Data and Privacy

Data privacy and security are foundational elements of digital learning. The district ensures that sound data governance policies are enacted and enforced to ensure the privacy, safety, and security of confidential data sets. Such policies and procedures ensure that access to authorized persons is secure. Education professionals have a range of resources, trainings, and services available to build their awareness and capacity to implement such policies and procedures with precision.

The elements that comprise this Gear are as follows:

Data and Data Systems
Data Policies, Procedures, and Practices
Data-Informed Decision Making
Data Literate Education Professionals

A personalized, learner-centered environment uses technology to collect, analyze, and organize data to provide continuous cycles of feedback to students, teachers and other education professionals, with the intent of increasing the depth, breadth, complexity, and efficiency of learning. All policies and practices ensure student data privacy.

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Featured Resources

Designing for Equity: Leveraging Competency-Based Education to Ensure All Students Succeed

This publication offers equity strategies for personalized, competency-based education to ensure a more equitable K-12 education system. Districts and schools can use the equity principles within this report to develop an equity agenda within their personalized, competency-based systems. Competency-based education systems, designed to ensure all students achieve success, holds promise as a uniquely powerful model for fostering equity, but only if equity is an intentional design feature embedded in the culture, structure and pedagogy.
iNACOL

Quality and Equity by Design: Charting the Course for the Next Phase of Competency-Based Education

as a eld we are entering a new stage that requires a robust commitment and vigorous intentionality towards creating the culture, structure, policies and instructional practices that will produce schools that fully support each and every student in their journey towards preparation for college, career and life. Designing for equity and quality is the only path forward to creating an education system that is e ective for every student, not just for some. If we fail to do so, students will not receive the education they so deeply deserve and as a movement competency-based education may falter.
iNACOL, Nellie Mae, Carnegie, Barr Foundation, Donnell-Kay Foundation

BLENDING TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY: SIMPLE STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVED STUDENT LEARNING

The new guidebook, Blending Teaching and Technology: Simple Strategies for Improved Student Learning, offers school district leaders a collection of strategies aligned to the Future Ready Schools® framework for implementing an instructional approach supported by blended learning.
Alliance for Excellent Education

Getting the Facts Straight About Education Data

Education data can empower educators, students, parents, and policymakers with the information they need to make the best decisions to improve student achievement, information that can move the nation toward an education system in which every student graduates prepared for college and career. Safeguarding the privacy of student data is a critical component of effective data use, and this data stewardship is a shared responsibility.
Data Quality Campaign

Federal Privacy Laws that Apply to Children and Education

This table identifies federal policies that safeguard and protect the confidentiality of personal information. Although this list is not exhaustive, it highlights key federal policies related to education records, health information, and the online activities of children. For detailed information about each law, just click on the title.
Data Quality Campaign

Roadmap to Safeguarding Student Data

If our destination is improved student achievement, we cannot get there without valuing and effectively using data in education. Central to reaching this goal is building trust among all those who have a stake in education that individual student data, such as attendance, course taking, grades, and test scores, are being collected for meaningful purposes and kept safe, secure, and private.
Data Quality Campaign

Additional Resources

Elements and Levels of Readiness

Data and privacy are foundational elements of digital learning. A personalized, learner-centered environment uses technology to collect, analyze, and organize data to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of learning. Data is the building block of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments—all of which are key elements in a system where learning is personalized, individualized, and differentiated to ensure learner success. The district ensures that sound data privacy and security policies, procedures, and practices are in place at the district, school, classroom, and student levels.

The Future Ready Framework

Data and Privacy

Featured Resources

Additional Resources

Elements and Levels of Readiness

Data and Data Systems

Data Policies, Procedures, and Practices

Data-Informed Decision Making

Data Literate Education Professionals