This from our Alisa is the best way to look at data collection and admin requests that I have yet seen, and we have hundreds of articles on this topic here on the PLC. This is the way to do it:
The more we can assuage teacher and admin anxiety, by providing documentation: rubrics, can-do’s assessments, growth over time, charts, portfolios, video, even HF word lists, whatever paperwork they crave – snow ’em with it! The more confident they will feel that we are ‘on top of it.’ It is a pathetic sham, but it allows some T’s to continue teaching using research-aligned strategies who might not otherwise feel empowered to do it….
Many of us have tried the honest route of educating our admins and parents, and for some of us, it has (so far) worked! I for one can’t say whether I’d have the energy to struggle against a skeptical system all day every day, year after year….