How Teachers Can Use Multiple Sources of Student Data for Decision-Making (with Graciela Flores)

In this episode, I got to hang out with Graciela Flores who is a teacher, content creator, and one of the first teachers I talked to while researching for The K–12 Educator’s Guidebook.

Do you ever wish someone with lots of experience in the classroom would open up their bag of tricks and talk about how they work? If that’s you, you’ll want to settle in and check this out. It’s like a mini-workshop on dual immersion instruction. It’s also a mini-workshop on practical data use, whether you teach in a dual immersion classroom or not. 

In This Episode:

• The beauty of learning more than one language
• An explainer of dual immersion programs
• Examples of what data Graciela looks at and how she uses it
• How Gracie uses reporting + observations + conversations to understand her students’ thinking and plan her teaching

Links

• Graciela Flores on Instagram
• “But when construed not as a means of ending conversations but starting them, using data and research can have exponential value.” Link to Source
• Dual Immersion 
• Graciela teaching acentuación with a song
• Graciela on Teachers Pay Teachers
• Contact Graciela for consultation
• Association of Two-Way & Dual Language Education (ATDLE)
• Farmer and the Seahorse
• If you're reading The K-12 Educator's Data Guidebook, this episode goes great with chapter 10 “Practical is Personal”
• Sign up for Ryan’s email list and get 20 percent off The K-12 Educator's Data Guidebook
• Visit my website and get Data Resources and More for K–12 Educators
• Music by Pglet on Blue Dot Sessions