Become an SDP Partner

It's been such an honor to work with our fellows. The work allowed us to really understand how critical the SDP Fellows have been to the longitudinal data system's success. They are the exact data leaders we need right now to get this project done. The impact of their work, SDP's guidance, and the community of practice they've been involved in has benefited their development and our project. The fellows have shared important ideas and resources garnered from their SDP gatherings and colleagues. It's been a wonderful scaffold to their accomplishments and development as statewide data leaders.

We've always called ourselves a 'data driven organization,' and to a degree we were. But seeing other organizations in action really motivated us to step up our efforts. And having all of the resources and work during the program helped us put it into action.

Our Fellow was already a leader, but the SDP broadened his world and data view, gave him better insight into some of our biggest academic challenges, and connected him with outstanding leaders and valuable resources.

The SDP fellowship program gave our agency fellows tools and strategies to keep our strategic planning and data use efforts moving when we would otherwise have been tempted to let other things delay our work. Their excitement and enthusiasm for the use of data has not only changed our office culture and attitudes about data but increased our principals' enthusiasm for the use of data at the local school sites.

The term ‘support’ can mean many things, but for SDP it runs the gamut from providing resources and feedback to autonomy and advocacy. They’re really putting the right things in place to realize their vision of increasing the analytic capacity of education agencies to affect real change.