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Keeping the Fire: Establishing Culturally Responsive Data Systems and Stewardship to Advance Native Students’ Success

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“Our systems ultimately should reflect the desires of the tribal colleges and the students that they represent.” - Dr. Darius D. Taylor What can colleges and universities do to support American Indian or Alaskan Native (AIAN) students to succeed? It’s...

Using a Data-Driven Approach to Guide District Leadership Toward Student Success

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This Q&A is part of an SDP Blog series profiling members of the SDP Fellowship Cohort 15. All posts from this series may be found here . Q&A with Justine Ingram & Dr. Krista Cox at Gilbert Public Schools, a Cohort 15 SDP Fellowship Partner Agency. Justine...

Strategic Data Excellence: Elk Grove Unified’s Innovative Approach to Assess Program Implementation

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How can a school district know what helps students succeed? Most often, leaders and analysts look at data like test scores, on-time graduation, and attendance rates. While these measures provide important insights about what a district is achieving, they...

The Hidden Value of Mixed Results

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Dr. Adriana Villavicencio discusses lessons learned from the impact (and lack thereof) of a NYC program serving Black and Latino boys. New policies in education often evoke excitement and buzz upon implementation—but lose attention if they later fall...

Why We Funded: Strategic Data Project Fellows

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"Providing targeted funding to improve grantees’ data capacity has been a key strategy for us." Ipek Bakir of the Overdeck Family Foundation discusses how they're working with SDP Fellows to improve grantees' data use and better understand the impact of...

Rethinking Data and Accountability for Special Populations

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In common circumstances, success is a moving target. For more unique groups of students, even more so. The call for data-driven problem solving has increased in the wake of the pandemic as schools now wrestle with unprecedented conditions. COVID...

A Decade of Education Data: The Strategic Data Project Celebrates its 10th year.

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The 2018-19 year marks the 10th anniversary of the Strategic Data Project. Ten years ago, the majority of school systems were amassing a treasure trove of student-level data for the first time yet lacked the capacity to maximize data for higher purposes...

Accelerating Education Through the Information Age

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In 2011, SDP Fellows Richard Bowman and Sade Bonilla set out to prove that greater data use was possible in New Mexico. “The path from data generation to use… is not simple, automatic, or quick. The seemingly straightforward story of information supply...

Working with Local Businesses to Fund the Fellowship

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Long-time SDP partner Atlanta Public Schools knew they wanted to continue participating in the Strategic Data Project fellowship. Faced with a lack of flexibility in the budget, they decided to get creative. Rachel Sprecher, APS Executive Director of the...

Reimagining How Schools Talk to Families: Using Communication, Connection, and Care

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Every once in a while, a project comes along that is deceptively simple in its premise but profound in its ambition. For Yuzhu Xia, Cohort 16 Fellow of the Strategic Data Project (SDP) and Evaluation and Data Manager at Boston Public Schools' (BPS)...

Stepping Up in a Time of Change: How SDP Fellows Lead With Evidence

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Five months into their fellowship, a pandemic upended education data as we know it. In October 2019, I first met the 11th cohort of Strategic Data Project Fellows in Cambridge, MA, on Harvard’s campus. We spent a few days together with the fellows’...

All RISE: A Statewide Longitudinal Data System in New Mexico

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We’re not trying to improve K–12 metrics for the sake of those metrics—we’re trying to improve them to help students get to the next step. -Joseph Leakakos and Kathryn Zenoni How many New Mexico children start kindergarten ready to learn? How many...