Classroom Data Walls

Classroom data walls are an excellent strategy for recognizing student growth and promoting learning for students. All students should have goals for their learning, and classroom data walls provide a way for teachers to showcase their students' progress prominently. It is an expectation that every Lyon Academy classroom have a functioning, updated data wall.

Some criteria/suggestions to consider when creating your data wall include:

• The data wall presents a snapshot of how students are doing as a class or individually 
• The data wall is regularly updated
• The data wall may be created/maintained by the students as data as added
• The data wall should be geared towards students and be student-friendly
• The data wall should encourage action and responsibility by the student, without publicly embarrassing students

The following blog post is a great website that provides more information about using data walls in the classroom: https://www.whatihavelearnedteaching.com/6-ways-to-use-data-walls-effectively/ 

Take a look at several outstanding examples of data walls from around Lyon classrooms across a variety of grade levels. As you update your classroom data wall, send a picture of the wall to Tyler.Archer@slps.org and it will be included!

Ms. Wolfenden adds stripes to bumble bees each time a student makes a month of STAR Reading growth. 

Ms. Archer posts a star for every student showing growth on the STAR Math assessment. 

Ms. Smith posts the names and growth of her students after each STAR Reading assessment cycle. 

Ms. Pocost displays the students in her classes, by homeroom, that demonstrated 80% mastery on objectives. 

Ms. Archer uses a sticker chart to track student mastery of multiplication tables. 

Ms. Salmo's students move their individual markers along the reading level tracker board in her classroom. 

Ms. Connell adds a flower petal to each student as they grow according to Fountas and Pinnell assessments. 

Ms. Andrews tracks students' STAR Reading & Math growth, along with their point tracker progress. 

Ms. Walker and Ms. Stuckel keep track of the skills that students are able to do using an easy to read sticker chart. 

Mr. Craig tracks students' progress on the PACER assessment in P.E. 

Ms. Richardson keeps track of her students' STAR Reading growth by using fish and adding stickers when students show growth. 

Ms. Trapp gives students a sticker on their chart when they show growth from one STAR Reading assessment to the next. 

Both Mrs. Williams-Alberty and Ms. Benjamin maintain a tracker that indicates when students show growth according to STAR Reading. 

The K-2 Team posts their STAR Reading and STAR Math data in their hallway as a way of showing the students' performance across each grade level.