Nebraska’s Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) Grant

Dr. Dean Folkers & Matt HastingsNebraska Department of EducationESU 2 Principal’s MeetingESU 2 – Fremont, NEMarch 5, 2014

Grant Overview•Title: Nebraska Data Analysis and

Research•Start Date: 07/01/2012•End Date: 06/30/2015•Amount Awarded: $4,361,524•Project Director: Dr. Dean Folkers•Project Manager: Matt Hastings

Grant Overview•Major outcomes:

1. Data Analysis and Reporting Tool (Dashboard)

2. Professional Development for Data Analysis (Data Cadre)

3. NDE Research and Evaluation Operation4. SLDS Sustainability

Goal 1. – Data Dashboard•DART – AKA “Data Dashboard”

▫Adopted the Ed-Fi Solution▫Utilizes Nebraska data to address Nebraska’s… Individual student needs measure student progress, and refine action plans throughout the school

year▫Optional tool for district use

What is a Dashboard?•Rooted in the concepts of business

intelligence (BI)•For our purposes, we introduce the concept

of education intelligence (EI)▫Transform data into knowledge to promote

informed educational decision-making▫4 Steps of the EI Cycle:

Accurate Answers Valuable Insights On-time Information Actionable Conclusions

Demographic

Assessments

At Risk, SPED,

Intervention

Grades, Behavior, Other

Teachers

Single Pane of Glass

Comprehensive Data

Behavioral

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Administration

Storage

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Local Assessments

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SPED

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These are real words that will not cause any red squiggly lines in the automatic spell checker programSometimes I say to myself, self what are you doing?

These are real words that will not cause any red squiggly lines in the automatic spell checker programSometimes I say to myself, self what are you doing?

These are real words that will not cause any red squiggly lines in the automatic spell checker programSometimes I say to myself, self what are you doing?

Our Vision: Unlocking the data silos

Unlocking Data SilosIssues/Challenges Proposed Solutions

• Multiple data stores/data warehouses for different purposes

• Systems of record span multiple proprietary systems

• No standard way to access data across systems

• Inconsistencies and latencies in data across systems

• Silos prevent application interoperability

• Provide a more robust end-to-end data infrastructure based upon the Ed-Fi standard

• Unify data from multiple systems of record into a single operational data store

• Support BI and analysis through a robust data warehouse

• Provide open standard (Ed-Fi) API for applications

Dashboard Pilot DistrictsMcCookNeligh-OakdaleOmaha

Ponca South Sioux CityValentine

Bancroft RosalieBoone CentralFairbury

The Ed-Fi CommunityTotal US students49.5M

Total US teachers

3.1M

18.2M (37%) students1.2M (38%) teachersLicense footprint as of Dec 2013

Licensed

In licensing discussions, not included in numbers

Project Plan• Use the Ed-Fi data standard to automatically pull and

integrate data from state and district systems

• Customize the dashboards to reflect Nebraska priorities, policies, assessments, and processes

• Prove the dashboards and implementation process in a set of pilots

Pilot with Select Districts

Develop ETL/ Interfaces

Customize Dashboards

CustomizeWireframes

Ongoing Project Management

StakeholderEngagement

sAnalyze Data

Sources

Unify Data Requirement

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Scope &Project

Plan

Goal 2. Data Cadre• Collaborative model between NDE, ESUCC, and

local ESUs • Data Cadre development group composed of

▫Eight professional developers from ESUs▫Five NDE Representatives

• Centered around the use of data for continuous school improvement

• Focus on the analysis of data to inform professional development, instructional practices, evaluation processes and school improvement

• Data Literacies

Goal 3. Research & Evaluation

•Develop plan for collaboration with Nebraska stakeholders to answer questions of substantive interest to the education community▫Implement collaboration plan

•Disseminate findings from original research and evaluation projects conducted by NDE

•Methodological research aimed at quantifying and enhancing data quality▫Continuous quality improvement process

Goal 4. Sustainability•Develop data governance plan•Data dictionary aligned with Common

Education Data Standards (CEDS)▫Metadata structures

•Interstate locator:▫eScholar module to find students who

moved out of state▫Partners include: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri,

South Dakota?

Extra Projects of Interest•P20 Data System

▫High School Feedback Reports•Rule 6 – Data Sharing Nebraska Schools•Continuous Improvement & DRS•Integrating Systems•Early Childhood Professional Record

System•Workforce Data Quality Initiative•Data Conference (April 14-15, 2014)

Questions?•For more information, please go to:

▫http://www.education.ne.gov/DataServices/SLDS_Grant/Index.html