ESA Work Group Charter

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Last updated: Sep 03, 2024 by David Clements
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Mission

The Educational Service Agency (ESA) Work Group is an entity within the Ed-Fi Governance structure and is intended to enhance ESA’s (and on behalf of member LEAs) engagement in, input into and use of the Ed-Fi data and technology standards.

Statement of Purpose

The ESA work group’s main purpose is to represent the perspectives of the ESAs operating in the Ed-Fi Community to the Ed-Fi Governance processes with the purpose of making the Ed-Fi data and technology standards more widely adopted and used. The ESA may make recommendations through the Ed-Fi Governance processes about investment in the Ed-Fi product roadmap and business strategies. 

Goals

The goals for the Work Group include:

  1. Prioritization: Identify and prioritize potential Ed-Fi data model and/or technology enhancements needed to positively impact ESA’s capabilities to onboard and serve LEAs with priority use cases support, and to provide right-sized solutions for small and rural LEAs as well as for medium and large LEAs across a range of technical capabilities.
  2. Interoperability: Support and empower ESAs to drive native vendor integration and data exchange to/from key applications, using data in secure ecosystems within LEAs, across LEAs, and with SEAs where applicable.
  3. Reporting: Enhance the ability of ESAs to provide useful data tools to LEA members for analytics, reporting, and data visualization, including downstream uses such as state accountability reporting when applicable.
  4. Impact: Harness ESA's abilities to impact the whole Ed-Fi community through increased LEA adoption, field feedback and adoption of new releases and versions, testing and incubating of RFCs, and through increased usage of high priority and shared use cases.
  5. Best practices:  Document and contribute back to the community the best practices that have worked in other ESAs.  
  6. Shared development: Identify, prioritize and pursue projects that can be developed and shared by ESA resources.

Operations

The ESA work group will operate under guidelines set forth in the “Community Work Groups Operations Charter”.