Why I chose this:
Interested to see what services other co-ops are offering. (Note: I didn't realize this was an ed-fi session. We use ed-fi in Arkansas already, but it was neat to see what other states are doing)
What we covered:
Think of education as an enterprise: state, regions, local districts, students/parents
Information flows among stakeholders
Issues:
- Inaccurate or inconsistent data
- Various data formats
- Securely transferring data
- Timeliness of data
- Prone to breaking
- Need for actionable data
Michigan legislature awarded $1mil for data integration
- Integrate disparate SIS data into a common infrastructure
- Develop standardized systems to move to fewer SIS systems
- Transition to a statewide SIS program
- Build on work being done 'at scale' in other states.
- Explain how it would interface with a "classroom readiness" project
Vision: Common Data, Common Solutions
Solution based on NCES data standards
ed-fi alliance
Data standards
Data store
ed-fi dashboards
ed-fi tools
ed-fi data warehouse
Dashboards
Interventions
Student record movement
AR did watch lists for students with automated scheduling
Data is stored/housed at state/region level. Ed-fi does not store/house data.
Michigan built a cockpit to allow stakeholders to move data between applications using ed-fi
(gave a demo of their cockpit system - easy interface for connecting sites to data systems)
(gave a demo of the dashboards)
