#  Our Impact 

 



##  Our Impact 

Since 2008, the Strategic Data Project has helped education agencies to transform the use of data and evidence to improve student outcomes from early education through college.



 

 

 

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##  SDP by the Numbers 

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##  How We Make a Difference 

SDP fellows and partners are at the forefront of analyzing data and implementing innovative solutions to our most pressing education challenges.

 

 [ Read more stories from the field. arrow\_circle\_right ](/blog) 

 



  [### Meghan Lane

 ](/blog/substitute-shift-how-data-can-address-equitable-substitute-placement)While an SDP Fellow at Chicago Public Schools, Meghan Lane noticed an increased demand for substitute teachers in Chicago Public Schools was leaving an average of 350 classroom substitute teacher requests unfilled each school day. The large majority of these schools were serving racially diverse and economically disadvantaged students. Lane looked to the data to understand substitute preferences, identify schools with low fill rates, and developed a stipend program to incentivize substitute teachers to work in the schools with historically higher empty classrooms.



 

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  [### Sue Mukherjee

 ](/blog/making-workforce-data-work-students-and-families)While an SDP Fellow at the Pennsylvania State System for Higher Education, Sue Mukherjee merged student data with employment data to shed light on how post-secondary institutions can best respond to students and workforce needs. Her work brought to light new data points to inform institutional decisionmaking, such as an institution-specific crosswalk is a key tool for viewing the real time connections of education programs with the labor market; a database linking career trajectories of alumni; and new indicators for program outcomes



 

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##  Select an Impact Area to Learn More 

 



   ![Early Education Learning Blocks](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-01/early%20ed.png?itok=8Ul4kvCd) 

 



 

 [### Early Childhood Education

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 [### Family and Community Engagement

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   ![Cycle of magnifying data chart](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-01/data%20systems%20culture.png?itok=uoll9iWt) 

 



 

 [### Data Systems and Culture

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 [### Academic Recovery

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 [### Educator Workforce

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 [### Postsecondary Success

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##  What happens when education organizations build capacity from within? 

 





 

 

 



 

 

 

##  SDP Fellow Alumni Pathways 

After completing the SDP Fellowship, our fellows go on to exciting careers in the field of education and more than 65% of them continue employment with their placement agencies. Our fellows’ career pathways following the fellowship include:

 

 



 ### Richard Bowman

Chief Information & Strategy Officer,  
Albuquerque Public Schools



 

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 ### Sade Bonilla

Assistant Professor,  
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education



 

   ![Sade Bonilla](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Untitled%20design%20%2854%29.png?itok=airlo7hq) 

 

 

 

 ### Akisha Osei-Sarfo

Director of Research,  
Council of the Great City Schools



 

   ![Akisha Osei-Sarfo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4446/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Untitled%20design%20%2856%29.png?itok=R_BGWQHT)