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Three Ways to Safeguard School Data: Best Practices and Insights
At Education Analytics, privacy isn’t just a policy—it’s a priority.
Rally Gathers the Right Data at the Right Time
In this blog, we talk with the Director of Special Services, Rachel Traynham, and the Director of Testing and Accountability, Jennifer Turner, at the Spartanburg County School District 4 in South Carolina to discuss how the school district utilizes Rally Analytics Platform’s wellbeing survey to support student wellness. Spartanburg 4 uses the survey to identify at-risk students, provide data to principals and social-emotional learning mentors, and facilitate proactive support for student wellness.
Five Ed-Fi vocabulary words to know
At Education Analytics, we’ve seen firsthand the advantages given to the education field when we can connect data systems, like attendance, assessment, lunch programs, and more together through Ed-Fi. Whether you are just starting your exploration of how Ed-Fi can benefit your work, or you’re established in the process, here are five Ed-Fi vocabulary terms to know and share: Interoperability, Education Agency, Source System, Student Information System, and Data Warehouse.
Insights from the 2023 Internship Cohort: EA, AI, and the Future of Education, Data, and Analytics
Every summer, when demand for our services is highest, Education Analytics welcomes a new cohort of interns to support our teams. EA benefits immensely from the diverse range of perspectives and insights that interns bring to our organization, and we wanted to highlight this year’s cohort and their achievements. In this blog, we invited them to share their thoughts about their internship experience and reflect on what they’ve learned during their summer at EA, and how they think the workforce and the education field are going to change due to the integration of AI.
The Path Forward for AI in Education
The release of generative AI tools like ChatGPT has unleashed innumerable possibilities for new interfaces between computers and human experts (like teachers), where the algorithm is not just reporting information, but can instead act like a superpowered assistant. Although AI models have the potential to provide valuable insights at a low-cost to educators, challenges remain when applying these models to the education sector due to privacy concerns and data infrastructure barriers. In this blog, EA’s CEO Andrew Rice describes the importance of training AI models using specific contextual data and proposes a public-interest driven AI strategy that uses common data surfaces, prioritizes non-commercial infrastructures, and empowers educators to leverage AI tools while safeguarding privacy and avoiding commercial exploitation.
Insights from our leaders: What have we learned from the 2022-23 school year?
The 2022-23 school year marked the first academic year when most students were back in school full time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the challenge of educating the 49.5 million students in the public education system, educators, parents, families, and those who support them continue to learn about how the pandemic has changed the education landscape. We asked six leaders from across Education Analytics to reflect on the lessons they’ve learned from the past school year. In this blog, we share their thoughts about the ever-evolving landscape of digital tools, teaching methods, and innovations in the post-pandemic era of K-12 education.