Transforming Education Data for Literacy and Improved Student Outcomes for All: Advancing Data Interoperability in Nebraska K–12
Transforming Education Data for Literacy and Improved Student Outcomes for All explores Nebraska’s multi-year effort to make K–12 education data more accessible, actionable, and aligned with the needs of educators and students. Through the Nebraska Education Data Partnership (NEDP) and the state’s ADVISER system—built on the Ed-Fi Data Standard—Nebraska is connecting data across classrooms, districts, and Education Service Units to support better instructional decisions and improve literacy outcomes.
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How Education Providers Can Use OBC to Sustain Long-term and Efficacious Partnerships
Outcomes based contracting (OBC) offers an innovative approach to addressing the fundamental challenges in edtech procurement by restructuring how districts select, implement, and pay for edtech products and services.
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Better Edtech Buying: A Practical Guide - Revised Edition
To provide more insight and guidance into how edtech purchasing happens and consider how educators and leaders can work together to make more informed purchasing decisions, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and Project Unicorn have released Better Edtech Buying: A Practical Guide - Revised Edition.
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Privacy, Security, Interoperability
Why One Supports the Other: Data interoperability is a helpful component to building and maintaining quality software. Interoperability isn't a panacea, but making intentional and informed choices about implementing an interoperability standard contribute to better development practice, better privacy practice, and better security practice. Here are 5 ways interoperability, privacy, and security enhance each other.
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Standards Glossary V2
The Standards Glossary by Project Unicorn is a directory that contains a list of Interoperability Standards in K-12.
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Standards Certification Jump-Start Guide
Being certified to a data standard signals to customers that your product is truly interoperable. Certification gives buyers the confidence that their educational data will flow seamlessly and securely between their applications. Discover steps to certification for Ed-Fi Alliance, Access 4 Learning Community, and IMS Global here.
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Ed-Fi: A Practical Guide to Interoperability Use Cases
Clarity around how the Ed-Fi Alliance Standards and IMS Global Learning Consortium® Standards can be used in support of educators is a common and increasingly frequent request from the Ed-Fi Community. In many cases, Ed-Fi and IMS Global standards often seek to solve different problems, and therefore a better understanding of the tools and functionality available for various use cases is important to selecting the best solution for a given use case. Each organization’s technologies provide real, and distinct, value to users in their daily lives and work….
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Privacy and Equity in the New School Year
As local and state governments, businesses, and institutions across the country implement the first phases of reopening after weeks of lockdown, schools are beginning to plan for learning this fall…
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Benefits of Signing the Project Unicorn Pledge
Learn about the benefits of signing the Project Unicorn pledge which includes joining a community of districts and vendors, access to other resources, scholarships, and technical support.
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First 3 Steps for State Leaders
Learn about how you can get started with Data Interoperability if you are a state leader.
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Interoperability Standards in Education
Learn about the different organizations in K-12 that provide data standards to make Data Interoperability possible.
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Why Data Interoperability Matters for Schools
Learn more about why Data Interoperability matters to schools.
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Why Data Interoperability Matters for Vendors
Learn more about why Data Interoperability matters for Vendors.
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First 3 Steps for Superintendents
Learn more about starting your journey towards interoperability as a superintendent.
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State Strategies to Develop Teacher Capacity for Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
This issue brief shares state policy recommendations and action steps for policymakers who are supporting the redesign of educator workforce systems.
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Ed-Fi Sample RFP Language
Insert language from our partners at EdFi in your requests for proposals so that your school or district procures only technologies that are interoperable.
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10 Questions for EdTech Vendors
Know Before You Buy: When purchasing products for your district, ask the vendors you are considering these questions.
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I'm a District: Where do I Start?
School District Administrators: If you are just getting started with interoperability, use these first practical steps to begin.
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Interoperability Rubric
How does your school network rank? Review the rubric to assess your tier of interoperability.
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Why Vendors Should Prioritize Interoperability
Your customers are demanding interoperability. As more and more school districts commit to procuring interoperable EdTech products and platforms, it's important for vendors to stay ahead of the curve.
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