Got Data What Do You Do With It

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Got Data?What Do You Do With It?

• Carla Wade
• Technology Education Specialist
• Oregon Department of Education
• And SETDA (State Educational Technology Directors
  Association)

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History

• 1997 Legislature required development of k-12
  school educational warehouse (Database Initiative
  Project)
• Comparable spending information
• Student assessment data
• Student demographics
• Accessible to public

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Challenges

• Integrating multiple systems
• Mobile student population
• Move from manual reporting (200 districts x 200
  reports 40,000 forms)
• Need for longitudinal data
• District school need for information
• Varied data collection standards across the
  Department

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Solutions

• Web-based, secure Internet
• Automated data collection
• Automated data validation
• Web-based status tracking
• Data warehouse repository
• Web reporting analysis

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Database Initiative

• Policymakers can now base decisions on
• Funding
• Student assessment results
• Staffing
• School processes
• Student demographics
• Infrastructure
• http//www.ode.state.or.us/sfda/reports.aspx

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Draft Technology Vision

• Assumptions
• Business Drivers
• High Level Conceptual Vision
• Student Records Conceptual Vision
• Prioritization Criteria

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Assumptions

• Focus on What not How or Who
• 5 7 Year Vision
• Partner Participation/Collaboration
• Build upon Successes and Lessons Learned Best
  Practices
• Protect Student Data Confidentiality

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Business Drivers

• State and Federal Requirements
• Decrease in State Funding
• Mobility of Students
• Portability of Data and Records
• Disparate Systems and Data Centers
• Accurate timely information
• Oregons Education Act for the 21st Century

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High-Level Oregon 0-20 Conceptual Technology
Vision
Student Plans Profiles
Data Exchange
District ESD
Student Learning
OSR Student Records
Students
Grants Allocations
DBI
Professional Development
Pre-K Programs
Staff Records
Staff
Admin Business Mgmt
Instructional Management
Post Graduate
Enterprise
Accountability Analysis
District School Records
Monitoring
Aggregate School District
Post High School
TSPC
Processing
Admin
Other Data
ODE Admin
State Federal Reporting
State Federal
Accountability
Public Reporting
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Oregon 0-20 Student Learning Records Conceptual
Technology Vision
Student Plans Profiles
Student Learning
OSR Student Records
Data Exchange - OSR - SSID
Student Details
Professional Development
District ESD
Student Assessment Results
Student Assessment Data
Instructional Management
DBI
Processing
Pre-K Programs
Accountability Analysis
Misc. Student Program Data
Student Program Data
Enterprise
Post Grad Reporting
Post Graduate
Other Student Data
State Federal Reporting
Other Student Data
Public Reporting
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Prioritization Criteria

• Supports Instruction
• Supports State Federal Rqmts
• Supports Partner Needs
• Available Funding
• Adequate Technical Infrastructure
• Aligns with ODE Vision/Mission
• Improves Efficiency of Systems and Data Centers

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What Are You Doing with the Data?

• Federal Programs
• School Improvement Efforts

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Federal Program History

• Student Services Office
• Title I, III, IV, and V, VI, Rural Schools
• Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Field
  Services
• Titles IIA and IID
• Consolidated Application Pancake Style
• Federal Programs Road Show (Technical Assistance)

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Enter NCLB

• Needs
• New LEA Consolidated application for Federal
  Programs
• Method to address goals of NCLB, State Board of
  Education and new Superintendent
• Encouragement for districts to look at data when
  establishing goals and targets

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Connecting Requirements

• Developing a purposeful relationship between
  requirements to improve education quality
• Biennial Consolidated District Improvement Plan
  (CDIP)
• Revised On-Site Program Review/Assurances
  Visitations
• Oregon School District Consolidated Subgrant
  Application

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Performance Goals

• By 2013-2014, all students will reach high
  standards, at a minimum attaining proficiency or
  better, in reading and mathematics
• All English Language Learners will become
  proficient in English and reach high academic
  standards, at a minimum, meeting or exceeding
  Oregon academic performance standards in reading
  and mathematics
• By 2005-2006, all students will be taught by
  highly qualified teachers

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Performance Goals (continued)

• All students will be taught in learning
  environments that are safe, drug-free, and
  conducive to learning
• All students will graduate from high school
• All students and teachers will have increased
  access to technology to support student academic
  achievement
• Increased numbers of teachers will integrate
  technology into instruction

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Data-Driven Program Design

• Application is designed to guide the district
  through a series of steps intended to encourage
  and support a data-driven decision model

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Using Data

• District will
• Identify specific performance goal-related
  educational challenges the data suggests as high
  priorities for effort and resources
• Propose program specific activities to support
  with federal funds

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Further Collaboration

• Connecting Consolidated District Improvement
  Plans with Technology Plans
• Incorporating Technology into Oregons Quality
  Education Model
• Cross office collaboration in revising the Oregon
  Educational Technology Plan (modeling for the
  districts)

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Working with Districts/Schools

• To
• Use data for determining a focus for improvement
  efforts
• Know what reports are available how to use them
• 3 yr summary of student assessment data
• Comparison group reports
• of students meeting standards
• Subgroup performance
• Class roster reports
• Use data to evaluate and improve performance

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Support Services

• Education professionals across all ODE offices,
  and other educational organizations and agencies
  working in partnership to develop and deliver a
  system of support for all districts and schools
• A coordinated plan for providing support to all
  districts and schools
• A structure that differentiates the levels of
  support for districts and schools, based on their
  prioritization of need

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Support Services

• Services to districts and schools based on
  effective support strategies, research, effective
  practices and data
• A statewide system of intensive, sustained
  support for identified low-performing schools

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Support Services

• Ongoing communication plan to inform all
  districts, schools, and education partners of
  support and resources
• ODE leadership, staff and education partners
  prepared with the knowledge and skills necessary
  to provide effective and efficient support to
  districts and schools.

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Teaching and Learning Resources

• http//www.ode.state.or.us/cifs/learningresource/

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Questions?

• Carla Wade
• Technology Education Specialist
• Oregon Department of Education
• Carla.wade_at_state.or.us
• Or
• Doug Kosty
• Technology and Information Services Director
• Doug.kosty_at_state.or.us