Concurrent Session III Presentations
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
1:45 - 2:45
III–A: Public Domain Clearinghouse
Jeff Sellers, State Support Team
Open source sharing for education agencies has arrived! The NCES Public Domain Clearinghouse (PDC) provides a
platform for states (and eventually districts) to share, learn, and adopt non-proprietary solutions to common data system-related
challenges (portals, growth models, professional development programs, etc.). By leveraging and building upon proven products
from the field, PDC users can conserve scarce resources necessary to build solutions from scratch. The site facilitates access
to products and allows users to post comments and modified versions of others' solutions. This session includes an update on
the tools currently available in the PDC and demonstrations from states.
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III–B: Re-Engaging the Disengaged Student: Effective Use in the Affective Domain
Alvin Larson, Meriden Board of Education (Connecticut)
Recent national attention on "bullying" and school climate emphasizes the need for quality data to
guide decisionmakers. The National School Climate Standards accentuate reliable measures of respect, caring, fairness,
and pro-social behavior, as well as methods to re-engage students who are disengaging from school. One local education
agency is piloting an online, confidential school climate survey and intervention system designed to meet these standards.
This system includes valid and reliable measures of these psychological constructs, identifies students in grades 3–12 who
are disengaging from school, utilizes "trigger" e-mails to respond to critical situations, and utilizes an
intervention system involving school counseling services.
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III–C: Connecting Teachers to Students
Joyce Popp, Idaho State Department of Education
Steven King and Glynn Ligon, ESP Solutions Group
Idaho has put in place a data collection system that regularly compiles student courses and the
teachers who instruct those courses. The system accounts for the possibility of multiple instructors and for virtual
instruction; as well, it has accounted for many of the characteristics for a "teacher of record." This
session describes the system, the uses of the data, and the lessons learned. This session also includes an open discussion
with the audience to provide feedback and comments.
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III–D: Nevada's System of Accountability and Information in Nevada (SAIN): Collecting and Reporting, Successes and Challenges for its State Longitudinal Data System
Andrew Parr, Glenn Meyer, Julian Montoya, Ken Nelmes, and Gene Walters,
Nevada Department of Education
The Nevada Department of Education (NDE) built the System of Accountability and Information in Nevada
(SAIN) primarily for the purpose of meeting federal and state reporting requirements. Federal grant funds provided
the NDE with the opportunity to enhance SAIN in a manner that allows authorized users to access a wide array of educational
data in a secure environment. This session presents information and lessons learned about the NDE's journey from a
collector of data to a distributor of data. Attendees will also hear about the NDE's latest challenges: growth model
public reporting and quantifying teacher effectiveness.
III–E: OnTrackCA—An Early Warning System
Gregory W. Lindner, Elk Grove Unified School District (California)
L. Russ Brawn, California School Information Services
Mark Gross, School Loop, Inc.
OnTrackCA.org is an online performance management community of California education leaders and
their schools, people committed to raising graduation rates and reducing dropouts. OnTrackCA.org is unique and
transformative, and it is designed to help people use data to work together to raise performance. The system connects an
indicator dashboard to aligned interventions, so people can identify and support at-risk students. The system is free for
local education agencies in California.
III–F: Connecting Financial Data to EDFacts
Matthew Case and Ross Santy, U.S. Department of Education
Through EDFacts and other U.S. Department of Education (ED) data systems, ED offers a broad set of data
and reports on grantmaking, grantee performance data, and school and district demographics to inform ED programs and
policy. However, these assets are typically fragmented across different systems and do not always employ common entity
identifiers (e.g., NCES ID to DUNS), which can facilitate more comprehensive analyses. This presentation focuses on
recent efforts across ED to link K–12 demographic and performance data collected in EDFacts to grant execution data.
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III–G: Cumberland County Schools Leverage District Data Warehouse for Personalized Education Planning
Ruben Reyes, Cumberland County Schools (North Carolina)
Cumberland County Schools in North Carolina is partnering with eScholar on a new application to empower the
educational team (including educators, parents, and students) to create personalized education plans and set intervention
and behavioral goals. Harnessing the power of comprehensive longitudinal data from the district's Data Warehouse has
enabled it to measure the effectiveness of the process and to continue to improve student learning.
III–H: Using Data to Measure the Impact of Chronic Absence in Pre–K and Kindergarten
Faith Connolly, Baltimore Education Research Consortium
Heidi Stevens, Baltimore City Public Schools (Maryland)
Chronic absence, defined in Maryland as missing more than 20 days in a school year, interferes with
instruction and learning. Choosing to examine the issue of absence longitudinally, Baltimore City investigated
chronic absence in Pre–K and Kindergarten to determine its influence on later attendance and achievement patterns
and to produce geographical maps of student attendance to provide a unique context to develop and implement interventions.
III–I: Making Education Data Available to Educators and the Public
Karl Scheff, California Department of Education
Nancy Sullivan, Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team/California School Information Services
This session includes a demonstration of three free Internet-based services that provide educators and the
public with easy access to data about K–12 education in California:
- DataQuest, the California Department of Education (CDE) site that includes accountability, test, enrollment, graduate, dropout, course enrollment, staffing, and English learner data.
- Ed-Data, a site supported by partnership with CDE, EdSource, and the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) that includes accountability, demographic, financial, bond and parcel tax election results, pop-up trend, and comparison data.
- School Accountability Report Card (SARC) Ed-Data, a site for local SARC coordinators that provides pre-populated templates to use when creating SARCs.
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