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Kansas strategic‑plan progress dashboard launched as a living tracker; team seeks local data and feedback
Summary
KU Center for Public Partnerships and Research demonstrated the All In for Kansas Kids strategic plan progress dashboard, built on MySidewalk, and asked partners to submit de‑identified data, initiatives and feedback for quarterly updates of the dashboard.
Sarah Gardner, an ambassador for the strategic plan at the KU Center for Public Partnerships and Research, presented the Strategic Plan Progress Dashboard during the Feb. 11 All In for Kansas Kids webinar and described it as a dynamic tool to document statewide progress on early childhood goals.
Gardner said the dashboard functions like a website and is intended to be a living, editable tracker that rolls up outcome data, initiatives and bright spots so decisionmakers at state, community and program levels can see where to invest limited resources. “The dashboard is not a static tool. You can think of it very much like a website,” she said.
She described the dashboard’s organization: priority areas (for example, workforce supports, improving referrals and system navigation, expanding access), a “what we’re doing” section that aligns initiatives with strategic‑plan actions, and a “how we’re doing” section with data stories and indicators of progress. Gardner said the team put an initial set of data on the site as an MVP and expects to expand content as partners share local and de‑identified aggregate data.
Gardner demonstrated examples: the workforce registry (CAPE) profiles and visualizations, and MySidewalk‑powered maps that can surface national and local context such as mental‑health provider density by county. She said the tool can combine professional development, registry profiles and other collections so users see a more complete picture of workforce capacity.
On data governance and cadence, Gardner said the dashboard will not publish personally identifiable information, will accept partner submissions via a web form or email, and will receive formal quarterly updates while allowing smaller corrections between cycles. She invited attendees to explore the dashboard at allinforkansaskids.org, use the feedback form, or set up implementation calls to provide data and initiative highlights.
Gardner closed by encouraging partners to share de‑identified aggregate data and initiative descriptions so the dashboard better represents local work and to expect monthly spotlights drawn from dashboard content in the All In for Kansas Kids communications.
