Upgrade your Student Information System

Virginia is holding a School Division Grant Competition to help school division's upgrade their data collection/integration. Here's a snippet from the CIT site:

As part of this grant VDOE will allocate funding to Virginia school divisions that may be pursing their own development and data integration projects. The purpose of the Division LDS Competition is to encourage and to finance data projects at the division level which will advance both the goals of the Statewide Longitudinal Database System program, as well as the four federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) specific goals:

* Making progress toward rigorous college- and career-ready standards and high-quality assessments that are valid and reliable for all students.
* Establishing pre-K to college and career data systems that track progress and foster continuous improvement.
* Making improvements in teacher effectiveness and in the equitable distribution of qualified teachers for all students.
* Providing intensive support and effective interventions for the lowest-performing schools.

http://www.cit.org/programs/cit-connect/vdoe-dc

If you're interested in learning more about how some divisions are collaborating to win their share of the multi-million dollar grant, email me.

The Golden Age that we've been waiting for?

I did a presentation at the Virginia Education Technology and Leadership Conference entitled "10 “Reasonable” demands to make to turn your SIS into a SAS, a Student Achievement System".

In the presentation I posited that we might be entering into a "Golden Age" for educators in terms of integrating our student information systems with content and teaching.

Email me if you're interested in getting a copy of the presentation.