Using EMAPS for Discretionary Grant Reporting
Kevin Sauls and Rachel Carson, U.S. Department of Education

This winter, the U.S. Department of Education's HEP (Higher Education Program) and CAMP (College Assistance Migrant Program) programs for migrant education began using the EDFacts Metadata and Process System to collect the annual performance information from its grantees. This session will touch upon how grantees, including local education agencies, worked with EMAPS, and how EMAPS may be used in the future by other discretionary grant programs.

Developing a Standard Data Collection Framework
Larry Lindain and Robin Martherus, Arizona Department of Education

The Arizona Department of Education has developed a standard data collection framework to facilitate the development of secure, reliable, and consistent data collection applications. Learn the architecture and design behind the applications and come discuss the technologies leveraged by the framework, including Geneva, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5, and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4). The presenters will explore the interesting stuff under the hood!

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System for Education Enterprise in Kansas (SEEK): Delivering Enterprise Data From the Warehouse to Kansas Districts and Schools
Kathy Gosa and Brenda Wilson, Kansas State Department of Education

In 2009, the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) launched its System for Education Enterprise in Kansas (SEEK), delivering to Kansas districts and schools dashboards containing accountability, achievement and attendance measures across time. Utilizing Microsoft SharePoint technologies, SEEK provides authenticated user, at-a-glance, graphical and visual representation of aggregate and student-level data related to both national and state indicators and targets. This session will offer a demonstration of SEEK's existing dashboards, as well as discussion of the implementation strategy, planned enhancements and roadblocks encountered.

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Web-Based Educator Credentialing System
Patti High and Jeff Smith, Oklahoma State Department of Education
Dean Hupp, Hupp Information Technologies

In May 2009, Oklahoma teacher certification made a giant leap from a paper and mainframebased teacher certification system to a web-based Oklahoma Educator Credentialing System (OECS) developed by Hupp Information Technologies. Join us to view the numerous automated features of this .Net system, including online renewals and applications, credit-card payments, scanning of documents, recommendations from colleges of education, verification of required tests, felony checks, and more. Oklahoma Professional Standards personnel will share their journey from application backlogs of weeks, multiple sets of standards, uncleansed data, business rule challenges and phones that never stopped ringing, to the efficiency they enjoy with OECS.

A Single Unique Pool Strategy for P–20 Student and Staff Identifiers
Janice Johnson, Maryland State Department of Education
David Butter and Rashmi Pathak, Deloitte Consulting LLP

This session will analyze the approach and benefits of integrating unique student and staff identifier systems using a single unique ID pool approach. Looking ahead to post education data sources such as workforce and corrections will be discussed.

Bridging the Gap Between Secondary and Postsecondary: Iowa Transcript Center
Jim Addy, Iowa Department of Education
Russell Buyse, National Transcript Center

The Iowa Department of Education (IDE) is working with the National Transcript Center to implement the Iowa Transcript Center (ITC), Iowa's statewide, electronic record and transcript exchange system for all PK–12 and higher education public in-state institutions. During this session, IDE will discuss its project's best practices as they relate to working with school districts, the Iowa 2-year and 4-year colleges and universities, as well as the Student Information System vendors represented in the state to gather information, build consensus and pave the way for a successful statewide deployment of ITC.

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Aspiring Teachers and Leaders—Linchpins in a Comprehensive Approach to Education Reform for P-20
Denise Airola and Sean Mulvenon, University of Arkansas)

States and individuals invest billions of dollars in the preparation of teachers and future school leaders through colleges of education only to continue spending for the professional development of this group when they enter the K–12 workforce, particularly as it pertains to using data and assessment results to improve student achievement. Imagine the savings in time and financial resources if programs at colleges of education infused the latest technology and information for working with data and assessment results directly into teacher and school leader preparation, and if that technology was aligned with the state's longitudinal data system. What would this look like? Why isn't it there already? What will it take to get there? Join this session for a lively debate of the answers!

Data in Action: Linking and Using Education and Workforce Data
Bi Vuong, Data Quailty Campaign
Ken Sauer, Indiana Commission for Higher Education
Joel Nudi, New Mexico Public Education Department

What is workforce data? What does "linking to workforce data" mean? What can you do with linked data? To help states navigate the "career" part of a "pre–K to college and career" data system, the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) will give a brief overview of the different workforce data systems and information on how many states are working on the education-workforce data connection based on our 2009 DQC Annual Survey results. In addition to the overview, audience members will hear from New Mexico and Indiana about their efforts to use linked education and workforce data.

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Moving Data Electronically With SIF
Peter Coleman, Virginia Department of Education
Stephanie Seigler, Pearson, Inc.

This session will provide information on how Virginia is using Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) to move transcripts, student records and student-teacher schedules.

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