Agenda
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 starting at 9:00 am
Topics:
New DQN Website
Ward of State
Making Revisions to Prior Year Data
Excel Tips and Tricks for the PIMS Administrator
DQN Networking Activity: Building/Sustaining a Data Culture with Local Assessments
Please submit questions using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/November2021DQN-Q
Target Audience: PIMS Administrators, Child Accounting Specialists, Data Teams, and Data Specialists
9:00 am | Webinar Begins
Introduction and Welcome
Presenter: DQN PoCs
New DQN Website
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the new DQN website.
Presenter: Shane Lentz, IU23, Program Administrator – Data Services and Analytics
Handouts: N/A
Ward of State
Explanation of the process for Educational Entities requesting assistance of the School Services Office to make an official determination on the student’s School District of Residence. In lieu of finding a school district responsible for the student’s tuition fees, making the determination of the student status to be Ward of State.
Presenters: Fianne van Schaaik, PDE, Basic Education Associate / Lori Sieber, PDE, Child Accounting Manager
Handouts: document PDE PowerPoint WoS DQN 11.17.21 (537 KB) | pdf Final WoS Process LEA 5.12.2020 (139 KB)
10 Minutes | Break
Making Revisions to Prior Year Data
This presentation will provide instructions on how to make manual changes to Student Calendar Fact and School Calendar data for school years that are no longer available for revisions in PIMS.
Presenters: Lori Sieber, PDE, Child Accounting Manager
Handouts: No handouts
Excel Tips and Tricks for the PIMS Administrator
This presentation will cover some basic tips for formatting and verifying data in Excel. Learn some useful tricks that can make working with your PIMS templates a little easier.
Presenters: Kathleen Thompson, IU25, IT Applications Coordinator
Handouts: pdf Excel Tips and Tricks for the PIMS Administrator (1.17 MB)
5 Minutes | Transition to the Networking Activity
Building/Sustaining a Data Culture with Local Assessments
This networking activity seeks to share information with the DQN members connecting the work of data reporting to Accelerated Learning and local assessment subtest collection from spring/summer 2021. Members will engage in an inclusive opening, learn more about the AL toolkit, review a sample redacted LEA local assessment report, and engage in meaningful conversation with everyone in their breakout groups.
Special Instructions: Participants will need to exit the PDE presentation link and join the Networking Activity link. Once connected to the Networking Activity link, participants will choose breakout rooms. If possible, please make sure your version of Zoom is updated so you can select breakout rooms to join. Instructions for updating Zoom can be found here.
Handouts: pdf November 2021 DQN Networking Activity (4.45 MB)
Please complete the feedback form for November's DQN meeting using the following link: https://tinyurl.com/November2021DQN-F
Thank you for your support of PDE's Data Quality Initiatives!