Online and 247 Learning

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Information Technology and Data Driven
Decision-making in Fairfax County Public
Schools by Maribeth Luftglass Assistant
Superintendent and Chief Information Officer
January 15, 2003
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Fairfax County Public Schools Highlights

• FCPS is a large, excellent school system
• 234 schools and centers
• 165,000 students, highly diverse
• 30,888 eligible, free and reduced lunch
• 46 minority
• 20,776 full time positions
• 92 of graduating seniors go on
• to post-secondary education
• 84 of HS seniors take the SAT
• average scores far exceed Virginia and U.S.
  averages
• 207 National Merit Scholarship semifinalists in
  2000

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FCPS Technology Vision

• Develop technology programs that provide
  opportunities for students to become highly
  motivated, self-directed, life-long learners, and
  technology literate citizens
• Create a totally connected community where
  technology is available where and when you need
  it, and is appropriate to your needs

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FCPS Highlights - Technology

• 69,000 workstations
• 41 Apples, 59 PCs
• 700 servers
• High Speed Wide Area Network to all
• locations
• All schools have at least one T1
• All schools w/Internet Access since 1996
• All schools have a web site
• Internet is integral to our curriculum
• Typical High School performs 250,000
• http requests per day
• Best Student/Computer Ratio (31) in Washington
  Area
• Wireless in many schools and all admin offices

FCPS spends over 100 Million per year on
Technology
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FCPS Online Courses - eLearning
The use of technology to create, foster, deliver,
and facilitate learning, anytime and anywhere.
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FCPS Online Campus

• Online Campus
• Serving middle and high school students
• General Education
• Homebound
• Juvenile Detention Center
• Home-schooled students
• Current Online Courses
• English 9, 10, 11, 12 Chemistry I
• Creative Writing Biology I
• AP French Literature Geosystems
• Spanish 1 US/VA History
• Algebra I and II US/VA Government
• Geometry AP US Government Politics
• World History/Geography I, II

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FCPS 24-7 Learning

• Blackboard.com is now available to all FCPS
  teachers and staff
• This provides
• Supplemental material and enrichment activities
  to enhance instruction for both teachers and
  students
• Information to parents about classroom
  instructional information and activities

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FCPS 24/7 Learning Activity Growth
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FCPS 24/7 Daily Use November 2002
Hits Per Hour
Time of Day
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FCPS School Libraries on the Web

• Students, parents, and teachers can conduct
  research and browse the library shelves on-line
• The FCPS On-Line Library went live in April, 2002
  with
• 3,571,063 Items
• 328,801 MARC Records
• 191,146 Patrons
• 333,525 Charges
• http//libcat.fcps.edu

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FCPS UConnect Launched

• An On-line gateway providing managers and
  employees direct access to Human Resources and
  Payroll Information went live in 2002
• Employee access to pay, benefits, tax deductions
  and teaching credentials
• Principal access to early hire resumes, vacancy
  lists, and teacher evaluations
• Available to all contracted employees
• 8,725 employees used UConnect during the opening
  launch
• Approximately 3,000 of 6,000 employees who
  changed their benefits during the open
  enrollment, did so with UConnect

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Data-Driven Decision-making in FCPS - EDSL

• The Educational Decision Support Library (EDSL)
  is an enterprise-wide decision support system
  that provides a central location (data warehouse)
  for informed decision making.
• EDSL allows school leaders to mine and summarize
  various data sets by creating customized views of
  data (Reports and Worksheets).
• EDSL has three primary components
• 1. Data repository (database) with metrics and
  student information
• 2. Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) for
  data mining and analysis
• 3. Reports and Worksheets customized based on
  user's data criteria

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EDSL Objectives

• One-stop-shop access to enterprise-wide data to
  support decision-making at the strategic level
• Support operational accountability and
  educational strategy using data as a foundation
  for assessment of program effectiveness
• Identify student groups that need additional
  resources to be successful
• Input for development of school plans.
• Tool for leaders to manage the efficient use of
  funds and resources
• Powerful tool for local, state and national
  reporting

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EDSL Structure
1. Operational data from school system is loaded
from multiple sources into EDSL Staging
Repository.
SASI
2. Operational data is aggregated, summarized,
and formatted to present in a multi-dimensional
view.
Datamarts
EDSL
Historical Files
3. Powerful analytical tools can then be used to
access, analyze, manipulate and print the data.
Human Resources Data
National/Virginia External Benchmarks
Financial Data
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EDSL Volume Definitions

• Membership (Enrollment Attendance)
• Current and Historical by Ethnic, Gender,
  Socioeconomic Distribution
• Demographics Reports
• Course Enrollment Marks (CEM)
• Course Enrollment by Grade Level, Ethnic, Gender
• Marks Distribution by Course, Ethnic, Gender
• CEM with Standards of Learning EOC Tests
• CEM for School and State Subjects
• Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL)
• SOL Scores Detail Spring Summer - Sort By Last
  Name, Sort By Scale Score
• SOL Scores Summary Spring Summer - Summary
  count by proficiency code for each school
• Student Needs Improvement Report by Cluster
• EOC by Administering School
• EOC by Attending School

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EDSL Volume Definitions, cont.

• Service Program
• English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
• ESOL Average Age for Each Grade
• ESOL Age Count for District, and Each Grade Level
  
• ESOL Count of Students Eligible for Free and
  Reduced Lunch
• ESOL LEP Students Count for Excel
  Success-by-8 Schools
• Title I
• Title I Participation for District
• Title I Participation by Grade Level for District
  SOL slice
• IB
• IB Participation with demographics for District
• Special Education
• Membership Merge
• Referral
• Eligibility
• IEP

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Education Decision Support LibraryNext Steps

• Continue to implement features for No Child Left
  Behind
• Standardized Test Framework
• SOL, DRA, SAT, IB, AP
• Target Data
• Additional SOL Reports
• Usability Improvements
• Finalize Patent
• Commercialization process

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For More InformationVisit our public web site
atwww.fcps.edu

• FCPS Technology Plans
• http//www.fcps.edu/stpc/
• FCPS 24/7 Learning Site
• http//fcps.blackboard.com/
• User ID fcpsguest, Password fcpsguest
• FCPS Education Decision Support Library
• http//www.fcps.edu/dit/edsl/
• FCPS On-Line Library Catalog
• http//libcat.fcps.edu
• FCPS On-Line Campus
• http//www.fcps.edu/DIS/OHSICS/onlinecampus/