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District officials and sites highlight Data Director and SchoolLoop uptake and parent outreach plans
Summary
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 1,700 unique users and nearly 28,000 logins since rollout. He demonstrated sample pivot and cluster reports that let teachers and principals identify students who had moved between proficiency levels and drill down to individual performance indicators.
Site presenters from Gordon J. Lau and Roosevelt Middle School showed practical uses: combining intervention records, tracking parent participation, posting site-based assessment data and using Data Director to create longitudinal student profiles. The district’s evaluation staff said they are using the tool to track cohorts and program outcomes.
On SchoolLoop, Chief Technology Officer Brianne Meyer outlined a phased launch (system setup, liaison training, teacher training, parent outreach). She said October adoption in high schools reached about 72% of teachers actively using the system; several high‑adoption schools reported registration rates for families ranging from about 21% to 69%. The team described parent outreach that will include phone calls in multiple languages, community training partners, and targeted campaigns to register families.
School leaders and parents reported early benefits: teachers posting daily assignments, parents receiving nightly emails with grade and attendance updates, and students checking grades and assignments online. District staff acknowledged the digital divide and described plans to map connectivity by ZIP code, offer community lab hours, and use volunteer trainers to provide native-language support.
What’s next: Staff will provide adoption statistics to board members on request, continue training liaisons, expand parent outreach and integrate promising-practice tracking with Data Director for evaluation.
