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assessment, demographic, and academic data. The EDW also generates and transfers data
files to business partners, including the Palm Beach County Healthcare District and other
agencies, to fulfill their data requirements. Additionally, EDW specialists provide professional
development sessions for users in the areas of awareness and quality assurance in
accessing and interpreting the student listing reports, graphs, summary tables, management
matrices, and data panels. Data from the EDW enables users to make well-informed
decisions leading to improvements in student achievement and performance.

The EDW has developed and hosts more than 400 reports. One of the immediate priorities
of the EDW team is to develop a new Key Performance Indicator dashboard to align with the
new District Strategic Plan. In addition, the development of College and Career Readiness
reports at the District, school, and student level will be developed over the next three years.
Finally, the development of student learning growth reports that will enable schools and
leaders to understand the relationship between the FLDOE's Value-Added Model scores and
student performance will be another key priority. The EDW has set the framework in place
for scaling to a robust Enterprise Data Warehouse. In addition to student data, the
Enterprise Data warehouse will incorporate other data sources such as HR, financial, school
transportation, and school food service. Seamless integration processes will enable more
frequent loading of transactional data into the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Responsibilities
of the EDW specialists will expand to create reports with the new data and provide
professional development to users.

Data needs to be in the hands of all stakeholders including educators, students, parents,
guardians, school principals, and administrators who have the ability to make decisions
regarding student progress and achievement. Parents and guardians are stakeholders who
currently have access to EDW individual student reports through the parent portal (Edline)
and conferences with school-based personnel. The EDW team will investigate methods to
allow parents/guardians to access an expanded array of reports specific to individual
students. To provide access, the EDW team will partner with IT to address hardware,
software, security, and Service Desk support processes and functions.

Florida Standards
A major challenge faced by the District is the shift from the NGSS standards to the Florida
Standards (FS) in 2015. These new standards continue to require updated formative and
diagnostic assessments, potentially from multiple sources (both in-house and from various
vendors) as well as an assessment platform that is web-based, flexible, available 24/7, and
linked to targeted best-practice resources for teachers and students. The Division of Quality
Assurance will collaborate with K-12 Curriculum, Professional Development, and IT to
implement a system of teaching and formative assessment to increase the ability of
teachers to support student learning during instruction and to facilitate the ability of
students to monitor their own learning.

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