Foreword / Deborah H. McDonald -- 1. Using Data to Align School Improvement -- 2. Why Bother to Get Engaged With Data? -- 3. The Status of Data Use (or Nonuse) -- 4. Arousing the Passion -- 5. So What's Significant? -- 6. It Matters How It Looks -- 7. Figuring Out What It Means -- 8. People, Passion, and Proof in Goal Setting -- 9. Digging Deeper -- 10. Planning Your Work and Working Your Plan -- 11. A Design for Data Day -- 12. Communicating About Data -- 13. Using Student Performance Data to Integrate District Curriculum Work With the School Improvement Process -- 14. Staying Off the Bandwagons.