Texas Education Agency November 2011

Brian Rawson, Director-Statewide Data Initiatives, Texas Education AgencySharon Gaston, TSDS Project Technical Director, Texas Education Agency

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Agenda

TSDS System Overview

TSDS Technical Architecture Overview

Demonstration – Limited Production Release

Wrap-up & Q&A

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Texas At a Glance

4.7M Students 57% Economically Disadvantaged 17% Limited English Proficient

1,235 Districts & charters 87% have < 5,000 students Largest 46 districts (25K+ students)

enroll 50% of students 20 Education Service Centers

Source: 2008-2009 Pocket Edition

$39B Annual Operating Expenditures

$8,342/student

Quick Facts

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TSDS Delivers 4 Major Components

State-sponsored SIS EDW PEIMS TPEIR

Two state contracts Opt-in, voluntary SIS

offering TSDS will integrate

with other SIS’s – no requirement or mandate to switch

SaaS model Low cost, enhanced

functionality

Powers student, classroom, campus, district data snapshots

System supported by the state but the data only available to educators

Will become conduit to submit PEIMS data

Loading of non-PEIMS data is strictly optional and at the districts’ discretion

XML-based Texas Education Data Standard (TEDS) will make it easier to submit and certify data

TEDS will leverage CEDS & Ed-Fi data standards to the extent practical

Expanded to link pre-K, college readiness, and workforce data

Load college readiness test score collections (SAT, ACT, AP Test data)

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District Environment Only

TEA Environment Only

How TSDS Will Work

State-sponsore

d SIS

DistrictSIS

EDW PEIMS TPEIRPEIMS data

PEIMS data

Districts submit data

4x/year

Voluntary data

Voluntary data

Scorecards filled out with as

much data as

districts upload

TEA will connect K-12

data with pre-K, college

readiness, workforce

data

Cert

ify/V

alid

ate

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Anticipated Solution Benefits

Alleviate data collection burden on school districts

A platform to deliver relevant and actionable data back to educators to

continually improve student performance (e.g. early warning system)

Improved data quality through ongoing data validation

Seamless integration with SSIS

Common tools – leverage of best practice

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TSDS EDW Solution Components

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TSDS Data Flow/Data Validation

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TSDS Data Standard

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TSDS Milestones

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Stakeholder Engagement Approach

Reach broad cross section of educator audience to validate value proposition

Build awareness and momentum for adoption of voluntary components

Efficiently gather very detailed input

Integrate feedback ‘real time’ and document lessons learned

Establish systematic feedback mechanism for ongoing user involvement

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Key working relationships are critical to TSDS success

Education Service Centers

School Districts

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Texas Education

Agency

Critical conduit for implementation

and technical assistance

Intimate understanding of

pain points, needs and priorities

First-hand understanding of

complexities based on work in 15

diverse districts

Resources to accelerate

development

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Initial Prototypes

28,860 students 3,519 staff 61 campuses (4 high schools)

Dashboards – high school De-identify student and teacher

information Power student, classroom and

campus snapshots

18,715 students 2,402 staff 22 campuses (1 high school)

Dashboards – elementary & middle school

Imported longitudinal data

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Live Demonstration

Texas TSDS Limited

Production Release (v1.1)

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Wrap-Up

Question & Answer

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