The GRI Youth Education and Career Development Institute offers primary education for youth in grades K-8 coupling academic learning with social enterprise and career development. In short, we offer education, college and career services to youth. GRI operates a school designed to equip students with essential 21st century Science. Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) skills as well as sound foundational skills in reading and writing.
Included in the education plan are:
Academic Reading, Mathematics, English, Science, Social Studies
OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM: THE SATAD MODEL
What is the SATAD model?
SATAD model is a data driven method of improving student achievement through monthly progress reports. SATAD improves both student performance as well as the entire school system through goal setting, data analysis, and continuous process and teaching improvement. SATAD keeps students, teachers, parents, teams, and schools focused on the goals. SATAD provides the needed information to make decisions to improve results.
What does SATAD stand for? Standard=Assess=Teach=Assess=Data
The SATAD model is based on the innovations detailed in the “Five Temptations of a CEO” by Patrick Lencioni. Decisions should be informed by the past in consideration of the future, yet, guided firmly by the present reality.
Standard:
What the educators are trying to measure. State standards, the grade level, academic content, expectations, individual goals, grade level goals, classroom goals, school goals
Assess:
This first assessment step informs the school and teachers where the student is based on the standards, grade level, academic content, expectation, and goals. Schools administer a pre-assessment using a standardized instrument to evaluate each student’s level of academic proficiency and learning need. The data from this pre-assessment will create a base-line profile used to establish learning goals, essential curriculum adoption, and revisions for a more improved instruction methodology using individualized Student Learning Plan.
Teach:
Teachers use data to drive instruction. What do I teach? How do I deliver instruction? one to one, small group, whole class, and hands on activity
Assess: (as often as needed)
Teachers continue to assess what is taught to show mastery of goals and standards on a monthly basis. Assessing after instruction provides data to show progress or raise awareness of struggles.
Teachers then decide the next step: more practice as new learning approaches are being discovered.
Data:
Data drives the instruction is ensure mastery of necessary skills based on standards, individual, grade level, classroom, and school goals.
Data is presented as Monthly Progress reports. Data is not limited to only academics. SATAD can be used for other school metrics such as attendance, discipline and other expectations for the purpose of improving the entire school climate. Improving Student Achievement Through Monthly Progress Report Using Standard=Assess=Teach=Assess=Data (SATAD) Model.
The Role of Data Driven Education
The role of data driven decision making is vital not only to improve individual student academic performance, but, as a tool to continuously improve the entire school system. For in the end, “What gets measured gets done,” simply meaning that regular measurement and reporting keeps individuals, teams, and organizations focused — primarily because this information is used to make decisions to improve results.
The Standard=Assess=Teach=Assess=Data (SATAD) Model is based on the innovations detailed in the “Five Temptations of a CEO” by Patrick Lencioni, reflective of real world experience. The premise is that decisions should be informed by the past in consideration of the future, yet, guided firmly by the present reality. SATAD offers a unique methodology for gathering data and information to help in assessing, planning, and implementing educational strategies to respond to and address students' needs for effective rigorous instruction, healthy classrooms supporting learning and retention, and to support a school culture and climate that fosters high student performance.
The critical aspect of implementing SATAD in schools is the adaptation of the MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT method that helps school in acquiring data for the purpose of improving the entire school’s metrics in areas such as academics, attendance, discipline and other expectations. SATAD is structured to show incremental progress based on established SMART academic goals and anticipated achieved metrics on a monthly basis. Individual assessment of student's level of performance to establish baseline data is the core strength of SATAD. For example, schools will administer a pre-enrollment assessment using a standardized instrument to evaluate each student’s level of academic proficiency and learning needs. Data collected at this point will be used to create a baseline benchmark for all students compared with the appropriate and anticipated academic standard attainment, as well as to provide insights into the levels of proficiencies and learning gaps. This serves as the basis for establishing learning goals, essential curriculum adoption, and revisions for a more improved instruction methodology.
The delivery point centers on students, teachers, families, schools, and sponsors to be informed of the progress and potential challenges identified monthly. The level of the learning community participation in these procedures is important as identified weaknesses or strengths based on the data collected will be utilized to produce optimum results and the desired learning expectations/outcomes for students and the entire learning community.
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