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• 15 Advanced Metrics for Superintendents

  Knowing what to look for is half the battle. These 15 datapoints and four overarching categories can boost any superintendent's ability to effectively analyze data. 

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• 1974: A Brief History of Student Data Privacy

  A lot can change in 40 years, but the guiding piece of legislation protecting the privacy of student education records remains the same. Do you have a clear understanding of FERPA? How about the rest of your team? Get caught up in less than five minutes with this video.

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• 3 Reasons to Push for Change in District Edtech

  Invest in positive change for the district’s future even when the process takes time today.

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• 5 Ways to Track SEL Efforts

  How do you measure the important business of social-emotional growth and wellbeing without falling back on emojis and sticker charts? Here are five data-driven strategies for social-emotional learning in your district.

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• Automate Absenteeism Letters and Keep Kids Learning

  Missing a few faces in the classrooms of your school? It’s time to make attendance reminders easier.

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• Brace for Impact: School Data and Disasters

  Losing access to student data is its own brand of disaster. Prepare by devising an airtight recovery plan.

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• Data Legislation in Review via the Data Quality Campaign

  Anticipating a wave of legislation designed to keep humanity safe from AI, let’s take a look back on years of K12 data legislation.

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• District Decisions Supported by Data

  Making high-level decisions is tough, but district leaders can rely on data visualization to support the process.

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• EdTech Playbook: School Data

  Data-driven is just a catchphrase, until it's not. In the world of education, learning how to turn data into insight is one of the most valuable changes you can make at the classroom, building, and district level. 

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• Fact Check: 3 Examples of Data Gone Wrong

  How far should you trust the data? About as far as you can throw it, if these examples are any indication.

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• FERPA and Your Student Information System

  Student information systems are the default location for most educational records, but how do you balance the need for speed and access with legal privacy obligations?

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• Future-Proof Record Retention

  As districts update SIS and ERP solutions, how can they ensure long-term records are retained and safe?

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• Gen Z is Bad at Cybersecurity

  Turns out digital natives aren't the best cybersleuths.

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• Get to the Heart of Disruptive Behavior

  Even though most administrators and educators agree that behavioral issues impede learning, few are consistently recording and analyzing behavioral data. In this article, we explore the strategies that will help you get to the heart of disruptive behavior.

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• Guest Post: Records Retention 101

  To keep or to purge student records? It's crucial to learn and practice your state's guidelines. Learn how one data manager practiced smart purging and retention processes.

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• How Behavior Data Helps Retain Teachers

  K12 schools face a behavior disaster. A data-driven approach to student behavior is within reach.

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• How Data Standards Safeguard School Data from Ransomware

  Data standards make life easier in many ways—one of the most valuable is protecting school networks and data.

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• How Does Cloud Hosting Keep Your Data Safe?

  Is cloud hosting and storage the way to go to protect your district's data? Let's break down the pros and cons.

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• Let's Change the Integration Conversation

  Is product x compatible with product y? More importantly, is that even the right question to ask anymore?

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• Let's Take a Phishing Trip

  Learn how to run a successful simulated phishing program! It just might prevent employees from falling hook, line, and sinker for real-life scams.

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• Let's Talk About Educational Data Analytics

  What happens between data and decisions? Analysis.

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• Make Your Data Work for You

  A wealth of data becomes actionable in 4 steps.

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• Making Data Work for People

  Data is only as good as the insight it leads to and the headaches it prevents.

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• Optimize Student Data as an Agent for Change

  By grasping where students stand through comprehensive, accessible data, district leaders can improve the education experience for students.

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• Playing Nice: The EdTech Interoperability Landscape

  Someday we may see an edtech system that can do everything. Until that happens, interoperability is the new standard.

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• Recognize These 5 Phishing Email Patterns

  Use pattern recognition to identify and stop phishing attacks in your district.

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• Record Health Data Using Your SIS

  Looking for a way to keep health data records? Your solution may already be at your fingertips. 

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• School Districts for Ransom

  Prevention is the name of the game when it comes to battling ransomware. Cover your bases by securing effective backups, training (and retraining) your staff, and considering secure cloud storage.   

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• Share Your Opinions for a Better Experience

  What makes you tick? Answer a 30-second survey and earn our unwavering esteem.

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• Student Success Tracking: Essential Tasks, Automated

  How can educational data analytics streamline student success tracking?

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• Test Scores: The RBI of Student Data

  For the first 100+ years of baseball's existence, the run-batted-in (RBI) stood in the pantheon of baseball card statistics. Only recently did we come to the realization that the RBI was more a product of luck, environment and opportunity than a definining attribute of a hitter. Sound familiar?

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• The Cost of Proactive vs. Reactive Data Security

  Investing in K12 data security pays off. Here’s how to stretch your dollar.

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• The Data Security Starting Five

  It takes a wide range of roles and skills working together to keep data safe. How does your district’s lineup compare to this security all-star squad? 

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• The Golden Rule of Interoperability

  Treat others’ private data the way you’d want yours to be protected.

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• The One-Way Valve of Interoperability

  Not only does interoperability reduce dual entry and ensure information stays up to date, but it keeps your data secure too.

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• The True Cost of a K12 Data Breach

  Monetary costs are only a fraction.

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• Too Much Access: The FERPA Compliance Gap

  What does the "legitimate educational interest" clause of FERPA have to do with your SIS? Here's how you can avoid the kind of audit failures that have plagued school districts throughout the country.

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• Use Predictive Education Insights to Improve Student Growth

  When data automation works in educators’ favor, they can predict student outcomes.

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• Use Task-Based Permission to Tighten Edtech Security

  How system admins assign permissions makes a big difference in keeping data secure. 

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• Using Multifactor Authentication

  If you've ever heard pushback about how MFA is "too much work," here's an explainer to illustrate its importance.

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• Vetting Apps Across the District

  6 red flags for applications used in classrooms with students.

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• We Need You to Fight Ransomware in K12 Schools

  It's everyone's job to protect school data. Let's look at what we should all do before, during, and after a ransomware attack.

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• What's New in EdTech Interoperability?

  When systems work nicely together, everyone saves time—time they can devote to teaching and learning. Learn what’s new in the world of edtech data interoperability for K12 schools. 

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