AI School Leadership Minute: Find Patterns in Your Student Data

AI School Leadership Minute: Find Patterns in Your Student Data
Use AI to turn student performance data into clear action for next year. Follow the steps below to find the three most important patterns buried in your end-of-year data.

Step 1: Upload your data to ChatGPT.
- Go to ChatGPT
- Press the “+” icon in the bottom left corner of the prompt bar
- Click "Upload from computer" and select your Excel file
- Never share students’ personally identifiable information (such as name, student ID, date of birth, etc.) with ChatGPT. If you don’t need to identify individual students from the data, delete all columns with personal details from your data before using it. If you need to track specific students, here is a video tutorial on how you can do this while following student data privacy laws.

Step 2: Paste this prompt in ChatGPT and send it through:
“Act as a school data analyst. Identify the three most important patterns in the attached student performance dataset. Focus only on patterns that have a high impact on student achievement and are actionable for school leadership. Present your analysis in three sections:
1) Key Pattern (Short headline)
2) What the data shows (1–2 sentences)
3) What we should do about it (concrete steps)
Here is some context you need to know:
- The school year just ended. We are planning for next year now.
- Our leadership team has limited time and must focus on what will move the needle most.
- [Paste anything else needed here: goals, recent changes, school size, priorities, etc.]”

Use this instead of spending days staring at spreadsheets.

To clear insights and confident decisions,
William Grube
Founder, Gruvy Education

PS - Want more ideas on how you can use AI for data analysis? Here are 8 of them.

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