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?