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For several years, North Clackamas School District has been reviewing the key performance indicators that are linked to our strategic plan—which included a focus to assess the whole child through an equity lens, rather than solely by academic factors and achievement. Equity is a critical component of our district’s plan and focus, and we feel strongly that one way to achieve equity is to utilize data to pave the way to meeting this critical goal. 

However, we didn’t have a centralized data dashboard, which left a huge hole in the work we were undertaking. Like so many other districts, the only information we had was either state-level data or whatever we could pull out of our student information system in a raw form. That meant we spent a lot of time taking that raw information and trying to make sense of it, grouping students in different ways to produce reports that allowed us to measure progress against our KPIs. 

When additional funding became available from the state, we began exploring different tools that would allow us to see data sets from both instructional and non-instructional measurements side-by-side. We wanted to be able to measure student academic progress as well as their growing abilities to manage emotions, achieve goals, and grow relationships. 

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