Welcome 👋

I hope to cover:

• 📉 What we currently do.
• 📈 What we want to do.
• ❓ How will we get there?

Please feel free to ask any clarifying questions by raising your hand.

💻 Who am I?

🚶 Been in VT for most of my life.

⚙️ Computer and Systems Engineer with 20ish years of experience

🛠️ Was an IT contractor for AOE from 2019-2020

🆘 Joined AOE as Education Data Admin June 2020

📉 What do we currently do

🏚 We have a custom built csv/sftp based system.

👷🏻‍♀️ It's hard to use and maintain.

⏱ The feedback and collection cycle is slow.

📈 What we want to do.

• 🛞 Leverage open souce and state community created tools
• 🚕 Reduce the burden on LEA's
• 🏛 Continue to provide federal and state reporting
• 📈 Provide LEA's an integration platform

📈 What we want to do.(2)

• 🏗 Be ready to easily adapt to future changes
• 🖧 Systems Integration Goals:
  • 🧾 Data Quality Reports and Dashboards
  • 🆔 Student/Staff Identity
  • 🧪 Assesment Rostering
  • 🖖 Allow LEA's to integrate

❓ What is Ed-Fi?

• ® Data Standard and Technology to help store and exchange education data.
  Providing:
  🕸️ Web based API and Authentication Administration through tokens
  💽 Operational Data Store

❓ What is Ed-Fi? (2)

• 🤗 Open Source - you own the code, community helps build and maintin it.
• Very useful for LEA's
  Providing:
  🖧 Central Integration Point
  🔏 Limited Access
  🆙 "Off The Shelf" Solutions for Reporting, LMS, SIS...

❓ How?

• 🐢 We're going to go slow.
• 😨 We want and will use your feedback.
• 😎 We're not going on our own, using other states as a guide.
• ✅ We're working with your SIS vendors now to confirm their integrations work.

EdFi Roadmap

Prior to 2020

• Conductected meetings with stakeholders to determine current path
• Determined State wide SIS is not for us
• Announeced our intention to try Ed-Fi out as a path forward

EdFi Roadmap

2021 - SY2022

• Stood up Sandbox API in March of 22 for Vendors
• Provide initial knowledge base area and request feedback
• Collected a test group of 20 willing LEA's

2022 - SY2023

• Initial pilot with those willing
• Develop Direct Certifcation for Free or Reduced Lunch data exchange process
• Build Data Quality checks and other integrations for reporting
• Customize Ed-Fi Standard for Vermonts specific needs
• Announce Vermont Ed-Fi Customizations and release Sandbox for Vendors

2023 - SY2024

• Announce EdFi Required for SY2025
• Develop student and staff permnumber matching through identity api
• Begin Work on other processes like IDEA/SPED, and Foster Care status being passed through EdFi via monthly batch

2024 - SY2025

• EdFi submissions required this year and forward
• Pilot other processes via EdFi: IDEA/SPED, CTE, Foster

2025 - SY2026

• Announce other data required via EdFi if pilot successful
• 2nd year of EdFi data

2026 - SY2027

• IDEA/SPED data submitted through EdFi
• Foster Care data passed back to SU's
• CTE data collected via Ed-Fi

The End 🌈

Thank you for your time.

Any Questions?