Establishing the Student – Teacher Connection How Hard Can It Be? ADE Information Technology Division 1 Enterprise Data Architect: Dr. Alex Jones Project Manager(s): David Plouff Program Manager: Mark Svorinic IT Programs and Projects Dept. Arizona Department of Education 1535 West Jefferson Street, Phoenix, AZ 85007

Overview Why it is hard to get the Student - Teacher connection The Work Effort Involved Possible Constraints at School Districts (Lessons Learned) Next steps IT Programs and Projects Dept. Arizona Department of Education 2

Establishing the Student – Teacher Connection How Hard Can It Be? To establish a teacher’s accountability with respect to his or her students’ academic achievement and progress in one or more content areas. ADE Information Technology Division3 Objective:

4 Math Reading Writing Science Algebra World History Mrs. Sanchez’ Homeroom Mrs. Parker’s and Mr. Johnson’s 3 rd Grade Class ? Establishing the Student – Teacher Connection How Hard Can It Be? ? Biology

Establishing the Student – Teacher Connection How Hard Can It Be? Making it Easier ADE Information Technology Division5 Adopt statewide common course codes that map each course to the appropriate assessment content area. Choose and use SMS software that accurately reflects the assignment of resources in today’s dynamic classroom. Adopt a common characterization of elementary school classes to include courses taught.

Costing for Deployment Strategy

IT Programs and Projects Dept. Arizona Department of Education 7 Cost Estimates Cont.

Possible constraints faced by each school district: IT Programs and Projects Dept. Arizona Department of Education 8 District administrative staff schedules – Assistant Superintendant – Curriculum Specialist – HR administrator – Data Manager for SIS / HR systems District IT staff schedules – Technical staff for SIS/HR systems Staff and IT skill sets Engagement with the partner districts – Engagement with the staff to determine their skill levels Districts level of technology – Do they utilize a SIS system (statewide scale)

AZ-SLDS ASU Next Phase 1 Milestones/Deliverables IT Programs and Projects Dept. Arizona Department of Education 9 March 28 th Osborn Pilot Engaged by ADE IT April 22 nd Osborn Logical Model Completed April 29 th Osborn Deployment Strategy Delivered to ASU May 20 th Osborn/ESP/ADE/ASU Approve Final Osborn Course Mapping Report June 1 st Round 2 of Deployment Strategy Model released to ASU

Short-Term - Next Steps: IT Programs and Projects Dept. Arizona Department of Education 10 Course Mapping Strategy for Statewide needs to be defined -Develop, maintain, support of Internal “AZ Course Mapping” Tool -Contract with 3 rd party vendor for Course Mapping best practices Define data to be extracted from the LEA -Storage of data -Where, who -Security of data -Data Policy as related to access, term of storage, SLA’s -Data Governance -Discussions on evaluations: teacher, principal etc on maintained at ADE State-wide common dashboard -Purpose of dashboards -Access -BI layers based on access and roles ADE IT Platform for Infrastructure and Software to support AZ-SLDS

Questions? IT Programs and Projects Dept. Arizona Department of Education 11