Data in schools can feel like a weapon or a waste of time, especially when it touches student behavior. Ed tech founder Julian Golder, co-founder of Emote Education, joins Heather to reframe classroom and systems data collection as something that protects kids and staff instead of scrutinizing them. They talk about why data conversations put practitioners on the defensive, how baking data directly into daily practice changes that dynamic, and why behavior can't be read outside of context.
You'll hear how one school traced a spike in office referrals back to snowplowed-in recess yards in about thirty seconds of looking at the right data, and walk away with a simple sticky-note exercise for noticing what your own data isn't showing you yet.
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