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District officials and sites highlight Data Director and SchoolLoop uptake and parent outreach plans

San Francisco Board of Education · November 10, 2009
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SFUSD staff showed teachers and board members how Data Director and SchoolLoop are being used to track student data, benchmarks and to connect families to classroom information; staff shared usage metrics and early adoption rates and described outreach to parents to narrow the digital divide.

District staff and school-site representatives presented two related technology rollouts — Data Director, an internal data system for teachers and principals, and SchoolLoop, a classroom portal intended to improve home–school communication.

Ritu Khanna and John Burke of Research, Planning and Accountability described Data Director as a centralized repository for state assessment history, demographic data and district benchmark assessments. Burke said the district had run about 85 training sessions since August, reached more than 75 sites, and recorded roughly…

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