Tools
ECDataWorks has collaborated with state partners to develop openly-available resources to improve delivery of ECIDS
Creating ECIDS Use Cases
School Readiness Tool
ECDataWorks developed the Expanded School Readiness Framework to help states explore the preparedness of schools, communities, and children. Expanded school readiness reports allow for tracking progress toward state school readiness goals and inform decisions such as: identifying needs for teachers, programs, and classrooms; identifying best practices and improve instruction in specific domains; developing strategies for collaborating across schools and community providers to prepare for incoming kindergartners; allocating funding for early childhood programs and school districts; and establishing strategies to engage parents.
Community Assessment Tool
ECDataWorks developed the Community Assessment Framework to guide states in the integration and use of early childhood data across four key areas: eligibility, access, services, and impact. Tools and reports that align with this framework can support early childhood providers, advocates, state administrators, and policymakers with strategic planning.
Data Story Builder
ECDataWorks developed the Data Story Framework to guide states in bringing together comprehensive data and informing action steps. The framework includes four key elements: conclusions, narrative, visuals, and key takeaways.
Minnesota has been able to ensure that our early ECIDS work is more universally useful to stakeholders. In particular, the ECDataWorks opportunity helped us to take the time to fully explore the needs of an important user group and develop a tool to meet those needs. Our data story tool is expected to help busy leaders take in and use the information from our ECIDS that they may not otherwise. ECDataWorks provided us with the time, consultation, and resources to complete this work and build internal capacity as well. In particular, our implementation of Tableau Server creates a much abbreviated analytics development process allowing us to save significant IT resources and engage the program, or business side in much more of the work of exploring the data and creating requirements for informative stories: in essence, moving the agile IT process more to the business side where the meaning of the data and its use is more understood. The creation of this tool has also been another opportunity for us to collaborate across our partner agencies and programs to create a more nuanced and contextualized product from our joint work.
— Minnesota Team
