District and school leaders often know where students are struggling, but not where the gap actually begins or how it develops over time. In this webinar, participants will see why triangulating multiple sources of evidence is essential to answering those deeper questions. An Opportunity Gap Analysis helps leaders trace a challenge back to its source, see how it is affecting students across the system, and uncover what is allowing it to persist.
Using the Juniper Vale case study, participants will experience the OGA process in action from beginning to end. They will see how seemingly disconnected evidence comes together to tell a much more powerful story about what is driving current outcomes and where leaders have the greatest opportunity to intervene. Most importantly, participants will see how the analysis leads to specific recommendations for immediate triage and longer-term system change, helping districts address urgent needs today while building the conditions that prevent opportunity gaps from continuing into the future.
Objectives
- Understand the power of triangulation and how connecting multiple sources of evidence reveals a story that individual data points cannot tell on their own.
- Explore how an Opportunity Gap Analysis moves beyond identifying who is struggling to uncover the underlying factors shaping student outcomes and pinpoint where intervention can have the greatest impact.
- See how OGA findings become an actionable roadmap, providing recommendations to address immediate needs while guiding the longer-term changes necessary to reduce and ultimately prevent persistent opportunity gaps.