Developing a Data Vision

At the March 16 Southeast Data Institute, morning presenter Robb Geier from PCG Education led district-based teams through an investigation of Data Quality, Data Capacity, and Data Culture within the context of their own settings. He talked about the "Fizzle Factor" - the place that many districts seem to get stuck on their way from superficial data use to systemic data use.

Teams worked hard to investigate a framework for thinking about data use, identify related strengths and limiting factors, develop draft vision statements for data use, inventory data systems and available data, and embark on the development of an action plan for district data use. [Robb has graciously made the materials from the workshop available for districts who were not able to attend.]

We hope that ALL districts in the Southeast region will register for one of several upcoming networking sessions where we will have an opportunity to continue these discussions and share common needs and best practices related to data use.

Data Institute Follow-Up

The Lassoing Local Data Conference was held last week at Stonehill College with over 180 attendees from 40+ school districts in the Southeast region.

Thank you to all attendees and presenters for a very successful day! (Please visit the event web site at https://sites.google.com/site/southeastdatainstitute/ for follow-up information and a slide show of the day.)

Presentation materials and handouts from the day are being posted on the Conference Materials page as we receive them, so that they may be shared with a wider audience.

In addition, a series of follow-up networking meetings focused on data use are being organized in order to continue the important conversations that were started at last week's event. All districts in the region are invited to attend these initial meetings, not just the districts which were able to send teams to the institute. Please visit the Follow-Up Opportunities page for additional information and registration.

Data Institute and Follow-Up Resources

I am looking forward to seeing many of you at the Lassoing Local Data institute this Wednesday at Stonehill College. (Please note that the conference is completely filled with a wait list - registered participants received confirmations via email last week.)

For those that aren't able to attend, please know that we will be posting as many of the resources from the institute on the Resource page on the event web site. In addition, there will be follow-up networking sessions held in April and May, hosted through our region's collaboratives. These will be open to ALL districts in the region, regardless of whether or not your district attended the institute.

Additional information will be posted later this week so stay tuned!