The DaSy Center provides resources to help families understand why data are important. We want to help families ask good questions about data. We want to help families partner with program staff to set directions based on data.
Information about data systems
The Story of Data: An Early Childhood TaleThis short IDEA Data Center (IDC) video is an engaging animated story that shows how data inform early intervention decisions for a baby with disabilities. The Story of Data: An ...Read more- The Importance of High-Quality IDEA DataThe Importance of High-Quality IDEA Data features state early intervention and special education professionals and OSEP staff describing how high-quality IDEA data help ensure that children with disabilities receive the ...Read more
What is an Early Childhood Integrated Data System?This 2016 short video from the SLDS Grant Program describes early childhood integrated data systems (ECIDSs) that collect, integrates, maintain, store, and report information from multiple early childhood programs within ...Read more
Informing Families about OutcomesThis webpage offers key components of informing families about child and family outcomes. Published by: The Early Childhood Technical Assistance (ECTA)Center Informing Families about Outcomes WebpageRead more
Early Childhood Outcomes: Who, What, Why, and HowThis brochure is designed to provide families with information about child outcomes and how the data collected on child outcomes are used by the Part C program. The publication links ...Read more
How families are included in data system processes
YOUR Early Intervention Family SurveyThis short video from the Connecticut Birth to Three System can help parents and service coordinators with the family survey that is sent out to families in Birth to Three ...Read more
Best Practices in Family and Community Engagement video seriesThis video series is designed to support program efforts toward systemic and integrated engagement. Rooted in the Office of Head Start (OHS) Parent, Family, and Community Engagement (PFCE) Framework, the ...Read more
A National Picture of Part C Indicator 4 Family DataPlease join ECTA Center on Tuesday, December 13 at 3 pm EST to learn about the national FFY 2014-2015 Part C Indicator 4 family data. Staff will present trends ...Read more
ParentIn this video from the 2016 Improving Data, Improving Outcomesclosing plenary session, Early Intervention parent Tony Chambers and program staff member Peaches Lott discuss how child and program data is ...Read more
Tools to assess knowledge and level of agreementA part of the IDEA Partnership’s Creating Agreement Collection, these documents provide the shared agreements across stakeholders groups about Creating Agreement that address the technical side of Creating Agreement. ...Read more
How data is shared with families
Joining Together to Create a Bold Vision for Next-Generation Family Engagement: Engaging Families to Transform EducationThis 2018 paper from the Global Family Research Project highlights the critical role of family engagement in creating equitable learning pathways for children, and offers promising high-leverage areas that can ...Read more
Education Data 101: A Briefing Book for PolicymakersThis downloadable December 2017 booklet from the Data Quality Campaign is meant to bring policymakers up to speed on major topics they need to know about. Of the eight topics ...Read more- How Data Empowers ParentsThis 2016 resource from the Data Quality Campaign offers both an infographic and a short video with examples of ways that access to data that can help parents participate effectively ...Read more
Student Privacy 101: FERPA for Parents and StudentsThis 2013 short video highlights the key points of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) for parents and students. Student Privacy 101 (Video)Read more- FERPA General Guidance for ParentsThis guidance provides parents with general information about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The document is a compilation and update of various letters and guidance documents previously ...Read more