DatabasED INsite - Indiana University School of Education

In our first live-audience episode, hosted at Teachers College in New York City, we talk with Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford (Clemson University), Dr. Ryan Baker (University of Pennsylvania), and Dr. Subriya Jubilee (School District of Philadelphia) about how data and analytics can be used to change rather than reinforce systemic inequities in schools and districts. Major themes in this episode include the importance of a people-centered perspective while using data (including both adults and students); the tools offered by improvement science for empowering educators to measure data points that are relevant and authentic; and the role of system design in limiting possible equity outcomes. Our panelists envision a future in which students are supported to achieve their goals without the barriers of inequitable systems–something that has never yet been accomplished in U.S. education. Special thanks to Dr. Alex Bowers for organizing the ELDA conference and this recording!



Episode resources



Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford

https://www.clemson.edu/education/about/directory/profile.html?userid=bhinnan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbnhc/

Dr. Ryan Baker

https://learninganalytics.upenn.edu/ryanbaker/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-baker-36567482/ 

Dr. Sabriya Jubilee

https://theorg.com/org/school-district-of-philadelphia/org-chart/sabriya-k-jubilee 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjubilee/ 

Hess & Fullerton, “The Numbers we Need” https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/The%20Numbers%20We%20Need.pdf?x91208 

Belitz, C., Ocumpaugh, J., Ritter, S., Baker, R. S., Fancsali, S. E., & Bosch, N. (2023). Constructing categories: Moving beyond protected classes in algorithmic fairness. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 74(6), 663-668. https://pnigel.com/papers/belitz-2023-FQVZJZMC.pdf 

https://www.schoolsthatlead.org/ 

Dr. Asa Hilliard, “all children are geniuses”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bASynMwgog8 

Dr. Dana Mitra on student voice: https://danamitra.net/go/dana/ 

Hinnant-Crawford, B., Bergeron, L., Virtue, E., Cromartie, S., & Harrington, S. Good teaching, warm and demanding classrooms, and critically conscious students: Measuring student perceptions of asset-based equity pedagogy in the classroom. Equity & Excellence in Education. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10665684.2023.2166446?src= 

Darling-Hammond, L., Wechsler, M. E., Levin, S., Leung-Gagne, M., & Tozer, S. (2022). Developing effective principals: What kind of learning matters? [Report]. Learning Policy Institute. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/developing-effective-principals-report 

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This week we talk with Dr. Amy Hawn Nelson, Director of Training and Technical Assistance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy about AISP’s 2020 publication, “A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity throughout Data Integration.” The Toolkit, and Dr. Hawn Nelson’s discussion in this episode, give great guidance about ways that we can improve the design, governance, use, and quality of data integrations in ways that serve all community stakeholders. We also have a special guest host for this episode; Emily Oakes is the Data Steward for Learning Management and Learning Analytics Data at Indiana University and is also the Principal Unizin IT Consultant for IU. Emily works on similar topics in higher education, and her insights gave us a great perspective on how these issues are similar and different across levels.



Episode resources:

Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy at UPenn: https://aisp.upenn.edu

A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration: https://www.aisp.upenn.edu/centering-equity/

Finding a Way Forward: How to create a strong legal framework for data integration: https://aisp.upenn.edu/resource-article/finding-a-way-forward-how-to-create-a-strong-legal-framework-for-data-integration/

Equity in Practice Learning Community: https://aisp.upenn.edu/eiplc

Quality of Life Explorer (Charlotte-Mecklenburg, NC): https://ui.charlotte.edu/our-work/quality-life-explorer 


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In Episode 2 of Season 2, we talk with Dr. May Hara of Framingham State University and Dr. Annalee Good of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research about their new book, Teachers as Policy Advocates: Strategies for Collaboration and Change. Following the book’s chapter themes, we discuss policy areas of school safety and discipline, assessment, public health and COVID-19, and digital learning, specifically highlighting areas where the languages of DatabasED potentially intersect. In the words of Dr. Good, the episode helps us “look under the hood” of how education policies can be accessed and addressed by teachers and how teacher policy advocacy often intersects with school and district leadership and even district technology offices.

Show resources:


Website for Teachers as Policy Advocates: https://www.tcpress.com/teachers-as-policy-advocates-9780807767948 


EdCamps: https://digitalpromise.org/edcamp/


Research on EdCamps: Swanson et al. (2014). The Edcamp Model: Powering Up Professional Learning. Published by SAGE. https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/book/edcamp-model 


Research on policies around Google and data privacy:



Lindh, M., & Nolin, J. (2016). Information we collect: Surveillance and privacy in the implementation of Google apps for education. European Educational Research Journal, 15(6), 644-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474904116654917   


Perrotta, C., Gulson, K. N., Williamson, B., & Witzenberger, K. (2021). Automation, APIs and the distributed labour of platform pedagogies in Google Classroom. Critical Studies in Education, 62(1), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2020.1855597 



“Street-level bureaucrats:



Weatherley, R., & Lipsky, M. Street-level bureaucrats and institutional innovation: Implementing special-education reform. Harvard Educational Review, 47(2), 171-197. https://www.hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-47,-issue-2/herarticle/implementing-special-education-reform_903 




Related writings from Hara & Good:


Blog post on Chat GTP policies: https://www.tcpress.com/blog/responding-chatgpt-schools-effective-policy-design-include-teachers/ 


Blog post on gun policies: https://www.tcpress.com/blog/effective-school-gun-policy-requires-teacher-voice-strategies-support-teacher-policy-advocacy/ 





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In Episode 1 of Season 2, we talk with an interdisciplinary group of staff from Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia, which has been working on their single-district Ed-Fi implementation since 2018. Joanna Kaylor (Supervisor of Enterprise Support and Analytics), Kara Bane (Supervisor of Data Science and Digital Solutions), and Jana Griffith (School Improvement and Accountability Specialist) share with us the pros and cons of doing an Ed-Fi implementation completely in-house; the absolute necessity of scoping a narrow use case at the beginning; and the benefits of having both the technical and instructional side involved in both technical implementation and rollout to users. 



Resources mentioned in episode:


Qlik business intelligence platform: https://www.qlik.com/us/ 
Stephanie Evergreen (Evergreen Data: Intentional Reporting and Data Visualization): https://stephanieevergreen.com/

In this brief introduction to season 2, Molly and Rosh discuss changes to INsite over the course of the last year and what is coming in the future!

Our guests this week are Dr. Shane Fairbairn and Sherod Keen from the North East Florida Educational Consortium, or NEFEC. NEFEC is a regional nonprofit educational service agency established to provide cooperative services to small and rural member districts. Through membership in NEFEC, districts are able to meet educational goals and objectives more effectively and affordably. They offer a wide range of programs and services, but today we will primarily be discussing their implementation of the Ed-Fi data standard. NEFEC was the first local education agency consortium to implement the Ed-Fi data standard, beginning in 2013 and serving 15 member districts. Shane, Sherod, and their other colleagues at NEFEC were instrumental in helping guide INsite’s own implementation of the Ed-Fi data standard. During the episode, Shane shares his love of metaphors, Sherod predicts the future of Ed-Fi, and we learn that Rosh is chock-full of dependencies.



Episode links:

NEFEC (North East Florida Educational Consortium): https://www.nefec.org/

FLCODE (Collaborative on Operational Data for Educators): https://www.flcode.org/

CELT (Center for Educational Leadership and Technology): http://www.celtcorp.com/