Agenda

1. Ed-Fi Leadership Update
2. Review The Alliance's 2020 Plans
3. Overview of 2020 Technical Congress
4. Governance Updates
5. Ed-Fi in the News

Link to meeting PPT

Participation

Members:

• dean.folkers 
• John Raub
• Billy Buchanan (Deactivated)
• Monica Hogan
• Mark Olofson
• Veronica Amundson
• satish.pattisapu
• Mark Racine (Unlicensed)
• Eric Miller (Deactivated)
• Jon Berry (Unlicensed)
• Chris Moffatt (Deactivated)
• Troy Wheeler (Deactivated)
• Maureen Wentworth
• Jami O'Toole (Deactivated)

Support:

• rrozzelle

Meeting Minutes

Refer to the meeting PPT for additional details on the meeting minutes and discussions.

When available, meeting minutes should be read, and any corrections sent to Chris.

Review of the Alliance's 2020 Plans

The overall 2020 Plan has 5 focus areas for the Alliance leadership team:

1. Break down vendor barriers to efficiently providing districts data (outside of state reporting)
2. Create crystal clear onboarding, training, and support paths
3. Accelerate Ed-Fi adoption in pre-existing & geographically bounded collaboratives
4. Reinforcing the notion “Why wouldn’t you use Ed-Fi?”
5. Deliver strategic roadmap items informed from direct community feedback

GAT members stressed the importance of: support to districts and continued assistance to connect the ODS/API to SIS and assessment vendors (especially rostering).

The 2020 Plan also addresses the following key areas of focus:

1. SEA Focus: Includes integration of Ed-Fi and CEDS; SEA playbook; promotion of the Finance API RFC; assessment rostering; exploration of support for CRDC. GAT members offered support for or interest in: the Finance RFC (Arizona), CRDC (Texas), SEA collaboration with vendors (Nebraska), and stressed the importance of  engaging vendors in state discussions and decisions that affect them.
2. LEA and LEA Collaboratives Focus: Includes investments in onboarding and training; defining key characteristics for successful ESC and Collaborative support for Ed-Fi; initiatives to address use case collision LEA's and SEA's ; quick-launch cohorts.
3. Vendor Focus: Includes promotion of the badging program; vendor outreach strategy; certification for 10 new assessment vendors; contributions to Ed-Fi code base.
4. TPDM Focus: Includes: continue to raise awareness among TPPs and SEAs; Foster 2 to 3 new TPP projects; an RFC to include TPDM in core release of ODS/API.
5. Governance and Technology Roadmap: Includes supporting community work groups and use cases to evolve data model and standards governance; clarify contracts between agencies and vendors for data exchange; cadence of platform releases; address blockers to broader LEA and ESC adoption of Suite 3; core release of analytics middle tier.
6. Communications and Community Engagement: Includes showcasing the community; segmenting the newsletter into different audiences; equipping Leadership Council to be advocates for Ed-Fi

Overview of 2020 Technical Congress

This is the 4^th Tech Congress and will be held April 20-22 in San Diego. The tier 1 work groups will convene during the main session.  The GAT will convene also, likely during breakfast, which the group expressed support for.  See Event Details and Proposed Sessions for more information.

Governance Updates

There were three Tier 3 governance approvals: 

• The 2 RFCs previously reviewed with the GAT were approved using the new voting process. See Promotion of RFC 15 to a standard and Promotion of RFC 16 to a standard.
• The Internationalization Work Group (IWG) is the newest tier 1 governance work group to be formed, and the charter had been approved.  A chair and co-chair are to be identified.

A replacement "at-large" representative is to be named to replace Steven Fedore.

Ed-Fi in the News

Two articles were discussed that mentioned Ed-Fi:

• Students Face a Troubling Skills Gap Around Career Readiness. We’re Fixing It With Data (EdSurge)
• DataViz builds easy-to-use education data analytics tools on Google Cloud and Data Studio (Google Education)

The meeting was adjourned.

Action Items

• Maureen to connect with John Raub and Dean to discuss further the influence that states can have with vendors.
• Rick to send John Raub list of assessment vendors and their certification status.
• Plan to do a deeper dive on vendor strategy at the next GAT meeting