School Improvement Conference Getting WISER with WISE

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School Improvement Conference Getting WISER with
WISE

• March 2006

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Agenda
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Introductions

• Alex Jackl, ESP
• John Woller, WDE
• Steve Setzer, Edustructures
• How many people here know what WISE is?
• How many people here know what SIF is?
• What is your biggest concern about WISE ?

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Executive Summary

• WISE
• SIF
• Vertical Reporting
• Issues
• Time Line

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Time Line Critical Dates

• March 15th SIF synching and Pilots commence
• March 22nd Pilots close
• April 3rd WDE-671 collection window opens
• April 14th WDE-671 collection window closes
• August 1st Daily Reporting begins for
  SIF-enabled districts
• October 1st WDE-671 Student Roster
• February 1st PAWS Pre-code Report
• April 1st WDE-671 Student Roster Update
• June 1st Graduation Report

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What is SIF?

• A blueprint for systems integration in schools.
• An emerging industry standard.
• An organization supported by over 300 members.
• A central Zone Integration Server (ZIS)
  orchestrates the exchange of data among
  applications in a zone
• Each participating system is represented by a SIF
  Agent that communicates with the Zone Integration
  Server

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Why Use SIF?

• Integrate Existing Applications
• Unified Reporting
• Unified Data Entry
• Data Quality
• Data Exchange
• Automation
• Reliability
• Security
• Choice

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The Savings
60 minutes
45 minutes saved x 18,000 students 6 FTEs per
year
15 minutes
BEFORE SIFWorks
AFTER SIFWorks
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Horizontal Integration
Student Information System

• Applications
• SIF Agents
• Zone Integration Server
• SIF Data Objects

Directory Services
Library Automation
H.R. Finance
Food Services
Transportation
Grade Book
Instructional Services
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SIF Horizontal Integration Benefits

• One-time data entry
• Perfect, real-time synchronization
• Accurate Cross-application reporting
• Reliability and Security

Savings up to 75 of initial student provisioning
time
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Vertical Integration
Federal / NCLB
State
District
School
IU / BOCES / Service Center
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SIF Vertical Integration Benefits

• Automated, real-time data collection
• District review of data
• Accurate, high quality data
• Reliability and Security

Significant state-wide time and cost savings
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ROI for Wyoming SIF Vertical Reporting Project
(once fully enabled)

• Eliminate 23 Aggregate Reports
• Reduce 8 hours per school per report
• Reduce hours per district per report
• 70,000 hours school staff time
• 18,000 hours district staff time
• 1,760,000 projected annual savings

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Student Locator
At Schools
At Districts
SIS
SIS Agent
School User
District ZIS
E-mail Notification
Student Locator Agent Web App
LEA User
State ZIS
Security Interface
This is a New ID or an Exact Match Situation
Unique Student ID Component
Student ID Resolution Agent
This is a Near Match Situation
At SDE
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Other Places

• South Carolina Dept. of Education
• State-wide SIF implementation to manage all
  student IDs
• ZIS SIS Agent in every District Connected to
  State ZIS
• VA Dept. of Education
• Project to automate unique ID management and
  state data collections
• Utah Dept. of Education
• SIF based integration of state SIS and state Spec
  Ed. Databases
• Missouri Dept. of Education
• State Report Manager and unique ID management

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State Report Manager (SRM)
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WISE Data Flow Diagram
DB Database VRF Vertical Reporting
Framework SR Student Resolver RC Report
Collector ZIS Zone Integration Server DC
Data Collector SRM State Report Manager SL
Student Locator SIS Student Information
System LEA Local Education Agency (District)
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For Each Report

• Data Element List
• Business Rules Applied to those elements
• CSV File Format
• SIF Mapping
• Executive Summary
• Timeline
• Element by Element Business Rule Description
• Reports

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SHOW DOCUMENTSALEX
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Questions
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Contacts
WDE WISE Project Coordinator John
Woller jwolle_at_educ.state.wy.us Office (307)
777-3656 Cell [phone]

• ESP Solutions Group
• Alex Jackl ajackl_at_espsg.com (781)
  370-1043

• WDE Data
• Shannon Cranmore
• scranm_at_educ.state.wy.us
• [phone]