there is an increasing availability of data at the municipal school and individual student levels to use for different actors when setting goals and monitoring progress toward the achievement of these goals and in several school and municipality visits the team heard of trips that principals and municipal leaders had made to various jurisdictions around the world to leam from the experiences of professionals further along with the use of such data to support instruction municipal leaders and school leaders also reported that these visits focused on using data to increase the efficient use of resources to support their improvement efforts this section addresses the challenges and opportunities created by each of these changes in turn one of the most fundamental changes is the introduction of a set of common objectives which focus on student learning