A Date with Data
A Date with Data
Podcast Description
Special education staff have been asking to hear from staff in other states and districts about what they’re doing that’s working and lessons they’ve learned, so we’re throwing a spotlight on your IDEA data stories. Join your host, Amy Bitterman, as she chats with state and district special education staff, who, just like you, are dealing with IDEA data every day. We hope that by sharing these real experiences, you’ll be able to feel more connected to colleagues in other states doing the same work, grow together, and, ultimately, improve your data quality.
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The podcast focuses on themes such as special education data, data quality improvement, and stakeholder engagement. Specific episodes explore topics like the significance of preschool data through interviews with state experts, the impact of local data literacy initiatives in West Virginia, and collaborative stories from states like Puerto Rico and Georgia about building effective data systems.
Special education staff have been asking to hear from staff in other states and districts about what they’re doing that’s working and lessons they’ve learned, so we’re throwing a spotlight on your IDEA data stories. Join your host, Amy Bitterman, as she chats with state and district special education staff, who, just like you, are dealing with IDEA data every day. We hope that by sharing these real experiences, you’ll be able to feel more connected to colleagues in other states doing the same work, grow together, and, ultimately, improve your data quality.
Here are some words to live by: It pays to be prepared. As states get ready to take part in OSEP’s differentiated monitoring and support 2.0 (DMS), they might be asking what can we do to prepare for the process? What is DMS 2.0 like? And, crucially, how will our efforts help improve our state’s IDEA data? In part one of this special two-part A Date with Data, host Amy Bitterman heads south to the Magnolia State to chat with the Mississippi Department of Special Education’s Jennifer Boykin and the Bureau of Data and Compliance’s Sharon Coon for an up-close look at this all-important process.
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