2. Welcome
• … to our online participants
• Join us online – ask questions and make
comments by using the hashtag:
#data4learning

3. State Educational Technology
Directors Association (SETDA)
• Founded in 2001, national, non-profit
membership association serving, supporting,
and representing U.S. state and territorial
directors for educational technology.
• Mission to build and increase the capacity of
state and national leaders to improve
education through technology policy and
practice.
• Forum for:
– Advocacy for good policy and practice
– Professional learning
– Inter-state collaboration
– Public-private partnerships

4. Transforming Data to Information
in Service of Learning
K-12 Data Standards and
Interoperability
• Better policy/practice and cost-
effectiveness decisions
• Empowers
schools, teachers, students, an
d families
• Saves time and
money, improves
services, increases
engagement, more
transparency
• Foundational to personalized
learning and competency-
based innovations

5. Today’s Presenters
• Christine Fox, SETDA
• Neill Kimrey, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
• Kayla Siler, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
• James Yap, Byram Hills School District, New York
• Richard Culatta, US Department of Education

6. Transforming Data to Information
in Service of Learning
Christine Fox
Director of Educational Leadership and Research
State Educational Technology Directors
Association (SETDA)

7. An Alphabet Soup…

8. Interoperability Leads to
Efficiency & Impact

9. Report Development Process
• Kick-off at 2012 SETDA
Leadership Summit
• Research, drafting
• Prioritizing content and
resource tools
• Online collaboration
• External review

10. Report Contents
• Emerging educational technology ecosystem
• A vision of data in service of learning
• Definitions of terms, with links to video
resources, articles, presentations, and reports
• Profiles of select data standards and
interoperability initiatives
• Recommendations

11. Consistent Data Definitions
Consistent Data Definitions: Select Initiative Profiles
• Assessment Interoperability Framework (AIF)
• Common Education Data Standards (CEDS)
• IMS Specifications
• P20W Education Standards Council (PESC)
• SIF Implementation Specifications

12. Sharing of Information across Systems: Select Initiative
Profiles
• Digital Passport
• Ed-Fi Solution
• Experience API (xAPI)
• inBloom
• MyData
• Open Badges Infrastructure
Sharing of Information Across
Systems

13. Search, Alignment, and Discovery
of Education Resources
Search, Alignment, and Discovery of Education
Resources: Select Initiative Profiles
• Granular Identifiers and Metadata for the
Common Core State Standards (GIM-CCSS)
• The Learning Registry
• Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)

14. SETDA Recommends
Recommendation #1
Develop a consensus-based, long-term vision
and roadmap for interoperability to ensure
investments in technology and digital learning
are cost effective and meet educator and
student needs.

15. SETDA Recommends
Recommendation #2
Establish an ongoing mechanism to address
transparency of privacy and security of student
data.

16. SETDA Recommends
Recommendation #3
Address data standards and interoperability issues with
vendors as part of state and district procurement
processes for educational technology and digital
learning solutions, including for the adoption of free
solutions.

17. Transforming Data to Information in
Service of Learning: State Perspective
from North Carolina
Neill Kimrey, Director of Digital Teaching and Learning
Kayla Siler, Policy and Planning Analyst
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

18. Defining Terms
 SIS – Student Information System
 IIS – Instructional Improvement System
− For NC: SIS + IIS = Home Base
 RttT – Race to the Top
 LMS – Learning Management System
 RTI – Response to Intervention
− For NC: Responsiveness to Instruction
 SLDS – State Longitudinal Data System
− For NC: CEDARS – Common Education Data and
Reporting System

19. State Perspective:
North Carolina
1.5 Million Students
100,000+ Educators
115 School Districts
2,526 Schools (including 107
Public Charter Schools)

20. NC Home Base:
Putting Data to Use
 North Carolina is rolling out Home
Base statewide (part of RttT
implementation)
 Home Base is a collection of
teaching, learning, and leading tools
to
personalize instruction
 Classroom, school, district, and
longitudinal data underpins the
tools

21. NC Home Base:
Putting Data to Use
 How will “Transforming Data to Information in
Service of Learning” make a difference?
- Provides a primer on data use for state policy
makers
- Assists in providing consistent data definitions and
interoperability for state and district use, as
functionality is added to Home Base
- Provides critical information for advocacy, policy,
and security in our use of student data

22. Building the Foundation in NC
Centralized Data Collection
Data Literacy and Data Quality
State Longitudinal Data System
Unique Identifier for Students and Staff
Master Data Management

23. State Level Guiding Principles
 Responsive – driven by challenges in our public schools
 Visionary – incorporates the latest advances in tools and
capabilities
 Trustworthy – provides for privacy and security
 Available – allows for access across the state and
through multiple media
 Robust and Expandable – has the capacity to grow
reliably to accommodate changing demands
 Collaborative – facilitates sharing of pedagogical
knowledge and instructional tools

24. Current Policy and Next Steps
 Digital Competencies – All students preparing to
teach demonstrate competencies in using digital
and other instructional technologies
 Funding for Digital Learning – Transition to
funding for digital materials to provide resources
that are current, aligned and effective for all
learners
 Simplify Data Entry Requirements – Streamline
data collections and reporting to limit duplicate
work at the LEA and school level

25. Looking at Interoperability from
a District Perspective
James Yap, Director of Technology
Byram Hills Central School District, NY

26. Located 35 miles from New York City, North Castle has a population
of approximately 12,000 in 26 square miles.
• Dr. Bill Donohue, Superintendent
• Approximately 2,500 students
• Approximately 225 staff members
• 4 Schools (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
• The district has 2 national schools of excellence, 82 Intel Science
semifinalists and 18 finalists
Byram Hills Central School District (NY):
Context and Demographics

27. • Response to Intervention (RTI)
• Clean data to the state
• Network accounts
• Connecting other databases with the same fields
• Infusing instructional technology into the curriculum
Interoperability: Solving
Educational Problems

28. SIS
Internal
Assessments Tools used
RTI Fields
Response to Intervention (RTI)
Database

29. Clean Data to the State
SIS IEP
State
State Rules
Engine

30. Account Creation Data Flow
Using SIF

31. SQL or ACCESS Interoperability
SIS Download
LMS
RTI
Calling
System
APPR

32. Single Sign On (SSO)
Learning
Management
System
Online Video
Literacy
Instructional
Software
Mathematical
Software

33. Time Savings Provided with
Interoperability
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
No Interoperability Interoperability
Hour Differential with Interoperability On a Daily Basis
Account Creation for LMS
Single sign on for LMS
Synchronizing with Special Ed. System
Clean data for the State
Account Creation For the Network and the Cloud
APPR Database
RTI Database
Calling System

34. Future Plans
• Moving more to SIF 3.0 and two way agents
• Incorporating more single sign on databases into the system
• Moving more to a cloud-based network
• Collaborating with the state to get more resources targeted
specifically for each student
• Generally getting the right data into the right hands!

35. Transforming Data to Information
in Service of Learning
Richard Culatta
Acting Director, Office of Educational Technology
U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/technology/

36. Questions?
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