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 Tale
This 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 Early Childhood Tale also illustrates how secure data are combined ...
Read moreThe Importance of High-Quality IDEA Data
The 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 early intervention and special education services to which they are ...
Read moreWhat 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 a state.
What is an Early Childhood Integrated Data System? (Video)
Read moreHow families are included in data system processes
YOUR Early Intervention Family Survey
This 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 for at least 6 months as of Feb 1st each ...
Read moreBest Practices in Family and Community Engagement video series
This 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 videos highlight examples of innovative approaches to engagement that foster ...
Read moreA National Picture of Part C Indicator 4 Family Data
Please 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 in the data as well as overviews of states’ survey ...
Read moreHow data is shared with families
This 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 be transformative for children, families, schools, and communities. Data sharing ...
Read moreEducation Data 101: A Briefing Book for Policymakers
This 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 addressed, four are relevant to early childhood data systems:
State longitudinal ...
Read moreThis 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 in their child’s education. Examples of data sharing both ...
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