Using SIF in a District: How You Can Get a Student Signed Up and Ready in All Using SIF in a District: How You Can Get a Student Signed Up and Ready in All Your Systems Within SecondsYour Systems Within Seconds

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Who am I?Who am I?•James Yap

Masters in Deaf Education-Gallaudet U.

Masters in Ed. Technology- U. of Hartford

Masters in Administration-Fordham U.

Taught at American School For the Deaf

Educational Consultant

Currently Director of Instructional Technology and Data Management for Ramapo C.S.D

Board Member of DATAG and CASTLE.

Blogger of LeaderTalk

Runner up in SIF Excellence Awards 2010

Father, Husband, Twin Brother and Former D1 Lacrosse Goalie

The Vision

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Curriculum Mapping

IEP Professional Development

Library System

Active Directory

Student Data

Computer Login

Salary and Benefits

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Future Systems•NWEA

•Read 180•Learning.com•Spectrum K-

12Upgrades

•Transfinder•IEP Direct

Marketing Reasons For Vendors to Adopt SIF

Marketing Reasons For Vendors to Adopt SIF

Competitive edge over competitors

SIF Logo on their marketing material

Easier to implement systems

More data can be easily imported so the vendor can give more reports to the end user

Continue to talk to vendors about improvements and reporting

Continue to talk to vendors about improvements and reporting

Have them provide you a dashboard (monitoring).

Are they giving you reports to help with 3DM and state reporting?

Can they move to two way?

How are they looking at SIF Spec 3.0?

How active are they in the SIF community?

No endless imports and exports

No blame game between vendor and end user about accuracy of data

Can feel confident when querying data that it is accurate and up to date

Data IntegrityData Integrity

Helpful Hints for ImplementationHelpful Hints for Implementation

Listen on Support calls

Ask questions about what they are doing

Take control during the GoToMeeting

Clear time to learn, will be paid back later

Understand what is in each object

Make it a learning experience!

Map Your DataMap Your Data

What goes with what?

What are you sending where?

Get help from vendor?

Great help if you decide to switch vendors

Common Core VisionCommon Core VisionDigital Resources Curriculum Mapping

RTI Vision RTI VisionState Assessment Data

Local Assessment Data

Special Ed. Data and Other Services

Local Data Warehouse

PBIS Data

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ResultResultCurriculum maps that are full of resources

ResultsResultsSupport provided for LEAs in learner mobility, digitally and physically

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ResultsResultsDigital content and assessments would be automatically adjusted

ResultsResultsLearning and instructional data would be made available real time to the full Professional Learning Community

ResultsResultsTime spent integrating various instructional applications would be significantly reduced

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So what is in the New SIF 2.6

So what is in the New SIF 2.6

• Assessment Re-design

• Response to Intervention

• Staff Evaluation

• Staff Section Assignment (Teacher of Record)

And what is coming..And what is coming..

• Special Education Re-design

• Teacher Attendance

• Redesign of the Infrastructure