Follow-up and coaching activities are designed to ensure implementation. Evaluation data bases are aligned with objectives. Appropriate milestones are included which could lead to modifications of the plan if needed. TOP Allow sufficient time for a deep and rich understanding of the data before improvement strategies are decided upon by team members. Data by itself have no meaning.
Data are merely pieces of information.
Individuals and groups must create meaning by organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data. The school context and the prior experiences of team members are powerful influences on the meanings that team members derive from the data that are collected. A deep and rich understanding should precede planning. When confronted with data, individual and groups tend to want to assign causality too soon and determine possible solutions without clear problem definition. They tend to seek the comfort of action rather than the discomfort of ambiguity.