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Data Talks: The Counselors’ Guide to Increasing Graduation Rates
Collaborative learning teams (CLTs) produce positive outcomes for students by capitalizing on the knowledge and skills of individual team members. This Data The Counselors’ Guide to Increasing Graduation Rates eBook adapts the CLT process made famous by Richard DuFour so that it can be used by school counselors to improve graduation rates.
The book is divided into three main parts. The first four chapters introduce counselors to collaborative learning purpose, critical questions, data sources, and operating guidelines. The remaining chapters provide a “how to” guide for creating and conducting the meetings that make up the plan-do-check-act cycle of the CLT process. Finally, the appendices provide step-by-step directions that counseling CLTs can use to organize the data sets referenced throughout the book.
With detailed explanations and real-world examples, Data Talks equips counselors with the guidance and tools to answer the four critical CLT questions related to on-time graduation.
1. What do we want students to achieve?
2. How do we know when they’ve achieved it?
3. What do we do when they follow their graduation plan?
4. What do we do when they don’t follow their graduation plan?
The book is divided into three main parts. The first four chapters introduce counselors to collaborative learning purpose, critical questions, data sources, and operating guidelines. The remaining chapters provide a “how to” guide for creating and conducting the meetings that make up the plan-do-check-act cycle of the CLT process. Finally, the appendices provide step-by-step directions that counseling CLTs can use to organize the data sets referenced throughout the book.
With detailed explanations and real-world examples, Data Talks equips counselors with the guidance and tools to answer the four critical CLT questions related to on-time graduation.
1. What do we want students to achieve?
2. How do we know when they’ve achieved it?
3. What do we do when they follow their graduation plan?
4. What do we do when they don’t follow their graduation plan?
195 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 16, 2025
About the author
Daria Williamson
2 books10 followersDaria is a personal strengths and leadership coach, based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She has extensive experience as a leader and manager in a variety of industries, and holds a Masters of Management and a Diploma in Positive Psychology and Wellbeing.
Daria's mission is to make the world a better place, one interaction at a time, by inspiring others to recognise their strengths and use them to bring their unique brand of magic to the world.
When not writing, coaching, or training, Daria is a staff member to two demanding rescue cats, and enjoys running, reading, and entertaining (or more accurately, feeding!) her friends and family.
Daria's mission is to make the world a better place, one interaction at a time, by inspiring others to recognise their strengths and use them to bring their unique brand of magic to the world.
When not writing, coaching, or training, Daria is a staff member to two demanding rescue cats, and enjoys running, reading, and entertaining (or more accurately, feeding!) her friends and family.
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