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🌟 Project Spotlight 🌟  Since 2023, Safal Partners has served the U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with MDB, Inc., to deliver the National Forum on Education Statistics and STATS-DC Data Conference. The Forum brings together education leaders to tackle our most pressing challenges: 📚Resource optimization  💡Improving data quality  📊Increasing utility of data  💵Navigating data burden concerns Through the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)'s data, we’re empowering federal, state, and local agencies to make informed decisions that shape America’s educational future. The STATS-DC Conference enables practitioners to:  ✔️ Share innovative approaches  ✔️ Access essential training  ✔️ Stay current with federal initiatives  ✔️ Network with peers in an annual assembly of practitioners  We are honored to support this crucial platform for advancing education systems nationwide. MDB, Inc. #EducationData #EdPolicy #DataDrivenDecisions 

The National Accreditation Commission (NAC) and Program on Skills, Credentials, and Workforce Policy at GWU: Pioneering AI-driven accreditation for noncredit workforce programs – leveraging data insights, cross-sector collaboration, and innovative technology (AiHub) to enhance program, course, and content quality, labor market alignment, and educational outcomes. https://lnkd.in/edVWhxFz #recognizingnoncreditprograms

MDB is proud to support the upcoming virtual National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Data Users Conference (DUC) in collaboration with Safal Partners! From Feb. 11 to Feb. 13, 2025, this online event will bring participants together ✳️ to learn from research that uses NCES’ datasets and ✳️ to discuss strategies for data analysis, linking, visualization, and reporting. The conference, themed “Responding to the ‘New Normal,’” will highlight research that addresses difficult district, state, and federal education decisions. Ultimately, the event will help researchers learn more about education topics that currently matter most to policymakers. For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/eububijG. Registration for the NCES DUC opens soon!   #EducationData #EdPolicy #DoingWellByDoingGood

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💡 How can we make sure evidence meets the needs of schools, early years settings, and colleges?  🔍 Bridging evidence and practice can be challenging. For evidence to inform positive changes to teaching and learning in real life settings, it must meet practitioners’ needs.  This is why we need to constantly engage with experts of practice.   As a starter, we gather insights from practitioners by:  - Checking the temperature in settings through termly reference groups,  - Refining resources according to their feedback, and   - Identifying areas of teaching that could be better supported by evidence-informed resources. 📖 We also conduct interviews and focus groups to understand, empathise with and learn from practitioners.  This helps us to answer questions such as the most appropriate language for describing teaching and learning approaches, and what format evidence is best communicated through. 🤔 One area in which we’ve learned a lot from practitioners has been in their access and use of evidence-informed resources. Some people told us about how they struggle to differentiate sources according to their reliability.  In response we:   - Published a guide to using research evidence.   - Plan to conduct a funding round that will investigate how to best support school leaders in accessing and using research evidence.  💬 We’re always looking to hear from practitioners across England! Keep an eye out for our annual sector survey that will go out in about two weeks’ time.  Or express your interest via an email to SEG@eefoundation.org.uk. 

📢 Funding approval for qualifications that overlap with T Levels The ‘Public funding update’ list confirms the public funding status for the next academic year for the 16 to 19 qualifications that overlap with T Levels in waves 1 and 2. This follows the Secretary of State’s announcement that she will conduct a short, focused review of the post-16 qualification reforms at level 3 and below. This is due to report in December 2024 Of the 134 qualifications on the list: - 95 will have 16 to 19 public funding extended to 31 July 2025 (or before, if the awarding organisation decides) - 39 are no longer available for delivery, so will not be publicly funded in 2024 to 2025 #pauseandreview #funding #level3 #tlevels #technicaleducation #16to19 https://lnkd.in/ejTmZDX8

🌟 New CPD Course Available: User-Driven Design in Health and Social Care – Supporting Neurodiversity 🌟 We are excited to announce a new, free CPD course available on the FEDIP Hub: User-Driven Design in Health and Social Care – Supporting Neurodiversity. Adapted from Edinburgh University’s MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care, this course delves into the principles of user-driven design (UDD) for neurodiverse populations in health and social care. Course Highlights: Understand key principles of user-driven design for health and social care. Learn methodologies for user research and design evaluation. Explore the role of ethics in user-driven design and its impact on neurodiverse workplaces. Reflect on the application of UDD in your professional context. Start the course > https://lnkd.in/eZksMpXF #CPD #HealthInformatics #Neurodiversity #UserDrivenDesign #HealthEquity #FEDIP #ProfessionalDevelopment

This is great news! We are excited to learn that the bipartisan New Essential Education Discoveries (NEED) Act has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX). If passed, the NEED Act would authorize a National Center for Advanced Development in Education (NCADE) to advance informed-risk high-reward, education R&D projects. It would support interdisciplinary teams to solve big, complex challenges in education through new research, rapid testing, and the iterative development of new tools and approaches. The NEED Act would also strengthen and modernize Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems, with good data as the backbone of good R&D. #edresearch  #eddata #education

As an IT admin, putting out fires and struggling to justify the upgrades to avoid them can be a frustrating cycle. Without evidence & data, it’s hard to get support for decisions. This is why I built the MTIS survey. It gives IT teams the data to stay ahead—identify gaps before they become problems, know where resources are needed most, and back your decisions and requests to leadership with solid evidence. Insights include, benchmarking against similar schools, highlighting where resources and improvements are needed and reinforce where you're excelling. It’s free, open to all Australian schools and only takes a few minutes to get setup and send out to your teachers. Backed by CoET (within the Department of Education Victoria), with privacy assured – no school data shared or personal data collected. ✅ Tailored for Australian schools 📊 Clear, instant reports with growth and comparative data ⏳ Quick 3-min survey Survey window for all schools closes soon (Nov 8th) - Learn more and sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gspY9TJ3