Midyear Mastery: From Data to Action

In this session, you’ll learn how to evaluate student progress using real-world school data, not perfect graphs. We’ll walk through how to align data systems with IEP/BIP goals, identify meaningful trends, and determine when instructional or behavioral changes are truly warranted. You’ll also learn strategies for preventing “data fatigue” across classrooms while still maintaining accuracy and accountability. By the end, you’ll have a progress-monitoring template you can start using immediately.

This session focuses on building practical, sustainable data systems that teachers and paraprofessionals can actually maintain. You’ll learn how to prioritize what to measure, embed data into natural classroom routines, and use prompts, visuals, and tech tools to improve fidelity. We’ll also cover how to coach staff to take accurate, consistent data, even on chaotic school days. You’ll leave with a classroom-ready data system and staff training plan.

Here you’ll learn how to translate progress-monitoring data into defensible IEP and BIP updates. We’ll review how to identify when revisions are warranted, summarize progress clearly, avoid ethical and legal pitfalls, and communicate updates effectively with teams. You’ll practice rewriting goals using sample data sets and leave with a structured, repeatable process for data-based decision-making and documentation.

This session teaches you how to strengthen staff performance through targeted training, coaching, and reinforcement systems. We’ll cover adult learning principles, feedback loops, fidelity monitoring, burnout prevention, and how to build tiered support structures that last. You’ll walk away with a supervision-ready training plan you can implement with paraprofessionals, teachers, and aides this semester.