Data Impact & Leadership

Through the Data Impact & Leadership portfolio:

  • We strengthen state- and community-level data capacity and systems.
  • We deliver integrated data through tools for practitioners, policymakers, and youth.
  • We engage with communities to utilize quantitative and qualitative data and evidence to inform pathways and transitions into postsecondary.
  • We establish evaluation frameworks to assess and improve policy and program implementation.

Current Projects

Here’s what we’re working on in the Data Impact & Leadership portfolio:

Data Impact & Leadership

Academic Progress Indicator for Chicago Public Schools

EdSystems is supporting the district’s development of a new Academic Performance Indicator so that schools can better use standardized test data to understand the success of their interventions, including professional development, changes in curriculum, and innovative approaches to student support.
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College & Career Pathways, Data Impact & Leadership

Accelerated Model Pathways for Information Technology (AMP-IT)

The AMP-IT initiative is engaging school districts and their community college and employer partners to design and launch an accelerated IT pathway.
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College & Career Pathways, Bridges to Postsecondary, Data Impact & Leadership

Great Lakes College and Career Readiness State Advocacy Network

To support actionable policy development for high-impact college and career readiness strategies, EdSystems is participating in a cross-state community of practice.
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Data Impact & Leadership

Illinois Education and Career Success Network Dashboard

To support Success Network Leadership Communities, the dashboard serves as a single stop for data to inform community decisions in advancement of equitable postsecondary attainment.
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College & Career Pathways, Bridges to Postsecondary, Data Impact & Leadership

Illinois Education and Career Success Network: Policy Committee

EdSystems staffs the Success Network’s Policy Committee to foster collaboration and peer learning, elevate local practice to inform state policy, and support local practitioners.
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Data Impact & Leadership

Illinois Longitudinal Data System

The Illinois Longitudinal Data System (ILDS) provides the governance and technical systems that support the integration of longitudinal data across participating Illinois state agencies.
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Data Impact & Leadership

Rockford Regional Education Research Collaborative

To understand the long-term outcomes of pathways students in the Rockford region, the Rockford Regional Education Research Collaborative has designed a data infrastructure that leverages both state- and local-level data.
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College & Career Pathways, Data Impact & Leadership

Scaling Transformative Advanced Manufacturing Pathways (STAMP)

STAMP serves secondary districts in implementing manufacturing pathways that align to the College and Career Pathway Endorsement, with a particular focus on historically marginalized students.
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Project Archive

Review past projects in the Data Impact & Leadership portfolio:

Data Impact & Leadership

Chicago Early Childhood Integrated Data System

Launched in 2022, the Chicago Early Childhood Integrated Data System (CECIDS) is integrating data across systems and programs to enable creation of more timely and actionable data analyses and products that serve families, program administrators, funders, advocates and policymakers.
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College & Career Pathways, Data Impact & Leadership

Elgin: Expanding College and Career Pathways

Elgin’s Alliance for College Readiness engaged EdSystems to support alignment to the new College and Career Pathway Endorsement system and the State’s new Perkins V plan.
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College & Career Pathways, Data Impact & Leadership

Great Lakes College and Career Pathways Partnership

Since 2016, EdSystems has provided the Great Lakes College and Career Pathways Partnership with strategic expertise and technical assistance.
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Data Impact & Leadership

Illinois Postsecondary Profiles

Illinois Postsecondary Profiles (IPP) is an online resource for data describing 2- and 4-year postsecondary institutions in Illinois.
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College & Career Pathways, Bridges to Postsecondary, Data Impact & Leadership

Postsecondary Leadership Series

In support of the OneGoal team and their Postsecondary Leadership Series, the EdSystems team is providing two primary services: capacity-building for OneGoal staff and advising for partner-facing content relating to college and career pathways, early college credit, transitional instruction, work-based learning, and data.
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Data Impact & Leadership

Pro Path Illinois

EdSystems supports the Common Program Information component of Pro Path Illinois, to enhance and align data captured across state administrative systems.
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