cmERDC News and Events

March 30th - 2006

Nationally Published CoSN Article
On Schools Using Data Driven Decision Making
Features cmERDC Staff and School Districts!

A national article published by the Consortium for School Networking, or CoSN, prominently featured several cmERDC customers and staff that have been active in developing and implementing solutions that allow educators to put data to work in a process known as "Data Driven Decision Making."

A recent CoSN article co-authored by Karen Greenwood Henke and Todd Pierson entitled "You've Got the Data... Now What?" described the tools, experiences, and strategies being developed to implement data driven decision making in K-12 education. Minnesota schools featured prominently in the article include Minneapolis and Anoka-Hennepin Public School districts. The article interviews and shares numerous practical data driven decision making strategies from Anoka-Hennepin Asst. Principal - Vicki Tjaden and cmERDC staff member (and data warehouse project mangager) Jan Brunell. The article was also co-authored by Todd Pierson, of Minneapolis Public Schools.

This article is an excellent summary for any school district or school administrator who wants a well-organized, concise summary of the most important practices necessary for any school considering implementing data driven decision making. It also confirms that cmERDC and its member schools are taking a nationally recongnized leadership role in implementing this new decision making process by providing powerful data analysis applications for schools and the critical staff training that makes the new tools effective!

To see an Executive Summary of the article - Click Here for PDF Summary...

For web information on the cmERDC Data Warehouse Solution - Click Here

If you have heard about cmERDC's exciting new data analysis applications from Sagebrush and would like to see the full power of the product in action please call us and ask to schedule a data warehouse demonstration! cmERDC will send out experienced, knowledgeable staff who can answer your questions and let you see the power and benefits of using modern data analysis applications with your school's progress data.

Contact us at:
Phone: (888) 568-9176 Ask for... Jan Brunell

E-mail: jbrunell@erdc.k12.mn.us