New Providence board hears phased rollout plan for LinkIt data platform to centralize student records

The Board of Education of the Borough of New Providence heard a presentation on LinkIt, a data‑warehousing platform the district plans to introduce incrementally to centralize student information and support instruction.

Administrator Mister Uglioro, who presented the platform, said LinkIt will bring together data from PowerSchool, state tests (NJSLA), diagnostics such as i‑Ready, attendance, discipline and other records so authorized users can analyze student performance in one place and monitor progress over time. “We now have more access immediately to a greater range of data than ever before,” Uglioro said, adding that the district will focus first on the platform’s data‑warehousing and intervention features.

The presentation emphasized four goals for LinkIt in New Providence: centralize student data, enable data‑driven leadership at the district and building level, put usable data in teachers’ hands over time, and use the intervention manager to track supports and progress. Uglioro described examples principals and counselors will be able to run, such as filtering cohorts by prior NJSLA performance, comparing diagnostic results with year‑end grades, and creating progress‑monitoring plans for individual students.

District leaders discussed a staged implementation schedule. Training has begun for central and school leaders; over the summer principals and directors will use LinkIt to help set goals for the coming year. Counselors and child study team staff will be trained at the start of the school year, followed by department heads and teacher leaders midyear, with broader teacher roster access planned for February of the following school year.

Board members asked several questions. A board member asked whether administrators could use LinkIt to compare New Providence data directly with other districts; Uglioro said they cannot: “We’re only able to look at our own district’s data. We can see national percentiles but not individual other districts,” he said. When asked whether parents could see a dashboard for an individual child, Uglioro said LinkIt offers a parent portal capability and that the district had not yet finalized plans to enable it. He also said the assessment module can allow students to take district‑created or purchased assessments on iPads and have results populate immediately in LinkIt, but he would confirm whether students can see their own dashboards.

Board members asked about security and privacy. Uglioro said LinkIt holds industry privacy and security certifications and that the district would share vendor documentation and links on those standards. He noted the company works with “over 700 school districts nationally and over 400 in New Jersey.”

Uglioro repeatedly emphasized that the district intends an incremental rollout to build staff capacity before giving classroom teachers broad access. He framed LinkIt as a tool to enrich relationships between educators, students and families rather than replace them, saying data will be used to inform conversations about supports rather than to substitute for them.

The board did not take formal action on LinkIt during the meeting; the presentation closed with a commitment from administration to return with implementation updates and additional details on family and student access.