Technology Readiness in Michigan
Technology Readiness
Infrastructure Grant
State School Aid
Focus:
The development or improvement of a
district’s technology infrastructure,
including, but not limited to, hardware and
software, in preparation for the planned
implementation in 2014-2015 of online
TRIG Funding Structure
Three Primary Areas
Funds to local districts and consortia
Funds to statewide activities
Funds to connectivity
Participation Funds
Statewide Activities
Classroom Readiness
Prepare MI Educators to increase their technology proficiency
Plan and implement online assessments
This year 7038 teachers are enrolled in the Teacher Training
Assessment and Curriculum
Development of digital textbooks for social studies courses
In the first year, books will be created for fourth-grade United States Studies, fifth-grade United
States History, sixth-grade World Geography, and High School
Economics
Assessment and Curriculum
These will work on Chromebooks, Macs,
Windows machines and iPads easily. Yes to Android but it's not as pretty.
Anticipated release is August 15th, 2015. Beginning work in August: 3rd Grade
(Michigan Studies), 7th (Ancient World History), 8th (US History: Revolution to Reconstruction), HS US (Reconstruction to Today), and HS Civics. Anticipated
release: August 15, 2016
Yes they're free.
Michigan Technology Readiness
Assessment Tool (MTRAx)
Data Service Collaboratives
Funding was provided for projects that would
create or expand technology.
TRIG Consortia were encouraged to work
through their advisory committees to determine the areas of greatest need and how proposed collaboratives would leverage other activities occurring within TRIG.
E-Rate Bandwidth Rates
$18.54 $12.83 $5.17 $0.00 $2.00 $4.00 $6.00 $8.00 $10.00 $12.00 $14.00 $16.00 $18.00 $20.00
Average Cost Per MB
Device Purchasing trend
Device Purchasing Statewide Savings
Savings =$34,856,247 Devices=147,578
Connectivity
Draft of the State Education Network Backbone
Current Connected
State Education Network Goals
Provide all school buildings with the robust
connections needed for online testing
Create a safe, secure network
Enable purchasing of Internet access
through shared-network connections
Create an “Intranet” to provide Michigan
schools Electronic content and online testing without traveling over the commercial
Questions
?
Contact Information
:
Tim Hall
Technology Readiness
Infrastructu re Grant
Project Director
thall@ gomasa.org
Technology Readiness in Michigan
Technology Readiness in Michigan
Why Data Integration?
Actionable Data
Educational Efficiencies Cost Savings
We believe that the use of information is
a major key to improving education
Why Data Integration?
Proliferation of data systems Lack of integration between
those systems
Duplicate efforts to address
integration
Capacity/Cost/Staffing
We believe that there are many factors
that make it challenging for districts to
Why Data Integration?
Lots of good things
being done by ISDs and districts, but equity is lacking
To do this on a
statewide scale takes leadership
We believe that, left alone, districts and
ISDs can at best develop small scale
solutions that address part of the issue
Data Integration Activity Vision
The Data Integration activity is
designed to streamline the use of
educational information statewide
through common data & common
Concept of Project
System 1 Ex: Student Information System System 2 Ex: Special Education System System 3: Ex: Food Service System System 4: Ex: Data Warehouse System System 5: Ex: Transportation System Data Collected • Student information • Scheduling • Attendance • Grades Data Collected • Student information • Individualized Education Plan (IEP) • Accommodations Data Collected • Student information • Lunch balance • Payment information Data Collected • Student information • Local assessments • State assessments Data Collected • Student information • Route information District Perspective Challenges:• Redundancy of data entry • Inaccuracy of data
• Few if any systems “talk” to each other • Not one place to access all this data
The Solution
System 1 Ex: Student Information System System 2 Ex: Special Education System System 3: Ex: Food Service System System 4: Ex: Data Warehouse System System 5: Ex: Transportation System Data Hub Data Quality Method to validate that data is accurate and eliminate redundant input Single Source of Actionable Data • Reports • Dashboards Advantages:• Eliminate the need for redundant data entry • Validate accuracy of data
How does this work?
MISTAR MISTAR MISTAR Meal Magic Polyplot PowerSchool Illuminate SE Data Director Meal Magic Edulog Synergy Tienet SE IRIS/IGOR Meal Magic VersaTrans Skyward Illuminate SE Illuminate DnA Transfinder PowerSchool Illuminate SE Schoolnet Meal MagicPilot Data Hub Kalamazoo RESA
Waterford
(GMEC) Ludington(IMC) Wyoming(Kent) Sault Area(RNMC)
Berrien Springs (SWMI)
KEY: Student Information Systems
Special Education Systems Data Warehouses Food Services Transportation Systems Common Exchange Format
How does this scale?
Current Data Hub Locations: • Oakland ISD • Copper Country ISD • Kent ISD • Kalamazoo RESA
Data Hubs align to TRIG Regions
Kalamazoo
RESA
Copper
Country
Macomb
ISD
Kent ISD
Oakland
Schools
Data Hub/Ed-Fi Uses
Vendor Integrations
Reporting/Unification of Data Collections
Dashboards / Student Early Warning System
Identity and access control
Student record movement
Data Warehousing/Analytics
Interventions
Vendor Integrations
Phase 1: Created cockpit application Primarily working with SIS vendors
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Edupoint Synergy•
Infinite Campus•
MISTAR•
Pearson PowerSchool•
Skyward•
Sungard eSchoolPlus Phase 1: Inbound Integrations in Ed-Fi XML Phase 3: Beginning work on web services
Vendor Integrations
Phase 2,3: Starting to work with vendors on
outbound integrations (both XML and Web Service)
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Alert, Assessment, Data Warehouse Food Service, Library, Special Education,Transportation
Phase 2: Reporting Capability
MSDF: System of Authority and Granular
Unification of Data Collections
Phase 4: Developing extensions for all CEPI
MSDS fields not currently covered in Ed-Fi spec
Phase 4: Analysis and Design of State
Reporting Generation
Potential: Reports for Pupil Accounting and
Auditing
Dashboards and Student EWS
Ed-Fi Solution has dashboard development
framework and starter dashboards
Phase 3: Authentication being put into place
and dashboards have been created for some pilot districts
The state is considering the data hubs for
presentation of M-STEP assessment results for parents, students and educators.
Dynamic Watch Lists
Teachers and administrators can create at a school, grade, or classroom level by using metric-based criteria as filters. When students cross thresholds defined by filter criteria, they are added to the specific Dynamic List.
Categories for metric filters are:
• student information
• attendance and discipline
• assessments
• grades and credits
• interventions
• sections (classes)
Notifications are sent to list owners when students are added to or dropped from a Dynamic List.
Student Info
Assessments
Sections
Student Early Warning System
This system shows educators at the classroom, school, or district level metric indicators to provide caution and failure warnings about their students. Based on research by Dr. Robert Balfanz (Johns Hopkins University), the EWS focuses on 5 statistically significant predictors of dropout risk:
• A daily attendance rate of less than 80 percent
• More than 5 school code of conduct violations
• One or more state reportable offense violations
• A failing math grade
• A failing English language arts grade
Pre-configured for the dashboard, students struggling in any of these areas are identified and flagged as a dropout risk in the EWS
Identity and Access Control
Phase 3: Specifications for SSO developed Phase 4: SSO Authentication put into place
for cockpit and dashboard
Phase 4: Integrating MISchoolData
Phase 4: Integrating EUPISD regional Active
Directory as a test project
Student Record Movement
Kalamazoo RESA Data Hub
Niles
Dowagiac Berrien Springs
Request for CA-60 Data Response – I have it Request for CA-60 Data Response – I don’t have it
• Requests of information will need to be authorized
before data is provided
Movement between Data Hubs
GMEC Data Hub IMC Data Hub Kent Data Hub RNMCData Hub Data HubSWMI
Request for Transcript Response – Here it is
Request for CA-60 Data Response – I have it Request for CA-60 Data Response – I don’t have it
• Requests of information will need to be authorized
before data is provided
• Requests may need to be made to multiple data
hubs to get the data needed
• A request for statewide information would need to
go to all 5 data hubs
For Future Consideration
Data Warehouse/Analytics Interventions
How is student data being handled?
Data is owned by the district
Data Hosting Agreement specifies what can
be done with data hosted at the hubs
•
Encryption in transit and at rest•
Permission required to send the data to any other entity•
Required FERPA training for those working with data•
District can turn integrations on/off or request that data is removed at any timeData security and Privacy
Encrypted in transit (SFTP/SSL) and at rest
(BitLocker, Table Data Encryption)
Strong security password requirements Each district’s data is in its own physically
separated database
Data Hosting Agreement lays out specific
steps for secure data handling
Required FERPA training for Data Hub
Staff/Administrators
2013-14
14 SIS 87% Common2014-15
10 SIS 93% CommonTimeline
12-31-14 *Pilot districts integrating into Kalamazoo RESA hub *Special Ed and Data Warehouse integrations 8-30-15 *Target of 20% integrating into specific regional hubs 9-1-15 *Begin rollout on statewide basis 6-30-16 *Statewide rollout to any district using an integrated SIS *Pilot readiness of state reportingSummary
This has been a huge and complex project The collaboration on this project has been
tremendous
This cannot be built in a day – It will evolve
over time
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Year 1 – Planning•
Year 2 – Development•
Year 3 – ImplementationQuestions
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