Principal School District of Philadelphia, Fanny Jackson Coppin School Perkasie, Pennsylvania, United States
This roundtable explores how educators can use growth data to accelerate students performing at or above benchmark levels. While these students are often seen as already successful, the session highlights that even "Advanced" learners have room to grow. Educators will learn how to use data to help students set and monitor their own meaningful goals, ensuring continued progress. The session also addresses common misconceptions about growth data, showing its value as a sensitive, long-term measure of student development. Participants will walk away with actionable strategies to prevent regression and promote continuous growth for all learners, including high achievers. Participants leave with an understanding of how to engage students in analyzing their growth data and setting reasonable goals.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn how to analyze student data profiles to identify growth trends and guide goal-setting with students. The session emphasizes that proficient or advanced labels are not the finish line, high-performing students also need continued academic challenge.
Educators will explore how to create specific, measurable goals that students can track and reflect on. By building a data narrative from multiple sources, participants will gain strategies to accelerate learning and prevent academic stagnation.
Participants will leave with a clear understanding that growth is about progress over time, and even advanced students need intentional planning to sustain year-to-year development.
