Rosedale Union School District
We recently had an opportunity to talk with John Mendiburu and Sue Lemon from Rosedale Union School District regarding their plan developed to support the rollout of the KIDS platform during Pilot participation.
Rosedale Rollout Foundations:
- This is not something new, but is a platform that enhances and/or supports the current system.
- Ensure there are district data comparisons to the current student data system to verify they are aligned.
- Start with the administrative team, introducing the platform to them on a regular basis, and get their feedback throughout.
The decision to start with the Administrative team is based on the premise that successful implementation will rely on the Principal’s comfort level in leading their teams with this work, which will require each to develop expertise with the platform and its capability. When the Administrative team feels comfortable and confident in using the platform, decisions on how the KIDS will be specifically used district-wide and next steps in the rollout plan will be made. It is anticipated that there will be teacher level view by the fall of 2020.
The initial rollout to the Rosedale Administrative team was launched on October 1, 2019- with the KIDS support team present to provide assistance, as needed. Sue and her instructional leadership team designed a KIDS platform scavenger hunt that provided opportunities for every administrator to explore the Essentials module, reviewing information at a district and site level. The district leadership has continued to support Administrators’ understanding and use of the KIDS platform by building time into every Administrative meeting to continue to highlight areas of the platform together, using the following protocol:
1. Review the specific data highlighted, asking the questions- What do you notice?
- What can we do about it?
An example: In the last Administrative team meeting, district and school attendance data was reviewed, using the tools in the KIDS platform and the protocol-
It was noticed that across the district, and in each school, attendance was down on Halloween, this information was used to brainstorm potential proactive solutions as a team to address this issue in the future.
A Lesson Learned
“If we are going to be data driven, then we are going to have to be more specific.”
Sue described how working through this process has provided their team insights regarding the impact of how data is initially entered into the system.
An example: It was noticed when reviewing discipline data that there seems to be a default time for an event when it is recorded into the system. However, it was realized that the data needs to be more specific and in order to truly track this information effectively, the actual time of event will need to be recorded. So, new procedures will be put in place to support that need.
KIDS Features the Rosedale team values:
>New customized dashboard landing page- very user friendly and useful!
>Access to Instantaneous data (with nightly updates)
>A user-friendly platform
- Click and drill down immediately
- Information readily available, easy to understand & navigate
- Discipline
- Inter-district transfers
- Community/School trends
The Rosedale team is looking forward to the introduction of the Digital Cume folder feature on the KIDS platform- the potential for receiving information (attendance, academic) about incoming students immediately is really exciting. They are excited to see what can be done in the EWIS and other modules and look forward to participating in the next round of implementation training the second week of December.
Kern High School District
Thank you to Kern High School District and Cameron Guinn, KCSOS Management Analyst, for sharing the following implementation highlight:
The Kern High School District (KHSD) has championed a district-wide initiative to increase student engagement and reduce the need for student suspension and expulsion through a comprehensive rollout of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS). The focus and commitment to student safety, staff training, and analysis of stakeholder feedback around the change to more positive structures for students is very evident in KHSD’s LCAP, but the real proof of their effort comes from the data.
The KIDS platform has allowed for real-time data aggregation of data for nearly 40,000 students at all KHSD 18 school sites quickly and easily saving time and effort for the analysis.
The 3 year trend of weekly behavior incidences across the district reinforce the systemic progress that has been made in the implementation of PBIS year over year. Only a data platform like KIDS can offer analytics at this scale, and as more districts onboard, the possibilities for tracking positive longitudinal trends for Kern county students grows exponentially.
