Texas Education Agency November 2011 Brian Rawson, Director-Statewide Data Initiatives, Texas Education Agency Sharon Gaston, TSDS Project Technical Director, Texas Education Agency

Texas Student Data System 2 Agenda  TSDS System Overview  TSDS Technical Architecture Overview  Demonstration – Limited Production Release  Wrap-up & Q&A

Texas Student Data System 3 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: Pocket Edition  $39B Annual Operating Expenditures  $8,342/student Quick Facts

Texas Student Data System 4 TSDS Delivers 4 Major Components State- sponsored SIS EDW PEIMSTPEIR  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)

Texas Student Data System 5 District Environment OnlyTEA Environment Only How TSDS Will Work State- sponsored SIS District SIS EDWPEIMSTPEIR PEIMS data Districts submit data 4x/year 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 Certify/Validate

Texas Student Data System 6 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

Texas Student Data System 7 TSDS EDW Solution Components

Texas Student Data System 8 TSDS Data Flow/Data Validation

Texas Student Data System 9 TSDS Data Standard

Texas Student Data System 10 TSDS Milestones

Texas Student Data System 11 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

Texas Student Data System 12 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

Texas Student Data System 13 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

Texas Student Data System 14 Live Demonstration  Texas TSDS Limited Production Release (v1.1)

Texas Student Data System 15 Wrap-Up  Question & Answer

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