Wisconsin Set To Implement Data-Driven Student Intervention Program

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (3/29, Hetzner) reports that "for a full hour," third-grade students at Green Tree Elementary School in West Bend, Wisconsin, will participate in "intervention time," in which they "will sit side by side with peers they may have never met and learn from a teacher they may not have had, focusing on improving their vocabulary skills. The results will be displayed on the school's 'data walls,' bulletin boards that line the hallways." The piece notes that "improvements in technology and a growing awareness of how to use test data to improve teaching are inspiring schools such as Green Tree to take a more clinical approach. Soon such methods could be all but mandatory for Wisconsin's public schools."