This session presents the benefits and strategies for engaging with university partners to support the use of early childhood data. Anita McGinty (Director of Early Childhood with the Virginia Department of Education) and Erin Carroll (Research Associate Professor with the School of Education in Human Development at the University of Virginia) share their strategies for strong research to practice partnership in Virginia’s early childhood data effort.

Role of Research to Practice Partnerships in Using Early Childhood Data

On this episode, Phil Sirinides interviews Missy Coffey about her recent report with co-author Jenna Nguyen,  titled "Lessons Learned About ECIDS Teams, Infrastructure, and Composition."

With over a decade of experience in the field, Missy discusses the successes and challenges states face when putting together successful ECDIS project teams. Additionally, Missy explains the importance of being specific on the roles, capacity and amount of effort of teams, as states transition from planning to implementation of their early childhood data systems. And in order states to better accomplish their initiatives and goals in early childhood education,  Missy and Phil talk about the need to align organizational, human, and technical capacities across the ECIDS teams.

Building the Right Team: ECIDS Teams, Infrastructure, and Composition

While sharing data is an important goal, the most vital aspect of early childhood integrated data system (ECIDS) analytics is usefulness.

How do your analytics make it easier for policymakers, practitioners, and other stakeholders to effectively use data in their work? Will they lead to positive changes that meet the needs of your communities and address long-standing challenges for children and families?

As many in the ECIDS field have already learned, progress toward those goals can be difficult to measure.

In this episode, ECDataWorks co-principal investigators Missy Coffey (SRI International) and Phil Sirinides (Penn State Harrisburg) talk with state and national leaders about the importance of identifying appropriate indicators of ECIDS analytics success, and strategies to monitor and drive progress on ECIDS project teams.

Guests include Steven Matherly, Health Program Coordinator with the Utah Department of Health; Richard Gonzales, Preschool Development Grant project manager with the US Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families; Anita Larson, Director of Research, Planning and Evaluation and former ECIDS lead for the Minnesota Department of Education; and Jennifer Verbrugge, ECIDS lead for the Minnesota Department of Education.

Part of the ECDataWorks Community initiative, produced with support from the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Appropriately Defining Success for ECIDS Analytics

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