastructure to put in place.