The Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems Grant Program offers a variety of support resources 
(1.36 MB). These support resources, described briefly below, are designed to help education agencies with a variety of issues related to longitudinal data systems, including assessment issues, data governance, interoperability, data sharing, teacher–student linkages, external evaluations and research.
States needing help in specific areas can request support resources from NCES. Contact Rosemary Collins or your SLDS program officer for more information.
Best Practices Guides provide lessons learned and targeted strategies to help states overcome common obstacles to creating a high-quality SLDS.
The Effective Practices Conferences provide venues for state and district staff to share effective practices and lessons learned, and engage with colleagues from across state lines as well as representatives from the federal government and national non-profit organizations.
The LDS Share is a dissemination venue for non-proprietary products and lessons learned from longitudinal data systems work conducted by state and local education agencies, including work funded by the SLDS Grant Program.
The Personnel Exchange Network (PEN) provides grantee states and non–grantee states the opportunity to visit another SEA to gain a better understanding of successful methods of education data collection, maintenance, reporting, and use.
A listserv is available for SLDS grantees to ask other grantees questions to learn how others have dealt with various issues like writing RFPs and data sharing agreements.
Links are available to access past discussions and presentations in which grantees share information regarding their SLDS systems.
All states can request support for SLDS projects from the State Support Team around technical design, stakeholder communication, project management, data governance, early childhood initiatives, K-12 systems, postsecondary systems, workforce data, and other areas critical to SLDS development.
Additional resources for SLDS grantees
