Yorktown updates board on EduCLIMBER dashboard used to centralize student data
Loading...
Summary
District staff said EduCLIMBER now centralizes academic, attendance, behavior and extracurricular tags to inform instruction, identify students who need support and allow configurable notifications; presenters said data are Section 2‑d compliant and pulled largely from in‑house systems.
Yorktown Central School District administrators on Feb. 10 demonstrated progress using EduCLIMBER, a district data dashboard designed to centralize student academic, attendance, behavior and extracurricular information to inform instruction and interventions.
Stephanie Conroy, the district’s MTSS coordinator, and Assistant Superintendent (presentation lead) described how the platform aggregates data from district systems and visualizes it for teachers, interventionists, counselors and administrators. Conroy said EduCLIMBER supports team decision-making by letting staff tag students by programs or activities, view assessment history, and track interventions over time.
Conroy walked the board through sample screens: a kindergarten roster with STAR Early Literacy benchmark results (85.5% at or above benchmark, 14.5% below), individual student profile pages that aggregate DIBELS, F&P, Lexia and other reading/maths data, and tags that capture extracurricular participation (for example, Math Honor Society, Medlife, orchestra, swimming). She showed how staff can trace a student’s progression out of a support tier and review the interventions that preceded the exit.
District officials said most data come automatically from the student information system (eSchool) and from teacher assessment platforms (eDoctrina), with some staff-entered narrative. The assistant superintendent said the platform and the district’s implementation are Section 2‑d compliant and that the data shown are maintained within the district.
Board members asked operational questions about access and notifications. Conroy explained permissions mirror eSchool rostering (teachers see their students; building staff can have broader view) and that the platform supports email notifications when staff are asked to contribute to forms. She said EduCLIMBER also supports configurable “thresholds” (for example, attendance, grades, incidents) that can generate counselor notification lists on daily, weekly or monthly schedules; the high school and middle school were working to standardize those thresholds.
Board members and administrators discussed governance and data quality. Officials said missing data are typically identified during scheduled data-team meetings (after benchmark periods); district staff run “guardrail” checks at least three times per year. Conroy and others said teachers and interventionists have begun using the platform for IST (instructional support team) forms, and the district plans additional training to build staff capacity and add more historical data points.
No formal action was taken; the presentation was described as an update on implementation and next steps.
