SDP Convening 2017

With more than 55 hours of content, it's impossible for anyone to see and do everything at convening. To help you catch up on sessions you've missed and to keep convening content at your fingertips year-round, you can contribute and refer to this resource library. 

For each session, check out notes, files, resources and more. Upload your notes, photos, and related resources to each session you attend. Miss a session? Download the slide decks and notes of session attendees. 

One person can't see and do everything at convening, but all of SDP can come together to make sure that no one has to miss out. 

Find more by clicking on any of the sessions below or by following the link at the beginning of each session description. 

Plenary Sessions

• Open Book: Louis Gomez, 'Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better'
• Open Book: Rick Hess, 'Letters to a Young Education Reformer'
• Open Debate: The Obama to Trump Transition in Education Policy
• Open Forum: Roundtables
• How 'Open' Can Make a Real Impact in Education, or Lessons from the College Scorecard
• Getting to know OpenSDP

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Concurrent Sessions I

• Ed-Fi For All: Using open source data standards and technology to support teachers and students
• Open Dashboards: Creating Interactive Dashboards Using R Shiny
• Open Minds: SEL Research and Progress
• Open Tools: Evaluation with the Rapid Cycle Evaluation (RCE) Coach
• Opening the Floodgates: How to Leverage Your Role as ESSA Finally Rolls Out
• Thinking Like a Storyteller: Open Lessons from Data Journalism

Capstone Sessions I

• Building a Culture of Data Use for Leaders: Pro-”tool”-cols for the Trade
• Data Dashboards: Start to Finish
• Data Visualization to Improve Teacher Preparation
• Discerning Racial Inequities in Schools: Racial and Cultural Mismatches
• Pathways to Success: Using Student Data to Increase Career and College Readiness
• Program Evaluation of Student and Teacher-Based Interventions

Concurrent Sessions II

• Never Judge a Book by Its Cover: Building an Evidence Base on (Open and Closed) Instructional Materials
• Open Community: Using Git to Promote Collaboration and Reproducible Research
• Open Feedback Loop: Data, Observation, and Feedback Cycles at Achievement First
• Open Fire: Amplifying Your Data with Advocacy
• Open Road: From Advanced Coursetaking to College Success
• Open Tools: Using Google ‘Cheaps’ for Quality Dashboards and Reporting
• Open Wallets: Education Finance and ESSA

Friday, May 19, 2017

Concurrent Sessions III

• Cracking Open Machine Learning for Education Data Strategists
• Open Access: Evaluating Strategies for College Access and Success
• Open Agenda: Developing a Research Agenda in Your Education Agency
• Open and Early: Sounding the Alarm Using Warning and Success Indicator Systems
• Open and Shut: Connecting Effective Data Use to Strong Data Privacy
• Open Data: Do Stakeholders Actually Use Data Dashboards?

Capstone Presentations II

• A ‘Fitbit’ for Effective Learners
• College Readiness & Access Program Implementation Lessons 101
• Enhancing Organizational Capacity and Competence to Assess and Improve Program Effectiveness
• Overcoming Stakeholder Knowledge Gaps to Promote Culture Change
• Speed Data’ing
• The Challenge of Evaluating Non-Cognitive Skills