NCES Summer Data ConferenceJuly 2009Kathy GosaKansas State Department of Education

Forum Product Kansas Initiative

Forum Guide to Metadata Metadata 101 professional development

Managing an Identity Crisis Materials & guidance for LEAs to implement Race-Ethnicity regulations

Data Quality Curriculum Data Quality Certification program

Building a Culture of Data Quality Data Quality Certification program

Secondary School Course Classification System (SCED)

Kansas Course Codes

Accounting for Every Student KIDS Collection System

Education Indicators KIDS Collection System

Elementary / Secondary Virtual Education

Policy development

We will be the ones who implement them.

Will we just wait to see what happens?OR

Will we participate and ensure the standards

√ build on what’s already in place√ are feasible√ are technically excellent

Our national leaders recognize that information is key to making a

difference in education.

Never before have the resources, the political will, and the common focus

around education come together quite so intensely as they are today.

We can’t expect to do the same thing in the same way and get different

results.

Agree on our vision for the Forum’s role

Perform a Gap AnalysisPrioritize tasks and take action

Standing committees consider a common vision for the Forum’s role.

Identify the components of that vision Common definitions, indicators, platforms, data

model Standards for interoperability

Determine our action steps and priorities Consider our current products Leverage state’s experience and best practices

Who/How will we move forward? Working Groups and Task Forces? Standing Committees and the Steering Committee? Partnerships with SHEEO, DQC, AYPF, CCSSO and

EIMAC, Vendors, SIFA and PESC, Others?

Proposed Vision:

The Forum will act as the authoritative body for The Forum will act as the authoritative body for defining and maintaining National Education Data defining and maintaining National Education Data

Standards.Standards. Inventory (Forum products and other best

practices) Gap (brainstorm what still needs to be done to

reach our vision) Priority (what has to be done now, and what can

wait? Phase 1; Phase 2; Phase 3) Plan (who should be responsible and what is the

timeline?)