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1. Vermont’s Education Data Warehouse (EDW) Built by a Partnership Between
the Vermont Data Consortium and the Vermont Department of Education
3. Why are we here? In most schools we have a tremendous amount of data, but we lack information because we can not easily see the patterns that exist.
Somewhere in the maze of state assessments, local assessments, standardized tests, perception surveys, pilot projects, and demographic information lie answers and important insights to our most important questions:
What’s working?
What’s not working?
How can we improve the education for all of our students?
The Vermont Department of Education and the Vermont Data Consortium are committed to develop a system that supports educators and policy makers in data-based decision making for school improvement.
4. What is the Education Data Warehouse? It is not a Student Management System (daily transactional system)
It is:
a collection of data from multiple data sources
a place to easily view and analyze data
a key support to data-driven decision making
5. Who is the Vermont Data Consortium (VDC)? Addison Central SU
Addison Northeast SU
Addison Northwest SU
Addison Rutland SU
Barre SU
Bennington Rutland SU
Caledonia North SU
Chittenden Central SU
Chittenden South SU
Franklin Northeast SU
Lamoille North SU
Lamoille South SU North Country SU
Orange Windsor SU
Orleans Southwest SU
Rutland Central SU
Rutland City SD
Rutland Northeast SU
South Burlington SD
Washington Central SU
Washington South SU
Windham Northeast SU
Windham Southeast SU
6. Where we have been: Initial investigation of products and services by local schools and districts – Fall 2002
Interested schools and districts form Vermont Data Consortium (VDC) – Fall 2003
Commissioner Cate proposes a partnership between the DOE and VDC and recommends that a project team be formed – Dec 2003
VDC and DOE hire staff for project – May 2004 (Note: Some of the initial staff are still involved with the project.)
7. Where we have been: (cont.) Finalize MOU with DOE – May 2004
RFP developed and issued July 2004, re-issued August 2004
Detailed evaluation and selection process – Sept to Nov 2004
Select vendor (TetraData) and negotiate contract – December 2004
Begin work with contractor – February 2005
VDC moves into their first office in Montpelier – July 2005
VDC hires two additional part time staff– July 2005
8. Where we have been: (cont.) Initial trainings with EDW – July, August, September 2005
Additional DOE, SU, and school staff trained – Fall 2005
Security (initial user accounts available) – Oct 2005
Professional development focusing on data-based decision making for school improvement with nationally-recognized consultant, Dr. Victoria Bernhardt – Nov & Dec 2005
9. Where we have been: (cont.) VDC personnel trained on TetraData Local Warehouse building process – Winter/Spring 2006
First SU warehouses with integrated local-state data – April-June 2006
VDC personnel begin supporting with SUs/SDs on local data extracts – April 2006
Additional VDC Members have initial local data integrated with state data – Fall 2006
10. Where we have been: (cont.) Summer/Fall 2007 – Expansion of the local warehouse model (more assessments, attendance, discipline, program/intervention, extra-curricular, standards-based report card)
Winter 2008 – First annual NECAP workshops planned to work with NECAP summary and item level data
School Year 2008-2009 – DOE grant allows VDC to provide basic membership to all Vermont SUs/SDs
11. VDC Benefits Data Access: Access (as appropriate) to all data in the system down to the individual student level AND access to full suite of data warehouse analysis tools
Local Data: Ability to add local data to the system and relate it to State data
Training and Professional Development
Collaboration: Share data queries & reports as well as local assessment info, data-based decision making, etc.
12. VDC Membership
13. Contact Info Go to “Contact Us” section of our website for the most current info:
http://www.vermontdata.org/contactus.htm