Putting Faces on the Data: What Great Leaders Do! By Lyn Sharratt and Michael Fullan

We asked over 500 teachers, “Why should we put FACES on data?” What matters to most teachers is their children, their humanity—what we have called their FACES and what lies behind them. One teacher said playfully, “Because they are so damned cute.” True enough for kindergarten, but overall our answer is “because it is so damned important.” You need to care for students, but you also need to help them get better in the one thing that can serve them for life—their day-to-day learning.