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    The Role of IDEA Data Managers in LA/SEA Data Governance Programs

    Data governance is a critical function for organizing and exerting proper influence over data management decisions. During the last several years, many LAs and SEAs have defined and adopted data governance programs. This session explored the role of IDEA data managers as data stewards in SEA data governance programs.

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    Now You See It: Seeing the Story in the Data

    This session demonstrated creative ways data are being displayed to tell the story of IDEA and other data. Participants heard from states that are displaying data in ways that tell data stories and convey meaning to stakeholders and the public. Participants also saw ways to access various online federal education data. This session offered participants online resources and websites about effective data displays.

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    Equity, Inclusion, and Opportunity in Special Education

    In this webinar, which IDC staff presented for the University of Tennessee’s Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities, we first discuss the requirements in the IDEA related to disproportionality, describe methods for calculating disproportionality, and present data, both at the national level and for the state of Tennessee. The second part of the webinar introduces a research-based guidance document and self-assessment rubric designed to help schools and districts identify the root causes of "success gaps."

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    Identified Significant Disproportionality – Now What?

    After a State determines that a district has significant disproportionality, what are the next steps? Presenters and session participants discussed how states can identify technical assistance and available tools and resources to help LEAs identify root causes and implement action steps, including CEIS, to make substantive improvement.

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    The Power of Data: Leveraging the Role of Data Managers to improve Results

    This session examined the strategic role data play in state agency decision making by exploring how data managers can more effectively use their role to promote public reporting, data awareness, data utilization, and systems change. Presenters paid particular attention to data governance, cross-department information sharing, timely data access, distribution, usability, and analysis, along with examples of best practice from practitioners in the field to ultimately improve student results.

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    What Data Can Tell Us – and What It Can’t: How to Be Sure We Know What Our Data Means

    Validity is about more than results—it is determined by the question asked, the data collection design, and analysis. In this session, presenters led a discussion on what the data can, and cannot, say about outcomes, using examples from a selection of Part B and Part C indicators. Questions posed included: What is the difference between student outcomes and program performance? Can your data tell you which states, districts, or programs are performing better? What policy questions would you like to know about that your data currently cannot answer?

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    National, State, and Local Educational Environments Data: Using the Data to Increase Inclusive Opportunities for Young Children Ages 3-5

    The session focused on current national and state data on least restrictive environments and inclusive settings for children aged three to five. Participants shared examples and discussed the ways in which they analyze and share data with local programs. In addition, discussions focused on how educational environments data are used to determine specific state and local program improvement strategies and supports.