A Date With Data

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• Podcast

  Group Efforts, Part Six: Meet IDC’s Indicator 4, 9, and 10 Data Quality Peer Group

  Picture a number between, oh, let’s say 1 and 10. For the previous 5 episodes of our 1-of-a-kind podcast A Date with Data, we’ve zeroed in on IDC’s Data Quality Peer Groups. Now it’s time for part 6, which is about the Indicator 4, 9, and 10 Data Quality Peer Group. This episode, featuring 3 of IDC’s finest--host Amy Bitterman and 2 of our number enthusiasts, Miki Imura and Rachel Wilkinson—is an in-depth look at what makes this special collaboration so gr8. Definitely an episode you won’t want to miss. Just our 2 cents.

  Date

  09/26/2024

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  Group Efforts, Part Five: Meet IDC’s Cross-Role Data Quality Peer Group

  It’s hard not to appreciate organization, when everything easily fits together into neat piles and categories. There’s also something appealing about putting together a puzzle of seemingly disparate parts into something quite neat. In part five of our special series on IDC’s Data Quality Peer Groups, host Amy Bitterman digs into the puzzle of various state data roles with assistance from Susan Hayes and Mary Watson, facilitators of the center’s Cross-Role Data Quality Peer Group. These periodic convenings gather state special education staff with all sorts of roles and responsibilities to discuss topics of shared interest. Join us or our latest A Date with Data. We’re putting together the pieces.

  Date

  09/12/2024

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  Group Efforts, Part Four: Meet IDC’s EDFacts Coordinator/Data Manager Data Quality Peer Group

  In a relationship, two things come together to form a stronger, more complete whole. You might say the same about our EDFacts Coordinator/Data Manager Data Quality Peer Group, which gathers members of those role groups for collaboration and coordination around all things related to 618 data, as well as to discuss topics that include data governance, processes, and verification; data best practices; and everything and anything concerning EDFacts modernization. In the fourth installment of this special series, host Amy Bitterman gets the whole story from the group’s facilitators, IDC’s own Kristen DeSalvatore and Audrey Rudick.

  Date

  08/22/2024

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  Group Efforts, Part Three: Meet IDC’s SSIP Data Quality Peer Group

  What’s the old saying? There’s strength in numbers. That’s certainly true of IDC’s State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP) Data Quality Peer Group, which brings together SSIP coordinators, including state agency staff and consultants, to combine their experiences and insights to share, discuss, and co-create potential solutions to challenges. In part three of this special series, host Amy Bitterman sits down with IDC’s own Beckie Davis and Jennifer Schaaf to count it all up: the when’s, where’s, and why’s of these productive meetings and how you can add to their numbers.

  Date

  08/08/2024

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  Group Efforts, Part Two: Meet IDC’s SPP/APR Data Quality Peer Group

  IDC’s one-of-a-kind peer groups bring state role groups together for virtual discussions and collaborations about critical data quality issues in an informal and informative way. In the second installment of this special series, host Amy Bitterman joins IDC’s own Nancy Johnson and Chris Thacker to learn more about our monthly SPP/APR Data Quality Peer Groups where information-sharing and dialogue are the order of the hour. Stakeholder engagement. Non-response bias. Indicator 18. Everything is on the table. Interested? Let’s group up for part two.

  Date

  07/25/2024

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  Group Efforts, Part One: Getting To Know IDC’s Data Manager Data Quality Peer Group

  Among the IDEA Data Center’s many superior technical assistance offerings are our one-of-a-kind peer groups, virtual gatherings that bring together state role groups to discuss and collaborate on critical data quality issues in an informal and informative way. In this special series from A Date with Data, host Amy Bitterman will offer you an insider’s glimpse into those events, beginning with our Data Manager Data Quality Peer Group, as explained by IDC’s own Kelley Blas and Kristen DeSalvatore. Don't miss out on this important group effort.

  Date

  07/11/2024

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  Just Peachy: Georgia’s Team Approach to EDPass

  There’s a new system in town—EDPass—and for the first time states have used it to submit their 618 data files. So, how did it go; is the new system peachy keen? And what can states learn from the experiences of their peers? On this episode of A Date with Data, host Amy Bitterman will find out, sitting down with Part B data manager Dominque Donaldson and EDFacts coordinator Adam Churney, both from the Georgia Department of Education, to discuss how they teamed up to make sure their first EDPass encounter was as sweet as can be.

  Date

  06/27/2024

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  Steel Magnolias: Strengthening 619 Data Culture in Mississippi

  The nature of preschool programs can make collecting high-quality data a challenge even for those with an iron—or should we say steel—will. In Mississippi, collecting high-quality preschool data means working alongside the state’s LEAs to overcome these shared challenges.

  Date

  05/23/2024

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  Growing the Community Garden: Cultivating 619 Data Connections in New Jersey

  New Jersey might call itself the Garden State, but for Director of Special Education Kim Murray and 619 Data Coordinator Jennifer Nicosia this garden needs nurturing. In this week’s A Date with Data, host Amy Bitterman digs into this state story about New Jersey’s efforts to help LEAs submit accurate or complete 619 data and grow connections between data quality and program improvement. Grab your biggest sun hat and join us in the garden for another vibrant episode.

  Date

  05/09/2024

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  Texas Hold ‘Em: Securing and Maintaining Stakeholder Engagement in the Lone Star State

  A key aspect of any state’s SPP/APR is stakeholder engagement, but in a state with as many seats around the table as Texas, bringing people together and keeping them there can require no small measure of special planning. On this episode of A Date with Data, host Amy Bitterman is all in with Susan Bineham, Texas Education Agency’s SPP/APR coordinator and manager of the Office of Special Populations and Student Supports (OSPSS). They’re putting their cards on the table to talk about the importance – and logistics – of how the state brings together parents, community members, and others to get the most of their IDEA data.

  Date

  04/25/2024