Its Been Awhile

It has been awhile since I’ve blogged, but I’m happy to report that all is going well with my research. The teachers are working harder than ever to attempt to get our STAAR scores up in our sub populations. Have I mentioned that we almost every sub pop represented at our school??? Yea, makes for a hard job. Anyhow, as we move towards the testing season I have started looking at this year’s Walk-though data (which is designed to follow Marazono’s high-yielding instructional strategies) with last year’s WT data. I’m seeing some good things, but I’m still having trouble locating research that is directly related to African American and Hispanic students. Most of the research is qualitative vs. quantitative making it hard to track its progress without using my own opinion or someone else’s estimation. I’m not saying that qualitative is bad, but knowing my audience…qualitative will get me more teacher buy-in. If you have some insight/research please, hook me up!