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Lights, mics, action…one more time! We return to Charlotte, North Carolina, for IDC's Interactive Institute 2023, where we grabbed some quality time with OSEP's Gregg Corr, Christine Pilgrim, and Richelle Davis to discuss how states can interact, influence, and improve their way to higher quality IDEA data. Join host Amy Bitterman for part two of this very lively episode of A Date with Data.

New relationships are great, sure, but what most of us strive for are long-lasting, meaningful connections. That’s the goal in Georgia anyway, where Part B data managers Dawn Kemp and Dominique Donaldson are keeping stakeholders on their mind as they implement strategies to improve and expand stakeholder engagement.

In our last episode of A Date with Data, we got to know the Ohio IDEA Data Team. Now it's time for a deeper dive. Join host Amy Bitterman as she continues her conversation with this innovative octet as they cover strategies for the collection, analyzation, reporting, improvement, and use of IDEA data. Pull up a chair; there's room for one more.

Lights, mics, action! Our IDC Interactive Institute 2023 was the perfect opportunity to sit down with OSEP's Gregg Corr, Christine Pilgrim, and Richelle Davis. Join host Amy Bitterman for this national perspective on how states can interact, influence, and improve their way to higher quality IDEA data. It's the very first episode of A Date with Data recorded before a live studio audience!

Held in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2023 OSEP Leadership and Project Directors’ Conference brought special education leaders together from across the country. Naturally, IDC staff were on hand for this two-and-a-half-day affair, listening and learning alongside you, facilitating important conversations, and presenting some exciting new ideas and products. From meetups to poster sessions to the launch of an eagerly anticipated new app, let’s take a look at some of the high points of IDC @ OSEP 2023.

Preschool data play an important role in helping us to understand and shape the educational landscape, especially for children with disabilities and their families. It’s not uncommon for those who work with Section 619 preschool data to feel both privileged to do such meaningful work and overwhelmed by the details of it. First, we want you to know that you’re not alone, and second, we want to offer you support as a 619 professional through our renewed 619 Data Quality Peer Group. Read on to learn more and get the inside scoop.

2023 brings new opportunities to further strengthen our collaboration and to promote strong data quality. As we now know, this year will bring the new EDPass system, along with new processes to follow and new opportunities to endorse and improve data quality and data use.