Date
Attendees
Goals
- Define an initial Early Warning Use Case to use
Discussion items
Early Warning Indicators
Rule Based: There is an EDAM group that is looking at students at risk of not graduate. This group is looking at what factors will affect graduation.
Would want to distinguish this use case a bit more, so that EDAM group efforts are not being duplicated.
Discussion on focus:
Elementary school does not have a lot of data and the grades are harder to capture.
High school is more attractive for integrators because there is money assigned for high schools to work on data.
Discipline might be another option, it is not very granular and there is a gap on what is offered out there.
Districts push back on working with discipline data, they don't want to share that level of data if it is not required for state reporting they don't want to share that and risk that data getting out to the community and affecting
Having a PBIS (positive behavior intervention support) not a state reporting tool, this is a tool to give you a way to view behavior patterns, for example knowing that during the time that students are waiting for the bus is when more incidents happen
Should we consider adding discipline as a measure in early warning.
In Mississippi discipline is not considered an important or relevant indicator
Based on research and in his group (education analytics) they base it on attendance, discipline and grades (maybe credits depending on graduation plan). Starting on these indicators.
Need to be able to think about local distributions so that school districts can take action which is where they can take advantage. At the superintendent level, they can look at 4000 students so there has to be an aggregate level in a meaningful way.
At the site level, you need the ability to set a cut point. At the district level we need to see everyone at the same level. At the site level you have different resources to work with so it will have to be flexible.
Can we consider social emotional measures, at the district level when we talk with site administrator we always talk about life changes that are not being measured or tracked but have a big impact if it was made available.
What data is available currently?
There are in-school/out of school suspension that matter and can be used and not a bad place to start.
In Mississippi high school data is too late, we need to capture this a lot earlier.
There is a lot of data, why don't we look into this and pick one sample and work through it. Start with the things that we know across the board affect students, after the MVP allow the schools and districts extend the model to tailor it t them.
There must be 3-5 indicators that would work across the board.
Probabilistic - Wisconsin is a good example where they are using Algorithms to identify kids at risk but may not know what indicator mix resulted in kids.
How do we find tooling to share among themselves, so technically what can we do better.
Does it make sense to piggy back of the Metro Nashville work, so this group can take a look at what they are doing and make it open source.
Schools and 9th graders come together in a common indicator. How do we understand if the changes we are making are improving or not. Must consider longitudinal data to show how much is efforts are working.
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