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 Participation:

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Last Name

Organization

SusanBearden         InnovateEDU
BrianBoyd                Leon County Schools, FL
SeanCaseyEd-Fi Alliance
DavidClements       Ed-Fi Alliance
LaraHussain             Denver Public Schools
TreahHutchings       InnovateEDU
MargarethLegaspi   Verite Group, Inc.
ChrisMoffatt            Ed-Fi Alliance
AnaQuintana          Crocus
HollyStarr                 Hourglass Education Technology Solutions
LyriaZeh                    MSDF

Support
Ann Su - Ed-Fi Governance Support

The meeting was held on 2021-05-13, 9:30 am - 10:45 am CT, via WebEx

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  • Provide input into and feedback on the Alliance's work to deliver a Starter Kit focused on Student Equity
    • Ed-Fi map to local descriptors - opportunity to include
    • Hourglass - interested in ability of assessment to capture performance equitability
    • InnovateEDU
      • Toolkit adding measurement for elementary school program
      • Requirements for SPED students - included under general education program
      • Digital equity - student access to technology - don’t have collective data
    • Denver PS
      • Collecting digital equity data during registration and update annually
      • Structures including greater breakdown of student body: transgender and mixed race
    • Verite Group
      • Working with many school districts on how to collect real time data and validate data
      • Bandwidth of report
      • Special population of students - would be great to see information that impact performance, e.g. summer school, after school, extra-curricular activity programs
        • Brian: Access to school choice program - something to consider in the future
  • Discuss the current data availability to answer these Student Equity questions
    • Mural discussion
    • Education Outcome
      • Leon County
        • Student preparation for state assessment reflected in assessment outcome
      • Verite
        • Student social well-being
      • Hourglass
        • Portfolio assessment, how do schools choose the weighing
      • Sean
        • Is participation necessary prerequisite before measuring outcome, e.g. equitable access
    • Equitable Access
      • Denver - 
        • changed perspective as access is broader due to the pandemic, multi-disciplinary
        • Measuring includes using LMS
      • Verite
        • Refining what engagement looks like
          • Sign in and a threshold of number of minutes
    • Data Collection - hard to access
      • Impact if this data is not included in the starter kit
        • Equitable assessment
          • State level assessment - accommodation provided
        • Family Situation
          •  Homeless, single parents
          •  Denver
            • Pay attention to students who are homeless or situation that make them highly mobile, but hard to track throughout the year
          • Leon County
            • Difficult to have parents provide quality data
        • Feeder/Prior School
          • Verite
            • Information is being tracked in registration after elementary school but not feeder part for prior (e.g. head start)
    • Data Quality Concern
      • Referrals and Suspension
      • Teacher Performance rating
      • Attendance History
        • Verite
          • More manageable before pandemic
          • Difficult for remote learning/hybrid/in-person
            • No all schools have automatic way to capture data
        •  Denver
          • Challenge with different situations, how to capture data
            • Minutes of virtual instructional time doesn’t equate to students being engaged for that time
        • Leon County
          • Everybody graduate despite school rules
          • Attendance history deleted before graduation
      • Disciplinary Events 
        • Crocus
          • No focused way to track events
            • Expectation and intervention can be very different
          • No available software to measure 
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    • Next Steps
      • Additional areas of data may be interested relating to student equity - included in overall view
      • Prioritize collection data based on meeting
      • Follow up meeting goals
        • Get to point where everyone can identify requirement tactics to address student equity
        • David to provide pre-meeting reading materials
      • Ed-Fi to build full set of documents, visualization with sample data, instructions to pull codes

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