Parent/Teacher Courses

Welcome to From Scores to Strategy!
You gave the diagnostic. You have the scores.
Now comes the question that matters:
What do you actually teach next?
This course will help you move beyond an overall percentage and use the evidence you already have to make practical instructional decisions.
You'll learn how to:
Identify the skills that actually need attention.
Decide what belongs in whole-class instruction, small groups, intervention, or extension.
Investigate whether a wrong answer represents a skill gap or whether something else may be interfering.
Build focused reteach lessons without starting over.
Check whether your reteach worked.
Regroup students based on new evidence.
Track growth using work you're already doing.
This is not a complicated data system.
It's a decision-making system designed to help you answer:
What do my students need—and what am I going to do about it?
Keep your From Scores to Strategy Workbook nearby. You'll use it throughout the course.



Lesson 1: How to Use This Course

Welcome — From Scores to Strategy

Lesson 2: Stop Teaching the Percentage

Lesson 3: Find the Patterns That Matter

Lesson 4: Same Score, Different Need

Module 1 — Read the Data Differently

Lesson 5: Decide What Matters First

Lesson 6: Whole Class, Small Group, Intervention, or Extension?

Lesson 7: Turn Your Decisions Into a Plan

Module 2 — Turn Data Into Instruction

Lesson 8: A Wrong Answer Is Evidence—Not an Explanation

Lesson 9: Recognize When Something Else May Be Interfering

Lesson 10: Use the One-Change Check

Module 3 — Skill Gap or Access Barrier?

Lesson 11: Find Exactly What Needs Reteaching

Lesson 12: Different Support. Same Target.

Lesson 13: Build a 10–12 Minute Targeted Reteach

Module 4 — Reteach the Skill, Not the Whole Lesson

Lesson 14: Did the Reteach Work?

Lesson 15: Investigate Before You Intensify

Lesson 16: Listen Before You Correct

Lesson 17: Regroup From the New Evidence

Module 5 — Recheck, Regroup & Respond

Lesson 18: Monday — Respond to the Widespread Need

Lesson 19: Tuesday — Build Targeted Stations

Lesson 20: Wednesday–Friday — Get Back to Your Curriculum

Module 6 — Build Your Classroom Response Plan

Lesson 21: Get Two-for-One From Weekly Assessment

Lesson 22: Track the Question and Name the Skill

Lesson 23: Watch the Pattern

Lesson 24: Build a Simple Skill Tracker

Lesson 25: Close the Loop

Module 7 — Track the Skills, Not Just the Scores

FINAL LESSON: From Scores to Strategy

Research & Professional Foundations

Final Assessment: From Scores to Strategy

Final Lesson — Let's Build Your Plan

From Scores to Strategy: Turn Middle School ELA Diagnostic Data Into a Teaching Plan

From Scores to Strategy: Turn Middle School ELA Diagnostic Data Into a Teaching Plan

Debra Shepherd

Course content

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