How Data Can Help or Hurt Your Business

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How Data Can Help or Hurt Your Business

• EdNet 2007
• Chicago, Illinois
• 9/11/2007

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SchoolNet Overview
Best K12 Enterprise Solution
School Performance Management Dashboards
Instructional Management
Learning Communities
Talent Management

• Reporting and Analysis
• Curriculum Management
• Instructional Management
• Formative Assessment

• Parent Engagement
• Teacher Websites
• School Websites
• Collaboration Tools

• PD Management
• Mentor Management
• Competency Models
• Succession Planning

Data Warehouse
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Client Overview

• School District of Philadelphia
• Fulton County Schools
• Cleveland Municipal School District
• Columbus Public Schools
• Wichita Public Schools
• Pittsburgh Public Schools
• Newport News Public Schools
• Albuquerque Public Schools
• Inglewood Public Schools
• Colorado Springs Public Schools

• Chicago Public Schools
• Virginia Beach City Public Schools
• Northside (San Antonio) ISD
• District of Columbia Public Schools
• Atlanta Public Schools
• Corpus Christi ISD
• Mesquite ISD
• Red Clay Consolidated School District
• New Haven Public School District

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District Insights
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K12 Data Challenges
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District Data Challenge
ProfessionalDevelopment
Standards
FinanceData
Curriculum
HRData
Scope and Sequence
InstructionalMaterials
ProgramData
HighlyQualified
Assessment Items
SIS
Assessment Results
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District Data Integration Challenge (Need Unified
Data and Content)
Textbooks
Special Ed
After School SES

• Horizon
• GoalView
• Parents
• Students
• Community

• Pearson
• Harcourt
• McGraw-Hill
• Houghton

• Platform
• Sylvan
• University
• Community

SIS Student Data
Intervention
Teachers
Administrators
IMS Instructional Management System

• Compass
• Plato
• Read180
• CCC
• Riverdeep

• SASi
• Chancery
• Pentamation
• AS400

Professional Development
Charter Schools CSR Models
Assessments

• Stiggins
• Reeves
• TeachScape
• LMS

• Victory
• Edison
• Success 4 All
• Other

• Princeton Review
• Wireless Generation
• ETS
• EduSoft

Parents
Students
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Inputs Impact Outcomes
Leadership
Experience
Curriculum
Professional Development
Resources
Training
Demographics
Engagement
Environment
Engagement
Success Measures
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Data Types

• Student Data
• Legacy
• SIS
• Demographic
• Special Education
• Discipline
• Assessment
• Summative
• High Stakes
• Formative
• End of Term
• Classroom
• End of Chapter
• Adaptive
• Interactive Response

• Content
• Scope and Sequence
• Basal Content
• Supplemental Content
• Assessment Items
• Resources
• Reference
• Behavioral Data
• Usage Data
• Application

• Staff Data
• Legacy
• Professional Development
• Education
• Years of Experience
• Salary
• Demographic
• Assessment
• Self Assessment
• Observation
• Certifications

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Data for Helping Your Business

• Data to Evaluate Program Effectiveness
• Does your program evaluate your effectiveness?
• Can you correlate usage to school improvement?
• Data to Drive Product Development
• Is there a feedback loop to drive product
  improvement?
• Do you know whether your products get used?
• Is there a causal relationship between usage and
  impact?
• Data to Drive Product Need
• With data, can you support enrichment or
  remediation needs?

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Data for Hurting Your Business

• Building Data and Content Platforms is Hard Work
• Know Your Core Competency
• Determine Where You Fit in the Value Chain
• Leverage Partners in the Ecosystem

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Our Partnering Efforts

• Digital Content Integration
• Data Integration
• Single Sign On
• Standard format
• State Standards
• SCORM, SIF, GEM, IMS
• Education Systemics

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Synch Contacts

• Contact Information
• Alvin Crawford,
• SVP Corporate Marketing Development
  acrawford_at_schoolnet.com
• Jay Johnson
• Director, Corporate Development
• JJohnson_at_schoolnet.com
• Dan Ginsberg
• Vice President, Product Marketing
  Dginsberg_at_schoolnet.com