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Data Warehouse Information (Thanks Elaine) http://www.follettsoftware.com/ http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/technology/datawarehouse.shtm http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22679 http://www.electronic-school.com/199909/0999f1.html

Click on links below to download prsentation templates: [|Perf Path Presentation.doc] [|Tetra Data Presentation.doc] [|Comp Data Anal Prsentation.doc] [|On Hand Schools2 Presentation.doc] ** What is the purpose for the Data Warehouse Committee? The general purpose is to find a program that will consolidate our data from various sources in a clean, accurate, and timely manner. ** Here is a list of 5 possible programs. I compiled this list simply by calling various educators and asking questions. If you know of other programs that we should take a look at, please let me know. Let's begin by each of us taking a few moments to think about the possibilities/questions a warehouse will bring.If you don't mind, I'd like to use a WIKI so that we can all update the document without one person needing to put all the responses together. __Trish Goodyear, Steph Gladfelter, & Jeff C. - Performance Pathways__ **
 * Tetra Data by Follett
 * Performance Pathways
 * Comprehensive Data Analysis (CDA) from IU 3 - this is the program that IU 15 supports
 * On Hands Learning
 * 4sight has a program within it....i don't know much about it
 * **If we had a data warehouse program, how...** || **If we had a data warehouse program, what...** || **If we had a data warehouse program we could...** ||
 * could it help improve student learning? || current data programs that we have would it not be able to pull from? || put all our data in one place ||
 * would it interface w/our existing system(s)? || data do we want it to contain..report card grades, pssa performance levels, aimsweb, study island, DRA's, quarterly benchmark assessments, ..? || provide the ability for teachers & administrators to access real-time data on every student. ||
 * often is data updated or is it real-time data? || professional development is needed and is it included with the purchase of the program? || use data to inform our decisions regarding instructional programming ||
 * || type of data analysis options comes with it? || Assist psychologists with data for Child Study meetings and Evaluation Reports ||
 * || technical support is provided and when? || Assist with data needed for grants, awards, etc. ||
 * || is the district and/or per pupil cost ||  ||
 * What level of security does the system have? ||  ||   ||
 * March 9, 2009 at 12noon in DO board room
 * SIF Certified
 * currently in 150 PA school districts and 600 school districts nation wide
 * performance tracker and assessment builder are two main products, also have tech paths
 * can pull data from multiple sources: DRA, Dibels, 4sight, Aimsweb, Study Island, CSIU, DRC, ..
 * $11 per student($5 for perf tracker and $ 3 for assessment builder and #3 for tech paths) in year 1 and $6 per student($2 for perf tracker and $1 for assessment builder and $3 for tech paths) in years 2, 3,...
 * $6000 start up costs - year 1 only
 * staff training for perf tracker and assessment builder is $2250 per session year 1 only
 * staff training for tech paths is additional $2250 per session – year 1 only
 * teachers need 1 day of training, admin needs 2 days
 * IEP and Gifted is $7.50 per student, $1500 set up fee
 * 10000 items aligned to anchors to be used for local benchmarks
 * we can administer the 4sight benchmarks through the "assessment builder" part of program
 * they house warehouse
 * appox. 4 weeks to get up performance tracker part of program up and running and running
 * Perf Path Meets with Dist Ldshp Team
 * Pick Data to be in initial upload
 * Perf Path uploads that data
 * Perf Path meets with Dist Ldshp Team to learn how to use perf tracker
 * query options are preset and are "point & click" method for report options
 * Backed by Sun Guard-Fort 500
 * we call them when we want data uploads
 * they pull PSSA data from DRC


 * __Craig Smith - Follett Software Company - TetraData Analysis Solutions__ **
 * March 16, 2009 at 2:30 in DO board room
 * Tetra charges us less (approx. $10 per student per year) if we allow them to host data warehouse (Texas) - b/c customer support is easier for them when they host
 * Other savings for us if tetra hosts, we don't have to purchase equipment/server/hard drive space,.we would not have to back up data.. plus tetra's IT dept can handle many of issues from host site saving our tech guys from doing work
 * tetra data system would communicate with our various systems: CSIU, Study Island, AimsWeb, PVASS, SIS and whatever other programs we want it to pull information from
 * We can pre program varied upload schedules for various data sets-for example-our SIS would be updated nightly while our students pssa scores would be updated in the summer each year and then fall for gr. 12 retakes, etc...
 * Dashboard Product - query options are preset -for teacher use
 * Analyzer Product - allows you to create own query and offers more in depth data -for administration use
 * Dashboard and Analyzer products are now offered together
 * TetraData does all project management, set-up, professional development (multiple sessions)
 * If we were to decide to go with tetra data the estimated time to set-up system, train staff, etc.. is 3-6 months


 * __Comprehensive Data Analysis (CDA)-Sue Voigt from CAIU__**
 * March 24th at 2pm in the DO
 * Developed by Alleghany Intermediate Unit #3
 * Prevalent in Western PA
 * IU # 3 has contracted with CAIU to provide training, do demos, and give tech support to districts


 * __On Hand Schools - Gilbert Iacono__**
 * March 26th at 1:30pm in the DO
 * warehouse data on site or at IU 1, 4, 21, 28 or 7
 * 72 school districts in PA use it w/15 more coming on board this year
 * does have districts using CSIU
 * Two components: Data Warehouse and Curriculum
 * SIF compliant
 * Use a subcommittee formed by members of user districts-this subcommittee makes program change recommendations
 * $6.25 per student if buy both packages with no initial fee if sign for 3 or more years
 * $7500 set-up fee if we don't sign 3 year or more contract
 * 2 days of training sessions are included in the above per student price
 * Uses train the trainer model
 * tech support availalbe 7:30am-4pm M-F
 * uploads data 2 x per day
 * has two upload features- a universal for all standardized data sources and another component for unique district data sources
 * teacher training is one 90 minute session and admin training is one 4 hour session
 * point and click for teachers-keyboard rarely needed
 * 3-4 weeks to be operational
 * templates available for curric maps, unit maps, lesson plans or we can upload our current maps
 * the fields can be changed on their curric and lesson plan templates
 * PSSA from DRC
 * Can run scope and sequence reports for curriculum to tell us where, when, and how often we are teacing various standards
 * has a resource bank shared by teachers of all districts
 * has a parent portal
 * has IEP writer
 * web based