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John Hollingsworth
is the President and co-founder of DataWORKS Educational Research.
His company was founded to use real data to improve student achievement.
DataWORKS started out providing analysis and disaggregations of STAR test results for over
600 schools per year.
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Mr. Hollingsworth realized that analyzing student test scores did not always lead to
improved student achievement. He began to ask himself, do you raise test scores by
testing students or by teaching them? He then shifted DataWORKS into a relentless focus
on improving how students are taught.
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Mr. Hollingsworth was instrumental in developing Curriculum Calibration®, the
process of collecting and analyzing student work for alignment to state
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standards. DataWORKS has collected and analyzed over 2 million assignments from 48,000 classrooms
revealing that many students, especially low income students, are being taught two to four
grades below grade level preventing them from doing well on grade-level state tests.
Curriculum Calibration® has been completed at hundreds of schools in California,
in Washington DC, and over 800 schools in South Carolina.
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Dr. Silvia Ybarra
began her career in education as a physics and chemistry teacher at
Roosevelt High School in Fresno. Her grant writing efforts were instrumental in the
school being awarded a $4,000,000 grant to develop a laboratory school, with her as director,
with the goal of increasing student achievement. She next became principal of Wilson Middle
School in Exeter, which under her leadership became a prestigious Blue Ribbon School.
Silvia was then named Assistant Superintendent of Coalinga-Huron School District.
Her focus progressed from helping one classroom to helping one school to helping an
entire district.
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Silvia’s desire to do even more led her to co-found DataWORKS Educational Research with
the single focus of improving how students are taught,
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especially students from low income families. She believes the solution for
poverty is to educate low income students to turn them into high income
wage earners. Through Silvia’s commitment and strong work, the company expanded to 50 employees
working with teachers across the United States including California, Washington DC, Arizona, Alabama,
Texas, Arkansas, and South Carolina.
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