1. Get in Charge of YOUR Data “It Is Good To Be Demanding and In Control”OR
“It Is Good To Be Demanding and In Control”

2. Joseph’s Chances…..
Joseph is a recently adopted foster child who needs:
To be enrolled today in his local school;
An educator with immediate access to his learning history;
A bus route, pickup time and location for tomorrow;
An immediate review of his previous Individualized Education Plan (IEP) by the local support team;
Immediate access to the district’s physical/virtual resources aligned to his curricular needs;
Parents at home able to track his progress, contact teachers and support his current work outside of the classroom
Is This A Success We Want to Enable?

3. The Maturation: What is the Access 4 Learning Community All About?
A Technology Focused on Data Management and Movement TO
The traditional role of “School IT Lead” is rapidly evolving to include ed tech usage, data management, reporting, privacy, communications, training, etc.
A Community Focused on Enabling Learning – Not Just Data

4. Target: Student Successful Learning Progression
Administrative and Operational
Analytics,
Dashboards, Portals
External Entity
School / School System
Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
Student Enrolls
Identity
Data Needs
Student Roster
Accountability
Timeliness
Identity Strategies
Ability to Manage Risks via Privacy and Security
“Simple to Enterprise” Data Integration and Scalability
Challenges
IT choices in schools adding overheads and risk – privacy, data integrity
Minimise effort to integrate with multiple systems > data hubs
Key to successful integration – careful selection of management of identifiers > local & national use
Record Exchange
Policy and Technology Underpins the Work

5. The Four S’s…..
Secure:
Greater local control of data and how it is managed, moved, accessed and utilized through technical, policy and effective practices support

6. Student Data Privacy Consortium
An A4L Special Interest Group (SIG)

7. SDPC Goals
Establish a community of stakeholders who have various needs addressed through policy, technology and/or effective practice sharing around effective privacy management,
Identify projects that have on-the-ground and real-world impact on student data privacy enabling schools, districts, state and vendors find resources, adapt them to their unique context and implement needed protections,
Development of tools and resources to address operational issues not currently being addressed,
Leverage partnership organizations working in the privacy space to have their good work utilized and no reinvention of existing work,
Development of a clearinghouse of student data privacy operational issues and resources to support schools, districts, states and vendors in managing those issues – no matter where the resources originate.

8. SDPC Tactical Privacy Success
Project 1: Privacy Contract Framework
The Privacy Contract Framework project is focused on the development a framework for identifying solutions that have on-the-ground and real-world impact on student data privacy enabling schools, districts, state and vendors find resources, adapt them to their unique context and implement needed protections. Application Profiles will be developed to support “apples to apples” comparisons.

9. How It Looks
privacy.A4L.org
June 2016

10. SDPC Tactical Privacy Success
Project 1: Privacy Contract Framework
The Privacy Contract Framework project is focused on the development a framework for identifying solutions that have on-the-ground and real-world impact on student data privacy enabling schools, districts, state and vendors find resources, adapt them to their unique context and implement needed protections. Application Profiles will be developed to support “apples to apples” comparisons.
Project 2: Digital Governance
The Digital Tools Governance project centers around developing a comprehensive framework for aligning a school system’s policy landscape, strategic programming, tactical processes, and accountability mechanisms to support the system’s vision of how its digital tool ecosystem will advance its overall mission and goals while minimizing its risks of data privacy and security incidents.

11. Digital Tool Governance
Framework for Transformative Digital Governance
Know your goal before you begin…
Ensure Accountability Mechanisms and Metrics are Working
Monitor Metrics and Provide Feedback
Adapt and Rework as Necessary
Digital Tool Governance
Craft a Vision
Assess the Terrain
Develop the Plan
Mobilize and Deploy
Monitor and Adapt
Tone at the Top?
Policies in Place?
Stakeholders?
Risk and Liabilities?
Ground View?
Blind Spots?
Create Cross-functional Teams
Communicate Goals, Plans, & Expectations
Provide Training & Resources
Fully Engage & Walk the Walk
Celebrate Accomplishments
New Policies & Procedures
Implementation Strategy
Communications Plan & Documents
Accountability Mechanisms & Metrics
Peoples’ Roles & Responsibilities
Resources Needed

12. Possible Existing Pieces?
SIF Specs xPress Roster
SDPC Work Flow
SDPC Registry
Numerous Pieces to Address Student Data Privacy – Some Within SDPC some With Partners
Digital Gov
Contract Builder
Partner Tools

13. Project 3: SDPC Tactical Privacy “Connect”
Goal: Support data stewards and their institutions to address student data privacy from application identification to application utilization.
Application Vetting (Digital Tools Governance/SDPC App)
Privacy Contract Wording (Contract Builder)
Technical Requirements (Technical Standards)
Workflow Automation (SDPC Application)
Automate Data Exchanges via
Privacy Requirements (TBD)
Stakeholder Communications at Each Step
The Approved next SDPC Project. In the real world see it as: ‘Teacher A’ finds the greatest application in the world to teach his/her subject matter to students. What does it take from him/her requesting the application to be used with students, to having students using it?”
The
“Last Mile”

14. The Current World Districts Integrators Marketplace Products
The current environment. Thousands of apps from thousands of schools connecting in a very haphazard and mostly “one off” manner. About 25% of Districts use integrators.
Marketplace Products

15. Vetting & Contracting Framework Vetting & Contracting Framework
SDPC Value Add 1
Vetting & Contracting Framework
Vetting & Contracting Framework
Districts
Integrators
Integrators
The SDPC Project work has helped streamlined the vetting and contract aspects of connections but not the connections themselves.
Marketplace Products

16. SDPC Value Add 2: Connected Privacy
Districts
Secure Dedicated Cloud Environment
Vetting & Contracting Framework
“Secure/Quick Connections”
Privacy Standards
Certification
Integrators
Integrators
The next project of the SDPC – Connect – is going to enable those connections to take place in a standardized manner streamlining the work of schools, integrators and marketplace providers. Added here are the multiple integrator to integrator interactions districts sometimes use.
Marketplace Products

17. The Four S’s… Secure: Standard:
Greater local control of data and how it is managed, moved, accessed and utilized through technical, policy and effective practices support
Standard:
Standardizing “back office” functions but enable linking data to learning information and resources in new Specifications

18. Standards Landscape

19. How It Works... App A App B SIF Specifications Adaptor Adaptor Adaptor
Infrastructure
Adaptor
Adaptor
Infrastructure

20. Current: SIF Implementation Specifications
Each SIF Specification release comes with a recommendation from the locale Management Board as to which infrastructure version should be used with the corresponding data model.
NORTH AMERICAN SIF DATA MODEL
V2.6 / 2.7 / 3.4
GLOBAL SIF INFRASTRUCTURE
V3.4
AUSTRALIAN
SIF DATA MODEL
V3.4
UNITED KINGDOM SIF DATA MODEL V2.0

21. The Four S’s… Secure: Standard: Scalable:
Greater local control of data and how it is managed, moved, accessed and utilized through technical, policy and effective practices support
Standard:
Standardizing “back office” functions but enable linking data to learning information and resources in new Specifications
Scalable:
Start easy and scale to enterprise leveraging current and future investments via Migration Project Team blueprints

22. Enterprise

23. The Four S’s….. Secure: Standard: Scalable: Simple:
Greater local control of data and how it is managed, moved, accessed and utilized through technical, policy and effective practices support
Standard:
Standardizing “back office” functions but enable linking data to learning information and resources in new Specifications
Scalable:
Start easy and scale to enterprise leveraging current and future investments via Migration Project Team blueprints
Simple:
Functional API’s of the Specification to address real work needs – First up: xPress Roster and Student Records Exchange

24. xPress APIs
xPress APIs are developed using open standards and contemporary technologies, therefore opening the marketplace to innovation and allowing users to select ‘best of breed’ applications to meet their requirements using modern technologies (eg REST & Oauth).

25. xPress Roster and Student Records
State of Washington / Puget Sound ISD
Districts ingest records directly into SIS.
WSIPC/Skyward Districts 1-4
SFTP Emitter
OSPI generates xPress SRE object for requested student
Broker provides intelligent routing to appropriate destination.
Pearson District 5
SQL Translator
Washington State OSPI
Broker
POST
Illuminate District 6
REST API Adapter
SIF 3.2 SRE Object (xml)
Synergy District 7
TBD
Records

26. What’s YOUR Pain Point?

27. Who? A partial list of users1
NY – Across BOCES supporting now over 1 million students
WV – Statewide support accessing the central DW
AU – Utilizing development in support of NAPLAN – National Online Assessment

28. Definitive Statements
SIF-Enabled applications are in place and operating in every US state
Represents over 55 million students/3.9 million teachers
There are at least 12 statewide implementations utilizing SIF interoperability
Represents over 11 million students in 4,100 school districts with 810,000 teachers
Non-statewide implementations utilizing SIF interoperability
Represents over 2.5 million students in 1,000 school districts

29. Implementations by State, District and Student Number ImpactedAL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS
#DISTRICTS 15 55 20 40 25
190 1 12 45 35
369
#STUDENTS
50k 
 132k
 50k
200k
50k
 525k
20k
225k
 9k
70k 
509k KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC
 21 65
404 50 21 27 81
60k
10k 
950k
200k 
15k
40k
60k 
2.7m
65k ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY
778
544 89 19 60
135
301 59
45k
1.7m
700k
150k
770k
45k 
150k 
655K
17k
1.3m
1.1m
65k 
94k
Numbers represent “minimal” valued without overlapping app implementations
Yellow indicates statewide implementations

30. Action Items for You! Privacy: Standards:
Get Involved in the CSPA Work
Develop a Local Privacy Plan –Steal from SDPC!
Standards:
Require openly developed and free technical standards usage in products – SIF RFP Requirements!

31. What Are We Doing Towards That Success?
A4L is a Community of Committed Individuals Who are Passionate About Enabling:
The Leveraging of School Resources – People, Dollars and Technology
The School Software Marketplace to Deliver on Identified Needs
Creation of Collaborative Projects and Business Opportunities
Teachers to Teach and Learners to Learn – no matter Where or When
What Are We Doing Towards That Success?

32. Need More Information? Access 4 Learning Community
Student Data Privacy Consortium
Larry L Fruth II, PhD
Executive Director / CEO - A4L Community
Steve Smith
CIO - Cambridge Public Schools
Numerous Pieces to Address Student Data Privacy – Some Within SDPC some With Partners