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Today we had a record keeping day.   I spent the majority of my day inputing and sorting data for our pre-assessments for unit three of math, number sense.  I know the most about excel in our team and so a project that would have taken days I was able to complete within a few hours.   Originally we had planned to just look at the assessment scores, but then we wanted to look at ORA scores as well.   Finally , we noticed which specific questions students struggled with was important to our data, so I made a spreadsheet in which we marked which questions each student got incorrect.   I then sorted the data by ORA score and again by the pre-assessment score.  This showed the students in order for how we wanted to break down the classes.   The other teachers are still baffled at how I got the list generated.  It was nice to feel like I had something to offer to the group that would save everyone a lot of time and energy.

We ended up using the data to sort kids with 10-12 on the assessment and an ORA about 190 into our first high group.  The second group scored between 10-12 with an ORA above 150.   We then double checked to make sure each individual teacher was comfortable with where their students were placed.   With our groups organized, we are ready to begin our differentiated math unit on Friday!