Soheil Katal - Chief Information Officer at Los Angeles Unified School District

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Soheil Katal,
Chief Information Officer
“MY DATA STORY”

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Near Realtime
Data Streaming
SEL & PD
Dashboards
Snowflake Adhoc
OpenData
Executive
Dashboards
Focus
WholeChild 2.0
WholeChild
GetData
MyData
DSS
IDEC & BSAP
Dashboards
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LAUSD’s Journey to
Enterprise Reporting
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2013
2016
2018
2019
2021
2021
Coming Soon

3. DSS -
Decision Support
System
DSS is a secure, web-based Data
Warehouse system that
provides accountability reports
of student outcomes and
achievement.
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*data has been modified to protect student information

4. My Data
• Has 22+ years of current and
historical data on individual
students and schools. It can
view reports by individual
student or for a specific
classroom, school, local
district or district-wide.
• Has over a total of 20 million
student records. There are
1.2 million unique records
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5. • Classroom teacher and administrator
evaluation history
• Staff rosters
• Teacher turnover and principal tenure
• Teacher course assignment history for the
past three school years
• Classified and certificated position
assignment history
• Attendance data (including top dates of
absences by day of the week, attendance
rates, and detailed individual employee
absence data)
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GetData

6.  Consists of subject-specific dashboards; canned reports; and
operational and ad hoc reporting capabilities. It brings in business
data and merges it with instructional data.
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Focus
*data has been modified to protect student information

7. Whole Child- data analytics tool
• Filter and analyze up to 3 years of data
• Actionable notifications
• Holistic academic achievement, social
emotional and physical health information
• Remote learning dashboards
• Remote learning analytics pages
• Student attendance and engagement data
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*data has been modified to protect student information

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OpenData

9.  Closing the gap on the digital divide will
bring every student connected. Build the
Internet connectivity monitoring
dashboard to ensure that the needs of
district students, educators, and staff who
support student learning are met.
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Focus- Closing the Digital Divide

10. Executive
Dashboards
• Supports the
Superintendent’s Office,
central office and local
district executives, and
community of school
administrators with relevant
information that supports
District Strategic Plan, LCAP
and District goals
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*data has been modified to protect student information

11.  Adhoc reporting environment
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Snowflake
*data has been modified to protect student information

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COMING SOON….
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and
Physical Education (PE) Dashboards
Intensive Diagnostic Education
Centers (IDEC) and Black Student
Achievement Plan (BSAP)
Whole Child 2.0
*data has been modified to protect student information

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