Miss Goody, an LRSD staff member leading data and analytics work, demonstrated a set of dashboards the district calls "Aubrey," saying the tools are live, update nightly and have both staff‑only and public components.
"Every dashboard that you're gonna see is gonna be... live and be available for you to peruse," Miss Goody said during the work session. She showed an accountability dashboard called "Little Rock by the Numbers" that district staff plan to embed on the LRSD website, and she said the district would make that page public pending any board questions.
The dashboards shown to the board include: an accountability view (LRSD by the Numbers) intended to be public; a staff‑only behavior and discipline dashboard with drill‑down filters for incident type, grade and school; and a climate and culture dashboard that pulls district survey results. Miss Goody said the dashboards refresh nightly and are connected directly to LRSD systems.
Jenny Parnell, the district testing coordinator, explained test‑score details and how ELA scoring is calculated. Parnell said some students lacked ELA scores because the ELA measure requires both reading and writing tests; if a student did not complete the writing portion sufficiently, an ELA score could not be calculated.
On the discipline dashboard, staff showed counts and filters: "students with incidents" and "total incidences" are separate metrics, Miss Goody explained. The district reported a snapshot that the board used during the demonstration: 2,182 students had at least one logged incident and 16,692 students had no incident logged for the year so far; staff clarified that the same student may account for multiple total incidences.
Board members asked about public access and timing. Miss Goody told the board the public page is ready and, after brief review, staff planned to publish it. She also said the district will add features over time such as year‑over‑year comparisons, student‑level views for school staff and additional filters. She emphasized that the behavior dashboard would remain staff‑only for privacy reasons while the accountability dashboard would be published.
Staff also discussed survey participation rates for the climate and culture dashboard; one board member noted low submission counts visible in the dashboard’s drill‑downs. Miss Goody said the data display shows submission counts per question when hovered, and staff will continue to surface response counts and make the dashboards easier to navigate.
District staff invited board members to bookmark the dashboards and to suggest additional public‑facing or staff‑only filters. They said training and support will be available from Jenny Parnell and Kelly Bell, and that some district staff who hold Google trainer certifications will lead internal trainings for educators and leaders.
The demonstration ended with the district saying the "LRSD by the Numbers" dashboard would be embedded on the website and made public after a short internal review.