Thought-provoking ideas
on using data
People without information
cannot act.
People with information
cannot help but act.
Ken Blanchard
Its hard to begin to move
when you don’t know where
you are moving, how to
move, or if you are going to
get there.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new
landscapes, but in seeing
with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Data can help us replace
hunches and hypotheses
with facts concerning what
changes are needed.
Victoria Bernhardt
Without continual growth
and progress, such words as
improvement, achievement,
and success have no
meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
If you know why, you can
figure out how…
W. Edwards Deming
Disaggregation is not a
problem-solving strategy. It
is a problem-finding strategy.
Generative learning (i.e.
expanding your ability to
create) occurs only when
people are striving to
accomplish something that
matters deeply to them.
Peter Senge
Without continual growth
and progress, such words as
improvement, achievement,
and success have no
meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Be hungry for data about
your school.
Rick DuFour
People who use data to
make decisions will do so
with more confidence that
they are making the right
decisions.
Deborah Wahlstrom
Data can help us answer the
question for our community:
“What are we getting for our
investment in our children?”
Victoria Bernhardt