Kaivalya Education Foundation

Utilizing data to improve teacher professional development presupposes a need to know how it can serve people in the education delivery system. In Gujarat, India progress is steered by using data to build personal agency and integrate actionable evaluation for improvement. The shift in the system, however, manifests from the core: the administrators, principals, and teachers. These individuals are leveraging data to improve their contribution to the system, and in the process, improving the system as a whole. The data that flow between these different levels are meaningful, easy to understand and use. The data are used in different ways, district administrators use them to hone their teacher training programming, principals use them to differentiate their support by teacher needs, and teachers use them for self-reflection and improving the quality of education in their classrooms. Previously siloed levels of the education system are connecting through the shared goals of professional and personal growth. And as a consequence, the Teacher Professional Development system is moving toward a person-centric focus, and moving away from a data-centric focused one.