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TetraData: How It Works
Start building a sustainable data-driven culture today with TetraData Insights
TetraData Insights incorporates best practice processes and technology tools to provide districts with a quick start to their data-driven decision-making initiative, whatever their current level of data sophistication may be. With TetraData Insights, you’ll quickly begin using your core data, including student, school and test information, to focus on student learning. Insights also helps you effectively start communicating key information to each member of your team so they understand where to best start focusing their attention and efforts.
With this solution, Follett Software consolidates multiple measures of data into a central K-12 data warehouse where it will be immediately available for analysis and reporting. We also facilitate a Strategic Alignment Workshop to help you understand how to connect your district’s strategic goals to the objectives and metrics needed to measure progress toward those goals.
Insights’ data management, business intelligence and dashboard tools and project management processes come together in an implementation that includes role-appropriate professional development at the point of need. It also emphasizes the development of “data coaches” in each school for teacher support.
A comprehensive solution
TetraData Insights includes the following technology components:
- TetraData DASH™, a multi-level K-12 dashboard that uses gauges and color-coding to communicate progress at a glance. It also helps districts communicate more easily, and align district goals with national mandates and district strategies to achieve vision alignment. Colorful, easy-to-read gauges reveal important information to educators without the need to dig, and give busy teachers and principals a mechanism to focus on key measures and indicators, and prioritize their improvement goals.
- A series of standard enrollment, test and student profile reports that provide detailed information for teachers and principals to apply to their instructional decisions.
- An ad hoc education data analysis tool for your researchers and analysts to use in exploring trends and uncovering previously “hidden” relationships between student progress and school processes.
When your district selects TetraData Insights, you’re investing in your future as a data-driven organization. As your technology partner, Follett Software is committed to providing a solution—a combination of tools and processes—that will fulfill your district’s current needs and grow with you as your needs grow and change.
A consultative process
Follett Software’s experience working with a broad spectrum of K-12 school districts has shown us how important it is to establish clear goals and objectives for putting data to use in your district in order to get real value out of your investment. To help you accomplish this important first step, we provide guidance on how your data can drive progress toward your improvement goals, then work with you to develop a model that will help you achieve those goals.
Making the complex as simple as it can be
What sets our technology solution apart from the rest is exactly that level of guidance and support you’ll only find working with the leader in K-12 integrated educational technologies. We know how to bridge the gap between the ideal situation and your real situation. We know the right questions to ask to lead your district from where you are now to where you need to be. We share examples of best practices from other districts to provide context for what TetraData can help you achieve, along with the unique perspective and expertise developed from our partnerships throughout the K-12 education community.
Finally, we’re keenly aware of how challenging it can sometimes be to align all your stakeholders in support of such a complex new initiative. We can show you how to champion these important changes within your district with a strong team, a clear vision and a successful communication plan.
A staged approach to ensure your success
Our proven, staged implementation process is based on best practices, and structured for quick, effective startup. In our multi-level approach to teaming with your key stakeholders, we conduct a thorough requirements analysis, and use the insights gained to drive the solutions, services and support we recommend going forward. This includes data profiling to identify your data gaps and discrepancies prior to implementation, ensuring you get a solid start—with clean, consolidated data—for faster, better results.
Project Management
Follett Software’s expertise sets you up for sustained excellence, with Project Managers who champion your district’s implementation. You can count on a single point of contact during the implementation process—a professional who is assigned to you, not just a project, serving as an advocate who can streamline communication and oversee your project’s needs.
Follett Software incorporates best-practice solution components into the district environment by following its project management methodology. Throughout this innovative process, you work with Follett to plan, organize and control engagement initiatives. Your Follett Software Project Manager will work alongside you to define and document scheduling, expectations, resources, benchmarks, milestones and quality standards related to the scope of the work.
During implementation, your Project Manager uses status calls and reports, project change requests and onsite visits in order to effectively communicate your project’s progress, and streamlines the project for you by coordinating district resources, partner and Follett resources.
- Onsite Mentoring
- Train-the-Trainer
- Onsite Coaching
Additional training options offer innovative processes to help you plan, organize and control your engagement initiatives.
Data Services
Whether you need comprehensive or occasional support, the TetraData team can help you extend the reach of your own technology team with just the right level of support.
TetraData Management Services ensure that modifications to your school’s data movement plans and customized warehouse are handled by professionals familiar with the nuances of K-12 performance data. The availability of technology resources varies widely from district to district, so Follett’s Data Management Services are designed to deliver exactly the level of support you need, including:
- Assistance running the Data On Demand (DOD) plans developed by TetraData.
- Maintenance of existing DOD plans developed by TetraData.
- Creation of new objects and the DOD plans required to support those objects.
Hosting Services
TetraData Solutions can be managed in your local environment or hosted through TetraData’s world-class Hosting Services. With TetraData’s Hosting Services, you enjoy the benefits of the TetraData Analysis Suite through a secure website provided by Follett Software Company. We operate with one of the world’s largest dedicated web hosting providers, which hosts more than 20,000 Windows and Linux web servers. This state-of-the-art facility offers 100,000 square feet of web hosting space and features redundant uninterrupted power supply (UPS), generator backup and smoke detection/fire protection systems.
