New States SIG - 2024-08-21

Participants

First Name

Last Name

Organization

First Name

Last Name

Organization

Christine

Armstrong

Kansas State Department of Education

Julie

Cook

Kansas State Department of Education

Christopher

Fletcher

Kansas State Department of Education

Jennifer

Shaffer

Kansas State Department of Education

Bonnie

Mengwasser

Missouri DESE

Tanya

Steward

Missouri DESE

Vydu

Draksharam

Utah State Board of Education

Don

Modde

Utah State Board of Education

Mark

Waddoups

Utah State Board of Education

Cassidy

Canzani

Vermont Education Agency

David

Kelley

Vermont Education Agency

James

Nadeau

Vermont Education Agency

Steven

Arnold

Ed-Fi Alliance

Kathleen

Browning

Ed-Fi Alliance

Michael

Minuto

Ed-Fi Alliance

Support: Ann Su, Ed-Fi Alliance

WebEx Recording LINK https://edfi.webex.com/edfi/ldr.php?RCID=970f31c1c3f1deb5f601a56de8a9196a

Meeting Material

Agenda and Notes

  • Welcome and introduction

    • Welcome Missouri to Ed-Fi Alliance

      • Customer Support Team, Kathleen is the account manager for Missouri

    • Missouri status

      • Working with Double Line for the project that started last June

      • Waiting for SIS vendor to complete development and get certified

      • Have data validation portal - where LEA can verify after uploading data

      • Focus on training for first set of pilots which start next month

      • End of year will start non-pilot LEAs and plan to go live July 2025

      • Using 23-24 data in pilot, get data synched up between now and next July

  • Ed-Fi Alliance Summit 2024

    • September 30th – October 2nd, 2024

    • San Antonio Texas

    • The Westin Riverwalk

      • Book by August 30th to ensure your room at the group rate

  • Community Forums Board Demo.

  • Ed-Fi Data Standards Extension Framework 

    • Best Practices

    • Extensions are used to add elements not included in Ed-Fi Core

    • Collaborate with the Alliance and other states for adding extensions

      • Elements may already exist but with a different name

      • Other states may have options in their models to include the elements

    • Example

      • Vermont needed to collect Federal poverty determination level data and was able to use Core data by collaborating with Ed-Fi Data Standard Team

      • Student Transportation Example

        • Various states needed extension for Student transportation module

        • Data Standard Team expanded model to include student transportation in Core

    • Mike

      • Extension has been an on-going challenge

      • What is the first step when an agency needs an extension?

        • Contact Customer Support Team/Data Standard Team

        • Collaborate with SEA Forum

Next meeting: Oct 16, 2024