Poor data quality is a chronic problem for many school districts. But quite often, despite the drag on teaching and learning, productivity, and revenues, the issue is ignored until the annual crisis when data needs to be scrubbed and submitted to the state. But sadly, once the crisis is over, everyone tends to fall back into old habits until the same time next year.
ViKiwi led this California district to cleanse student attendance data, ostensibly to meet state reporting requirements, but also to provide better early warning signs of individual students at risk, and to provide more reliable aggregate data for the CFO to forecast ADA-based revenues. ViKiwi helped identify the most pertinent data to track, established systems and processes to generate and gather the data, designed simple scorecards to highlight issues and trends, and coached district personnel to understand, interpret and act on the data.
As an ongoing effort to maintain data integrity, ViKiwi led the redesign of the processes to take attendance, including expediting the implementation of web-based technologies to enable teachers to input attendance directly from their classrooms, and established clear responsibilities for accurate data input.
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