SDP Institute for Leadership in Analytics

Grow your agency’s data capacity and analytics for 2021-2022

This four-session module will provide frameworks and strategic support for developing your data-use capacity.

Participants will:

• Identify growth opportunities for your agency’s data use;

• Design a strategic analytic plan to address your organization’s most pressing challenge; and

• Develop stakeholder engagement plans to enhance the impact of your data analytic work.

Learn from Harvard faculty about the important questions you should be asking and how to uncover the answers within your data, and network with data leaders and your peers.

Module dates: Thursdays, June 3, 10, 17, 24

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Transform data dashboards and presentations into compelling tools for improvement 

Data can tell a powerful story. This module will develop your narrative skills to create beautiful and compelling visualizations. Over the course of four sessions, you’ll delve into dashboards and reports and learn targeted communication strategies to reach different stakeholders.

Module dates: Wednesdays, June 16, 23, 30, and July 7 

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Help your organization use data for good and grow its commitment to equity, inclusion, and ethical data use

Our new coursework focused on Equity and Ethics equips data leaders with actionable tools to incorporate considerations of equity in their data strategy. Participants will learn inclusive strategies for working with education data and discuss analyses that shed light on opportunity gaps in our education systems. Participants will also work to address the more complex ethical challenges in their work, such as gaming, bias, and data privacy. This module topic is new to Institute offerings.

**Please Note: The Data Equity and Ethics module has reached capacity. At this time, if you select the Data Equity and Ethics module on your application, you will be added to the waitlist. We will notify people from the waitlist (in the order applications were received) as space becomes available.

Module dates: Thursdays, July 1, 8, 15, 22

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Cost

• $525/person/module 

• $495/person/module if sending two or more from participants from the same agency or for participants attending more than one module

Eligibility

Applicants must be employed by an education agency (school district, state education agency, CMO, education nonprofit or education-focused foundation) unless applying to attend the Data Visualization and Communication module.

• Applications open February 1, 2021.

• Modules are filling up. The application deadline for all modules is April 16.

• Acceptance is rolling, though modules have an enrollment cap and we encourage interested participants to apply before modules fill.

• Payment is due within four weeks of receiving an acceptance email. Acceptance is contingent on completion of payment and once payment is received, your spot is secured.