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1. Welcome to New Members
2. Leadership Updates
3. Covid-19 Response
   1. Check-in with GAT members on current status and community priorities
   2. Digital Equity Data Collection
   3. Fix-It Fridays
4. Governance Activities
   1. GAT Review of 2 Proposed Ed-Fi RFC’s
   2. Proposed Adjustments to the Ed-Fi Certification Program

Link to meeting PPT

Participation

Members:

• dean.folkers
• Monica Hogan
• Mark Olofson
• Billy Buchanan
• dougquinton
• jennifer.downey
• Mark Racine (Unlicensed)
• Eric Miller (Deactivated)
• John Raub
• Maureen Wentworth
• Chris Moffatt (Deactivated)
• David Clements

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Meeting Minutes

Refer to the meeting PPT for additional details on the meeting minutes and discussions.

Previous meeting minutes can be found here.

When available, meeting minutes should be read, and any corrections sent to Chris.

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GAT Review of Proposed RFC’s

Ed-Fi RFC: Survey API (

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GOV-21)

TPDM and Alliance staff recommended this RFC which puts survey API and data domain into the core. Survey API and data are currently part of the teacher prep data model. Detailed specification and data model for this RFC are available in tech docs. COVID-19 surveys substantiate the need for the survey RFC. There are similarities with assessment domain and there was some debate over whether to combine survey and assessment domains. The RFC recommends not to combine as there is value in maintaining separate entities.

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• Were Survey Monkey, Survey Gizmo and Qualtrix contacted regarding the proposed survey API and data model? Ed-Fi to follow-up on this question
  • Ed-Fi Follow up: During the Survey RFC work, Ed-Fi technical staff performed an analysis of these vendors public API’s, and verified that the data represented in those interfaces could be mapped to Ed-Fi Survey API. Additionally, there has been some contact with these vendors by Ed-Fi community members, but to date the Alliance has not engaged with these vendors to encourage them to build support for survey in the Ed-Fi API. This is anticipated to start once the Survey RFC is approved for inclusion in Ed-Fi Core.
• Boston - recommend include Panorama in discussion as this is an important vendor for many districts for survey and SEL data.
• Also, surveys Surveys need to accommodate anonymous surveys, parent surveys, teacher surveys about students and student survey about teachers. These were discussed during AWG SEL use case discussions. EdAre these supported in the specification? Ed-Fi to follow-up on whether or not these use cases are supported by the Survey RFC.
  
  • Ed-Fi Follow up: The Ed-Fi Survey RFC supports all of the use cases mentioned above (anonymous surveys, parent surveys, teacher surveys about students and student survey about teacher). The RFC documentation should be updated to make this clearer.

Ed-Fi RFC 24: Core student API (

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GOV-22)

The proposed changes are the result of ongoing field work operationalizing the data exchange structures in RFC 16, and seek to expand the data elements or make other changes necessary to support use cases around the exchange of data for domains common to student information systems in K-12 education. The changes proposed in this RFC are intended to be non-breaking to most API clients. In order to help make the RFC non-breaking, the RFC proposes deprecation of data model elements.

GAT members will be requested to vote on advancing these 2 RFC's, via Google form to be sent out after the meeting.

Proposed Adjustments to the Ed-Fi Certification Program

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• Need to consider differences among states. In our state no district has hosted Ed-Fi; in other states state has it and some districts host, in third scenario state doesn’t have Ed-Fi but some districts do.
• Infinite Campus – they support multiple endpoints (SEA and LEA) but this is a big lift – for a small vendor this may not be reasonable. In states where there is no required state implementation for Ed-Fi this will be difficult to support.
• PowerSchool – supports multiple implementations (endpoints for SEA and LEA) – they look at SEA differently from LEA requirements.
• Fayette – what is the feasibility of a configuration file to specify SEA or LEA configurations?
  

Action Items:

•  GAT members to vote on advancing the Survey and Core Student API RFC's.

Next meeting: July 16, 2020 at noon ET

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