Mission

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Mission

The Educational Service Agency (ESA) Work Group is an entity within the Ed-Fi Governance structure and is intended to enhance LEA collaboratives’ ESA’s (and on behalf of member LEAs) engagement in, input into and use of the Ed-Fi data and technology standards.

Statement of Purpose

The CWG’s ESA work group’s main purpose is to represent the perspectives of the LEA collaboratives ESAs operating in the Ed-Fi Community to the Ed-Fi Governance processes with the purpose of making the Ed-Fi data and technology standards more widely adopted and used. The CWG ESA may make recommendations through the Ed-Fi Governance processes about investment in the Ed-Fi product roadmap and business strategies. 

Goals

The goals for the Work Group include:

1. Prioritization: Establish a forum for identifying and prioritizing Identify and prioritize potential Ed-Fi data model and/or technology enhancements most needed to positively impact collaboratives’ ESA’s capabilities to onboard and serve LEAs with priority LEA use cases ; facilitate vendor support for data exchange to/from key applications for those LEAs; streamline downstream data use such as state accountability reporting; and support, and to provide right-sized solutions for small and rural LEAs through as well as for medium and large LEAs with across a range of technical capabilities.
2. Improved interoperability: Enhance the ability of collaboratives to integrate systems and share data in a secure ecosystem for (within) Interoperability: Support and empower ESAs to drive native vendor integration and data exchange to/from key applications, using data in secure ecosystems within LEAs, across LEAs, and with SEAs where applicable.
3. Improved reportingReporting: Enhance the ability of collaboratives ESAs to provide compelling tools and solution choice for the purposes of useful data tools to LEA members for analytics, reporting, and data visualization, serving as a Data As A Service type of offering for members LEAs.
4. Privacy and security (across multiple use cases) Include?
5. Impact of collaboratives: Enhance the capabilities of collaboratives including downstream uses such as state accountability reporting when applicable.
6. Impact: Harness ESA's abilities to impact the whole Ed-Fi community , not just their region. Foster rapid adoption and field feedback of new versions, releasesthrough increased LEA adoption, field feedback and adoption of new releases and versions, testing and incubating of RFCs, and development of new field-validated use cases to drive maximum value and impact for LEAs and the community at largethrough increased usage of high priority and shared use cases.
7. Best practices:  Document and contribute back to the community the best practices that have worked for your collaborativein other ESAs.  
8. Shared development: Identify, prioritize and pursue projects that can be developed and shared by collaborative ESA resources.

Initial Focus Areas

The initial focus areas for the Work Group include:

1. Collect and inventory use cases, extensions, member and pipeline data
2. Create backlog of requests, needs, and supports across collaboratives, and prioritize them.
3. Identify enablers or blockers of growth for collaboratives.
4. Create a model of recommended practices, reusable artifacts, and playbook supports to grow a set of health metrics for existing and new collaboratives to support sustainability and growth goals.

Operations

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Operations

The ESA work group will operate under guidelines set forth in the “Community Work Groups Operations Charter”.