Participation:
First Name | Last Name | Organization |
| Susan | Bearden | InnovateEDU |
| Brian | Boyd | Leon County Schools, FL |
| Sean | Casey | Ed-Fi Alliance |
| David | Clements | Ed-Fi Alliance |
| Lara | Hussain | Denver Public Schools |
| Treah | Hutchings | InnovateEDU |
| Margareth | Legaspi | Verite Group, Inc. |
| Chris | Moffatt | Ed-Fi Alliance |
| Ana | Quintana | Crocus |
| Holly | Starr | Hourglass Education Technology Solutions |
| Lyria | Zeh | 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
Meeting recording link
Agenda/Meeting Notes
- Review and Prioritize the Student Equity requirements contributed by Leon County - Brian Boyd
- Leon County School Requirements
- Key issues identified for addressing student equity
- Inconsistency
- Data integration
- Lack of real-time data
- 5 main reports for dashboard
- Secondary Programs
- Teachers (by experience and performance)
- General Education
- Discipline Outcomes
- Assessments
- 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
- Refining what engagement looks like
- 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)
- Verite
- Equitable assessment
- Impact if this data is not included in the starter kit
- 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
- Verite
- Disciplinary Events
- Crocus
- No focused way to track events
- Expectation and intervention can be very different
- No available software to measure
- 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
Action Items
- David to provide pre-meeting reading materials
Next Meeting:
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