Illinois improves its local data quality.
Weblogs, questions and answers, stories from the field, and our IDC newsletter, The Bee: This is where our voices come together to generate buzz.
IDC's A Date with Data podcast creates a platform from where states could share real experiences, feel more connected to colleagues in other states doing the same work, and, ultimately, improve their data quality.
IDC TA staff visited the Puerto Rico Department of Education to help make progress toward more efficient data process documentation.
Reviewing SPP/APRs is a bit like reading a state’s autobiography told through the lens of IDEA data. Our reviews allow us to reflect with states on how to tell their story in a compelling (and, yes, compliant) way, and as we do, our relationships deepen.
IDC’s ground-breaking , first-of-its-kind podcast, A Date with Data, dropped for the first time in May 2022. Nearly three years and more than 50 episodes later, the pod is refreshed and ready to take on 2025.
The year is almost over, and you know what that means: It’s time for IDC Wrapped, 2024!
If you’ve been following us on LinkedIn, you know that we’ve been teasing out some of our favorite highlights from this year in IDC technical assistance. We answered your calls over 230 times and had contact with each and every one of the 60 U.S. states, entities, and territories that we serve.
But that’s only the start.
November is quickly coming to a close, and that can only mean one thing: the SPP/APR season is upon us! For the third year in a row, IDC hosted our SPP/APR Summit, where SEA staff from across the country came together to collaborate and plan as they prepare to submit their next SPP/APR.
By now, you and your state team have probably begun working on your SPP/APR. As in years past, you are not alone; IDC is standing by ready to review drafts of your SPP/APR. As part of our commitment to support states in the reporting and analysis of high-quality IDEA data, over the next few months IDC will be offering SPP/APR review opportunities both through your State Liaison as well as through our patented IDC Informal Drop-Ins.
Utah. The Beehive State. Its official motto is just one word: Industry. It might come as no surprise, then, that the Utah State Board of Education has been working hard to improve the state’s general supervision system to monitor and support its LEAs in achieving compliance with federal and state requirements.
One thing years of experience have taught us: States love stories. Specifically, states love stories about other states, challenges they’ve faced, processes and strategies they’ve employed, successes they’ve enjoyed. That was the spark behind IDC’s twice-monthly podcast, A Date with Data, now in its second year of production and an effort that is particularly relevant in light of the Department of Education’s recent focus on sharing out state success stories.
Recently, in my position as CCEIS Consultant with the KDE, I had the opportunity to work alongside Danielle Crain, Tamara Nimkoff, and Susan Davis with IDC to develop a series of new local district trainings for CCEIS. The trainings were designed with three different segments of Kentucky’s 15 CCEIS districts in mind: new districts (districts that were experiencing significant disproportionality for the first time), experienced districts (districts in their second year of significant disproportionality), and long-term districts (districts in their third year or longer of significant disproportionality). Each of these groups presents its own opportunities and challenges for CCEIS implementation throughout the state.