Data-Driven Dialogue: A Facilitator's Guide
to Collaborative Inquiry
By Bruce Wellman and Laura Lipton
This timely book offers school leaders a practical
toolkit for structuring and facilitating
collaborative inquiry with and about data.
This resource presents a three-phase model that
supports groups in discovering assumptions,
promotes data-focused investigations and
develops shared understandings of both problems
and possible solutions. Readers will increase
their confidence and skill in facilitating
data-driven dialogue by applying these
easy-to-follow directions for tools and techniques.
Blackline masters, relevant resources, print and
on-line references increase the usability and value
of this book. This is the guide for educators
committed to data-driven planning processes
that develop shared responsibility for
continuous improvements in student learning.
Sherman, CT: MiraVia, LLC, Copyright 2004,
Softcover, 200 pages, ISBN 0-9665022-3-x
