Materials

• GAT kickoff session_2018_06_20.pdf
• Proposed de-compositon of Ed-Fi SIS certification.docx

Meeting Minutes

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The meeting was held via WebEx from 10:00 - 11:30 am CT.

Participation

Members:

• Chris Moffatt (Deactivated)
• Satish Pattisapu
• Stephen Fedore
• Tim Casey (Unlicensed)
• Mark Racine
• Troy Wheeler (Deactivated)
• Jami O'Toole (Deactivated)
• Maureen Wentworth

Support:

• Eric Jansson
• nwilson
• rrozzelle

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Community Work Group Updates

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Maureen reviewed FWG progress.

• There may be requests for changes to this domain as needed for ESSA. The school year being targeted for ESSA compliance is SY19-20. 
• By Dec. 2018, Arizona needs to have a plan on what they want to publish from a finance and accountability aspect.  This is a good example of the tension there may be for a work group around problem and solution and lining up with Ed-Fi timelines. 
• The polling process will allow discovery of the sense of urgency and timeline concerns on a more comprehensive scale. 

Eric reviewed AWG progress.

• A charter has been drafted that includes overall goals and initial focus areas. 
• He confirmed that the Ed-Fi work stream around today’s assessment API is being run parallel to the AWG and by the summit there should be a proposal on recommended revisions.

Discussion on TAG proposal: “Decomposition of Certification”

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The discussion on decomposition ended with recommendation to send the proposal back to the TAG for further review. After further discussion on the topic amongst Alliance GAT members, we propose to continue the discussion within the GAT at the next monthly meeting, in order to provide more guidance and direction as to next steps.

Action Items

•  Maureen Wentworth will follow-up with Tulsa on what extensions are being considered in the finance domain.
•  Eric Jansson will ask Dean and Ted about visualization vs. analytics.
•  GAT members need to request Ed-Fi SSO login to access Governance space on TechDocs.
•  GAT members should review the GAT organizing charter and provide any feedback.
•  A request was made to create (and maintain) an inventory of assessment projects and inititatives initiatives across the Ed-Fi Community. Chris Moffatt (Deactivated) is cordinating the initial draft.
•  GAT needs to review work group charters for the AWG and FWG. This is likely towards the end of the year
•  A decision is needed on when work group charters become final – either as drafted with revision process in place or not until six months after introduction with time for input and revisions or??
•  Future GAT topics: How do we make progress on data push out from customizable systems?
  (Additional context: Many systems in K12 are highly customizable, and this makes it difficult for vendors to comply to a data exchange standard since doing so now involves working around localized business logic. For their part, agencies want data served up and managed so as to reflect their processes, but this means that “certification” does not result in “plug and play.” Certification starts to look misleading, since it can’t account for local customization.
•  The proposal on decomposition of certification will be resumed at the next GAT meeting, to provide more guidance and direction on next steps on the proposal.
•  Request was made for future GAT discussion on visualization and dashboard disposition.
•  GAT members to be polled to determine best monthly GAT meeting date and time. 

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