Mission

The State Education Agency Workgroup (SEA Workgroup) is an established entity within the Ed-Fi Governance structure and is intended to enhance SEA 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 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:

1. Prioritization process: Continue the SEA Collaboration Practice for identifying potential Ed-Fi data model and technology enhancements to address SEA needs and pain points to positively impact student achievement.
2. Improved interoperability: Enhance the ability to integrate systems like Assessment, Special Education, Early Childhood, etc. and share data in a secure ecosystem.
3. Synchronize SEA and LEA data requests: reduce variation and drive discussions collaboratively among LEAs, SEAs and SISs using established approaches and emerging use cases such as learning modality, digital equity, etc.  

Initial Focus Areas

The initial focus areas for the Work Group include:

1. 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 state extension models.  
   • Work collaboratively with vendors and local education agencies (LEAs) to enable better dialog around new and emerging use cases and model changes streamlining the work across SEAs, LEAs, and the vendor community.  
   • 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”.