This week we talk with two leaders from the Metropolitan School District (MSD) of Steuben County in Angola, Indiana, Chantell Manahan (Director of Technology) and Dr. Schauna Relue (Curriculum Director). Over the past two years, our guests have worked as a close, cross-sectional team on the district’s use cases for student and district improvement as part of their implementation of the Ed-Fi data standard. In the episode, we discuss their strategies for data governance, the importance of professional development and support in changing data practices, and ways in which technology can enhance data-driven improvement processes such as “data war rooms.”

Show notes and abbreviations:

Metropolitan School District (MSD) of Steuben County - https://www.msdsteuben.k12.in.us/

CETL certification from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Certified Educational Technology Leader https://www.cosn.org/careers-certification/cetl-certification/

NWEA (MAP - Measures of Academic Progress test from the Northwest Evaluation Association) https://www.nwea.org/the-map-suite/

CSV files: https://www.howtogeek.com/348960/what-is-a-csv-file-and-how-do-i-open-it/

SIS: student information system

RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) Matrix: https://cio-wiki.org/wiki/RACI_Matrix

WIDA: An assessment of academic English levels for non-native English speakers (https://wida.wisc.edu/)

Eidex: https://www.eidexinsights.com/

Michigan DataHub: https://open.spotify.com/episode/43wLYDeU6Mi73ViGnW2d2u?si=3MmlfGVUTzC2hA1yY4_qoQ

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