Making Your Data Come Alive

iLead: Making Your Data Come Alive: Using Excel to Analyze, Process, and Present Your School's Performance Data

Overview
Title of Service / Program:	iLead: Making Your Data Come Alive: Using Excel to Analyze, Process, and Present Your School's Performance Data and ARIS Connect
Service Description:	The age of information is at the doorsteps of your school giving you unprecedented access to data that can guide your decision making and steer your school towards success. This workshop will give principals the tools to analyze, process, and create visuals for planning, decision making, and presentations.
Goals:	Participants will learn how to use Microsoft Excel to analyze, process, and create visual representations of data for use in presentations, planning meetings, and decision making.
Objectives:	To provide participants with the ability to create spreadsheets and charts from the ARIS school performance data for use in visual presentations and printed documents. Participants will learn how to customize their spreadsheets to display the pertinent information needed for decision making and planning.
Outcomes / Deliverables:	Participants will be able to -- import data into ARIS -- add and remove rows/columns, move data by cut/copy/paste, work with tabs, create rows and column headers, sort data -- format cells for different alignments, characters, and data type -- create simple formulas -- organize data through the use of tabs -- make your spreadsheet print-ready -- create charts: bar, graph, pie, etc: making titles, labels, legends, and footnotes -- import charts into PowerPoint
Level:	Beginner
Program Resources and Materials:	Workshop Blog with Agenda and Resources Excel Resources ileadworkspace
Follow-Up / Expectations:	Participants can use the workshop blog for follow up interaction, updates, and to contact an iLead support person.