This charter is in currently in draft status, pending review and approval by the Governance Advisory Team.
Mission
The State Education Agency Workgroup (SEA Workgroup) is an established entity within the Ed-Fi Governance structure and is intended to enhance the SEAs engagement in, input into and use of the Ed-Fi data and technology standards.
Statement of Purpose
The SEA Workgroup’s main purpose is to represent the perspectives of the SEA community to the Ed-Fi Governance processes with the purpose of addressing the use cases that emerge from the SEA community using the Ed-Fi data model and making the Ed-Fi data and technology standards more widely adopted and used. The SEA -WG may make recommendations through the Ed-Fi Governance processes about investment in the Ed-Fi technology roadmap and business strategies.
Goals
The goals for the Work Group include:
- Prioritization process: Continue the SEA Collaboration Practice for identifying potential Ed-Fi data model and technology enhancements to address the SEA needs and pain points to positively impact student achievement.
- Improved interoperability: Enhance the ability to integrate systems like Assessment, Special Education, Early Childhood, etc. and share data in a secure ecosystem.
- Synchronize SEA and LEA data requests by reducing variation and by driving discussions collaboratively among LEAs, SEAs and SISs using the established approaches such as learning modality, digital equity, etc.
Initial Focus Areas
The initial focus areas for the Work Group include:
- Collect and inventory new SEA use cases.
- Work collaboratively to provide the initial content for Ed-Fi data model changes, including suggestions/proposals for the core data model and sharing of extension models.
- Work with vendors and LEAs to enable them to understand the new use cases and model changes as when it gets fleshed out thus making the Vendor and LEA community to be part of the work.
- Encourage and enrich community collaboration through which the data model enhancements and data exchanges are standardized thus reducing the burden on the vendors.
Operations
SEA Work Group operates under guidelines set forth in the “Community Work Groups Operations Charter” with the following exception:
In order to avoid any conflict of interest or favoritism – real or perceived – in current or future state education agency procurements, the SEA Work Group is limited to state education agency staff only. In all other ways the SEA Work Group operates under guidelines set forth in the “Community Work Groups Operations Charter”.