Students, teachers, and administrators are all involved in the use of appropriate information to inform instructional decision-making. This report will highlight  the move toward a state system - PIMS (The Pennsylvania Information Management System), the move toward a new data system for Response to Intervention (RTI), and the local use of data.

Summary:

PIMS

J.R Deer, the district’s applications specialist, took the lead role for the district’s implementation of PIMS (PIMS09.pdf.) Included in this process were steps to create a SecureID, share key student and personnel information, and to develop a better data-collection system. Highlights included:

  1. •October/November 2008 - submission of first round of PIMS data (see chart below)

  2. •December 2008- submission of second round (see chart below)

  3. •January 2009 - submission of third round (see chart below)

  4. •March 2009 - submission of fourth round (see chart below)

  5. •May 2009 - submission of fifth round (see chart below)


Next Steps:

  1. •Summer 2009 - submission of schedule, student records, staff records, school enrollment, attendance, course information, district annual facts, special education, child accounting.




RTI: Centris-Group

Ron Korenich, the coordinator for Elementary Education, initiated an investigation of RTI-Direct, a data tool from a New York firm, the Centris Group.

  1. •March 2009 - the Centris Group gave a presentation to the district coordinators, including both the RTI solution and the Special Education module. The district committee responded favorably to the solutions and recommended that the school district purchase the RTI solution for 2009-2010 and consider piloting a Pennsylvania version of the special education module in 2009-2010 with an implementation of the special education module in 2010-2011.

  2. •May 2009 - the district administrative team (Ron Korenich, Norton Gusky, J.R. Deer, Alicia Hutchings) began training on the RTI-Direct solution.

  3. •May 2009 - school demographic data is entered into RTI Direct for use in 2009-2010 school year.


Next Steps:

  1. •August 2009 - district building principals will receive training on the RTI-Direct solution.

  2. •August 2009 - K-5 teachers involved in the RTI process will receive training and begin to use the system.


Survey 2009 Results: Help Desk

For the past nine (9) years the Fox Chapel Area School District has surveyed the staff. The responses from this year's Technology Survey provided good news on many fronts.  This year the changes in the Help Desk system improved the speed addressing issues, while the effectiveness of resolving issues, effectiveness and overall rating for the help desk system continued at a very satisfactory level.


Next Steps:

The school district will continue to work with a local vendor, Questeq, to provide a full-time technician that will work from the high school and help to support the elementary sites.