Vision to Know and Do:
The Power of Data as a Tool in Educational Decision Making

Sources

The following individuals shared their insights and experience through interviews and email exchanges with the author:

• John Burke, Director, Division of Information Services, Montgomery County Public Schools
• Stacey Campo, Instructional Technology Specialist, Poway Unified School District
• Sandra Cokeley Pedersen, Director Quality and Community Relations, Pearl River School District
• Robert Crumley, Assistant Superintendent, Chugach School District
• Bob Ewy, Director of Planning, Community Consolidated School District 15
• Marjorie DeWert, Educator Learning and Support, SAS inSchool
• John Holloway, Director, Educational Testing Service
• Debra Jones, Senior Advisor, Staff and School Division, SAS
• Tracy Jones, Data Systems Supervisor, Poway Unified School District
• Catherine Lumsden, Program Manager, Education, SAS
• Kathy Nobles, Data Analysis/Curriculum Consultant, Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
• Tom Olson, Executive Director, Western States Benchmarking Consortium
• John Porter, Associate Superintendent/CIO, Montgomery County Public Schools
• James E. Schnitz, Education Strategy Executive, IBM
• Steve Sutherland, Gateway Student System Consortium

Web Links and Articles

Baldrige National Quality Program
baldrige.nist.gov/Education_Criteria.htm

Chugach School District
www.chugachschools.com

Chugach School District Baldrige Award Profile
www.nist.gov/public_affairs/chugach.htm

Pearl River School District
www.pearlriver.k12.ny.us

Pearl River School District Baldrige Award Profile
www.nist.gov/public_affairs/peralriver.htm

Community Consolidated School District 15
www.ccsd15.net

IBM Case Study on CCSD15
www-1.ibm.com/industries/education/doc/content/casestudy/355324110.html

Montgomery County Public Schools
www.mcps.k12.md.us

Western States Benchmarking Consortium
www.wsbenchmark.org

Panhandle Area Educational Consortium
www.paec.org

Gateway Educational Computing Consortium
www.paec.org/gateway/

IBM Insight at School
www-1.ibm.com/industries/education/doc/content/solution/309650110.html

IBM Case Study on Broward County
www-1.ibm.com/industries/education/doc/content/casestudy/355665110.html

ETS Professional Practice for Leaders
www.ets.org/pathwise
www.ets.org/pathwise/slsdatadriven.html

SAS Value-add Assessment
www.sasinschool.com

SETDA Data Elements
www.setda.org/nli2002/CD/cde/cde06.htm

"When I Was Young…," American Demographics, April 2003, p. 9

"Best Practices," Super Tech News, April 2003.

Lisa A. Petrides and Susan Zahra Guiney, "Knowledge Management for School Leaders: An Ecological Framework for Thinking Schools," Teachers College Record, Volume 104, Number 8, December 2002, pp. 1702-1717.

The Growing Technology Gap Between Schools and Students: Findings from the BellSouth Foundation Power to Teach Program, BellSouth Foundation, April 2003.
www.bellsouthfoundation.org/pdfs/pttreport03.pdf

"Business Intelligence Buy-In," Information Week, May 12, 2003.
www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9700006

Dennis Sparks, "Interview with Michael Fullan: Change agent," Journal of Staff Development, Winter 2003 (Vol. 24, No. 1)
www.nsdc.org/library/jsd/fullan241.html

Ron Brandt, "Is this school a learning organization? 10 ways to tell," Journal of Staff Development, Winter 2003 (Vol. 24, No. 1)
www.nsdc.org/library/jsd/brandt241.html