Street Data - Chapter 1
A next-generation model that centers human experience and lived realities to drive equity in education.
What is Street Data?
The chapter that explores common barriers to equity work and misconceptions about educational change.
What is Chapter 2: No Shortcut?
The concept introduced in Chapter 3 that challenges traditional data dashboards.
What is flipping the dashboard?
This term describes data that exists in everyday interactions, not just formal assessments.
What are lived experiences?
Eric Chou is this student's favorite artist.
Who is Gloria?
The chapter that argues for reimagining how we know, learn, and measure success.
What is Chapter 1: Leading for Equity?
A trap where educators rely on surface solutions or “quick fixes” without shifting systems.
What is an equity trap?
The type of data that focuses on lived experiences rather than numeric scores.
What is qualitative data? (specifically street data)
A major theme across Chapters 1–3 that redefines “who counts” in educational change.
What is centering marginalized voices?
This student is placed at a project based learning school site.
Who is Teddy?
The guiding principle of Chapter 1 that calls for seeing learning and knowledge as holistic.
What is holism?
This is described as the capacity to recognize barriers and imagine what’s possible.
What is awareness?
The core stance that underpins the idea of flipping the dashboard.
What is antiracism?
The reason the authors argue traditional dashboards miss the complete picture of learning.
What is because they overlook context and human experience?
This student is placed in a 6th grade history classroom this semester.
Who is Brenda?
The kind of stance required to reshape how schools engage with data and community voices.
What is an antiracist stance?
A term for well-intended but insufficient efforts like standalone equity trainings.
What are equity tropes?
This is the primary goal of flipping the dashboard with street data.
What is to drive equity?
The kind of listening that is essential for gathering street data.
What is deep listening?
This student is a current intern.
Who is Joselyne?
This is something the authors insist data should be—centered on the voices of those most marginalized.
What does it mean to center voices from the margins?
The underlying dynamic that often undermines equity work by focusing only on outcomes like test scores.
What is a deficit mindset? (or What is focusing on traditional big data?)
These are the voices street data seeks to elevate that are often hidden by classic measures.
Who are students, families, and educators at the margins?
This mindset shift moves educators from fixing deficits to seeing student brilliance.
What is an asset-based mindset?
This student is placed at Stauffer MS teaching Math.
Who is Nathan?