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2023 brings new opportunities to further strengthen our collaboration and to promote strong data quality. As we now know, this year will bring the new EDPass system, along with new processes to follow and new opportunities to endorse and improve data quality and data use.

Are you ready for EDFacts modernization? Help ensure a smooth transition to using EDPass to submit your 618 data collections with this series of guided questions designed to help you conduct a review of your state’s data processes.

We want to remind you that we are offering each state the opportunity to have IDC staff review drafts of your SPP/APR indicators, including the SSIP. But the clock is ticking so don’t hesitate to reach out to IDC for review and feedback.To take advantage of this opportunity, please contact your IDC State Liaison.

New relationships are great, sure, but what most of us strive for are long-lasting, meaningful connections. That’s the goal in Georgia anyway, where Part B data managers Dawn Kemp and Dominique Donaldson are keeping stakeholders on their mind as they implement strategies to improve and expand stakeholder engagement.

Have you heard the buzz? There’s a new way to learn more about IDC tools and resources and enhance your role as a data quality influencer: IDC’s exclusive Hands-On Learning Academies (HOLAs). Read on to learn more about our February 2023 Preschool Environments HOLA and get an insider’s view of these fun and intimate meetings that offer states an opportunity to learn and connect like never before.

Did your state receive OSEP comments for Indicator 4 in the FFY2021 SPP/APR submission? An increased focus on significant discrepancies in discipline not only challenges states to examine Indicator 4 but also makes the importance of attending to basics apparent. Understanding concepts like comparison group, calculation method, minimum cell and n-sizes, and threshold is prerequisite before a state examines “reasonably designed methodology” for Indicator 4. In this IDC webinar event, we discussed these topics and more, including the critical decision points necessary for consideration when it comes to Indicator 4.

In our last episode of A Date with Data, we got to know the Ohio IDEA Data Team. Now it's time for a deeper dive. Join host Amy Bitterman as she continues her conversation with this innovative octet as they cover strategies for the collection, analyzation, reporting, improvement, and use of IDEA data. Pull up a chair; there's room for one more.