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Trustee urges district data dashboards; board weighs staff capacity and vendor options
Summary
Trustee Al Jaffee proposed creating business-intelligence dashboards to consolidate student- and program-level data for trustees, staff and the public. Other trustees raised concerns about bylaw limits and IT workload; a trustee recommended engaging an external firm to audit data sources and build dashboards while the superintendent noted some state dashboards already cover portions of the needed data.
Trustee Al Jaffee urged the Dearborn Board of Education to pursue districtwide data dashboards that would bring together multiple data sources (MiSTAR, WIDA, i-Ready and others) so leaders, teachers, and the public could more easily access and actionable data.
"We have a lot of data at the district... we just need to find a method to put the data together," Al Jaffee said, arguing a business-intelligence approach (for example, Power BI) would allow leaders to "slice and dice" data and help diagnose low proficiencies.
Another trustee cautioned that a board bylaw governs requests for…
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