The Challenge
The primary challenge is that attendance data will immediately become opaque by end users.
Staff, administrators, family members, community members, AND the students themselves don’t have an idea of the impact of missing school. Specifically, the impact the attendance has on state dollars (of course, missing school has a LARGE impact on student performance as well).
Most districts attempt to tackle this challenge with dreaded “spreadsheets from hell”. Someone on the team gathers the data, combines it with other sources, shares with folk, those folk copy it, and you keep you fingers crossed that the message is delivered. It’s like a bad game of telephone. And it takes a lot of time and effort.
The Transparency
When we work with districts, we integrate with a multitude of data sources. We build real-time dashboards that display a school’s ADA and the estimated cost of missing students.
Take this dashboard as an example.
