Illuminations and Insights
We shine a light on our partners, the work we've done across the country, and insights from our team members.
Shaping the next generation: The history and impact of the internship program at EA
Education Analytics welcomes a new group of interns every summer to support various teams and projects at our organization. Interns receive relevant training, mentoring, and hands-on experience that enables them to find success not only at EA, but also in their professional careers. In this blog, we describe our internship program, discuss the goals for both the interns and the organization, and highlight this cohort’s summer projects.
Introducing Enable Data Union, an open framework for analytics and data warehousing with Ed-Fi data
Enable Data Union (EDU) is open software for an Ed-Fi data warehouse solution and a community we are developing to share ideas, experiences, and code among education agencies. Stadium is a hosted version of this product provided by Education Analytics. In this blog, we highlight why this solution is needed, describe our philosophy around its development, and provide details on the EDU and Stadium products.
Fostering teacher innovation through classroom research: The design of Strategy Workshop, a new software application
How do we help foster teacher innovation? In this blog, we highlight how an exciting new software application paired with a model for teacher action research enables teachers to identify evidence-based instructional strategies, test them out in their classroom, and use data to determine if they really make a difference in student achievement.
Supporting COVID recovery: Strengthening state capacity to identify evidence-based improvement strategies
Through the Wisconsin-Minnesota Comprehensive Center – Region 10, EA has partnered with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to provide support to districts in developing plans to use COVID-19-related funding to implement evidence-based improvement strategies.
Turning public data into custom insights: How EA has built a public data platform for our partners
Sometimes our partners cannot access student-level data. In this blog, we detail how EA maintains a robust data system of publicly available data and how we create custom reporting to provide data-driven insights for our partners.
Data neighborhoods: Preserving context around educational data
In this blog, we establish core principles for conceptualizing data interoperability as transport, including how decentralized governance models enable local control over data in ways that maximize privacy and security. We introduce the concept of "data neighborhoods" as a metaphor for this interoperability model, and we connect different kinds of context around educational data to the core principles.