Parents & Community Leaders
The printer friendly documents to your right have been developed as a starting point for SETDA members. The material highlights strategies and language that can be used to persuade parents and community leaders within your state that there is a necessity for robust statewide data systems.
Each one is easily tailored to suit your own needs. The common thread being the need to ensure proper NCLB compliance, but more importantly using statewide data systems to improve teacher quality and individualize instruction for all learners.
Goal
To become a consistent resource and advocate on the potential of statewide data systems to address:
- Analyzing information about schools for comparison
- Using leadership skills to improve schools with data
- Informing the community of strengths and weaknesses of schools
- Sharing this data with elected officials for the purpose of school improvement
Strategies & Audiences
Collect the names, titles, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of each of the following audiences within your state. Reaching out to them consistently with pertinent news articles, facts, invitations to events, and agency press releases is critical to making your case the practitioners.
Business & Community
- Business Leaders
- Mayors
- City Council Members
Parents
- Parents
- Grandparents
- Parent Teacher Organizations
Education Special Interests
- After School Programs
- 21st Century Community Learning Center Grantees
- Community Advocate Groups
- Gifted & Talented
- Special Education
- Minority Groups
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Call to Action letter
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“Working through this process has provided me an opportunity to learn with my peers and develop tools that will help SETDA members make the case for statewide data systems within their states.”
Larry Cocco
Manager
Educational Technology
New Jersey Dept. of Ed. |
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