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Welcome to the Collegial Inquiry Team Wiki!

__**Between now and the meeting on May 8th**__, you will be bringing your data collection to a close and working on analyzing your findings. At the final meeting, we will spend part of the time completing the final project piece. (The format for reporting out will be whatever works best for you. The template for the information to include is attached here: [|Reporting out template.pdf]) Then we will share how our projects turned out and/or where we would like to see them move in the future. After that, it’s surveys, cpdus, and celebration of success!

** __Data Analysis:__ Some helpful tips/questions to consider as you are looking for trends and themes in your data **

 * Step 1 ** : Look at all your data to get a descriptive sense of what you have going on.

-What sort of things are happening in my data? -What do I notice? -How might different pieces of data fit together? -What pieces of my data stand out from the rest? -What themes emerged? - Of these themes, which is most important?
 * Step 2: ** Read data and ask questions such as:

-chronologically? -by category? -by groups? What was your initial question and how do these patterns inform it? What is happening in each pattern and across patterns?
 * Step 3: ** Think about how it makes best sense to organize your data:

-What have you learned about yourself? -Your students? - What impact does this have for your learning?
 * Step 4: ** Think about the implications your data will have in your classroom.

Steps adapted from The Reflective Educator’s Guide to Professional Development: Coach inquiry-oriented Learning communities (Fichtman Dana and Yendol-Hoppey)

***February 21st whole group discussion topic, "Introduction to Data Analysis."** **We will be meeting from 3-5 in the lounge at the MEC.**

**January Tasks:**
1. Follow the action steps and continue to gather the data that your team has outlined on your calendar. As you add to or revise your calendar, please remember to keep it updated so that your team's process is well documented. The process or "means" is just as, or more important than the "ends" in terms of our learning.

2. At our February session, we will be asking groups to share with the rest of the group how your projects are going so far. Be thinking about what's going well, what you might want group input on, what has been a challenge, what has made you proud and how you would generally describe what it is that your team is doing.

December Tasks:
1. Make sure the most current version of your inquiries and rationale are posted on your page. 2. If you haven't already done so, post your team's **Creating a Vision for Success** (found under "Planning Resources"). 3. Post **"Matching Data to Inquiries"** and "**Calendar"** (found under "Implementation Resources"). 4. Turn in **December Reflection.**

November Tasks:
1. Post your **focus**, **inquiry questions** and **rationale** on your team's wiki page (suggested tools can be found under "Planning Resources"). 2. Post your team's **Creating a Vision for Success** (found under "Planning Resources"). 3. Update and post your team's **Planning Outline** (found under "Meeting Resources"). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Download and complete **November Reflection #2** (found under "Reflections").

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Bring I.T.on!**

 * Get important announcements.
 * Communicate with your Inquiry Team.
 * Find and download planning, implementation & analysis/reflection resources.
 * Upload agendas, materials and notes.
 * See what other teams are doing.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TIPS FOR UPLOADING AND SAVING PDF FILES TO YOUR PAGE:

 * 1) Before uploading a file, save it on your laptop as a pdf (Go to Print, **Save as pdf**).
 * 2) On wiki page, select __**File**__
 * 3) Select __**Upload Files**__, and select your pdf file
 * 4) Next to "Click to" change it from Embed file to __**Link to File**__
 * 5) Finally, select your file. Then __**Save**.__

Follow steps 2-5 for all other files.