Section	Step (Select from the links below)
Establish a school improvement team
	What is a school improvement team?
	How do we establish a school improvement team?
	Who is on our team? What do we do?
	How does the school improvement team make time to do its work?
Develop a hypothesis
	What information does our school or district need to make decisions that will improve student achievement?
	How is our school doing compared to the standard?
Gather data to assess needs
	What are the most useful sources of student data?
	Why use multiple measures?
	What are the most useful sources of direct student achievement data?
	What are the most useful sources of indirect student achievement data?
	What are the most useful sources of subgroup student achievement data?
	What are the most useful sources of demographic data?
	How do context variables impact the validity of our interpretation?
	What do we have? What do we need?
Use data
	How do we organize the data to help us answer important questions?
	What do different sources tell us?
	What do different displays tell us?
	How do we display the data?
	What patterns exist in the data?
	How do we present data to the school and examine it?
	What are the tests designed to measure?
	Is there confirmation across data?
	How should we present data and conclusions to the school community?
	How do we formulate data-based goals?
	Does our interpretation raise new questions?
	What is our level of confidence in our interpretation?
Develop a data-based plan
	What must be considered when setting data-based goals?
	How do we set data-based goals?
	How can additional data help us identify the interventions we need?
	How do we select interventions?
	How do we select interventions for targeted subgroups?
	How do we plan to include parents in interventions?
	What staff development and support are necessary?
	How does our plan impact our budget?
	What is our time line? What assignments are necessary?
Monitor progress and document success
	How do we monitor implementation of the plan?
	How do we use data to monitor progress toward our goals?
	How do we know if we made the right decisions?
	How do we use data to document success in meeting goals?
	What should we report to the public?