Dr. Chad Stevens Shares the Secret to Family Engagement In Education 5/28/2024

Hello, Data-Driven Leaders! In this week’s edition of the Results. Amplified. Newsletter, learn the secret to family engagement in education from Dr. Chad Stevens. Also this week:?Modernizing case management and billing to better serve children, discover gaps and opportunities with your SLDS,?and more!?

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Dr. Chad Stevens Shares the Secret to Family Engagement In Education?

What does clean data have to do with student learning outcomes? Let Chad A. Stevens, Ph.D. explain what he learned from his career, including his work at ParentSquare .?

Clean data ?? Family contactability ?? Family engagement in education ?? Improved student learning outcomes.?

On the latest episode of Data-Driven Leadership, Chad joins guest host Curt M. to explore the intersection of data and student success. He explains the role of clean data, interoperability, and user experience in facilitating connections between schools and families.?

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Modernizing Case Management and Billing to Better Serve Children?

Colorado’s Office of the Child’s Representative (OCR) oversees attorneys who provide legal representation for children as guardians ad litem (GAL), counsel for children in dependency and neglect proceedings, and child legal representatives (CLR). OCR needed to streamline and modernize their current case management and billing system in order to better serve children and improve their financial stewardship of state funds. To modernize and streamline its reporting, billing, and case management processes for more than 800 staff and attorneys, the Office of the Child’s Representative needed a system as intuitive as it is efficient.?

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Discover Gaps and Opportunities with Your SLDS?

Harness the full potential of your State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) with AI insights. SLDS can do more than just track education and workforce outcomes. By integrating AI, states can provide residents with personalized recommendations for jobs, training, healthcare, and more. Our latest whitepaper explores real-world use cases and opportunities for broader applications of SLDS. See how AI-driven insights can transform public services and drive impactful outcomes for your community. ?

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Moving Data to the Cloud: Seven Tips to Choose Strategy and Tools?

Moving?data to the cloud can help manage costs and increase agility because it enables you to scale as needed for demand variations while simultaneously controlling costs. The cloud offers more choices—and oversight—for SaaS applications. Cloud provider marketplaces are filled with tools that can help you move your data, transform it, analyze it, and meet just about any other need you have. Here are some tips to keep in mind for a successful cloud migration and implementation.?

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The Big Benefits of Outsourcing Helpdesk Services?

Ever feel like you may not have enough IT people to go around, leading to long user wait times and lost productivity? Or do your IT experts unhappy with such a large focus on helping users install software updates? Your organization has higher-priority technology needs, but they often get stalled when your internal team is called to serve as the helpdesk. How can you serve your users without sacrificing your IT team? The answer is outsourcing your helpdesk services. Here are a few of the benefits.?

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State of Iowa Solves Workforce Dilemma through a Child Care Solution?

The COVID-19 pandemic greatly exacerbated child care shortage problems that continue today in most states. Early childhood care and education (ECE) is critical to child development; lack of available quality care impacts family livelihoods, community growth and stability, and business expansion—thereby affecting state economies. State of Iowa - Executive Branch Governor Kim Reynolds created the Child Care Task Force after her Economic Recovery Advisory Board examined strategies to help Iowa’s economy not only bounce back from the pandemic but grow. The advisory board identified affordable quality child care as a major barrier to the state’s workforce recovery and wanted to improve the ease with which both parents and care providers interface with the government agencies providing assistance.?

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