Vermont Data Consortium

 

What is the VDC?

The Vermont Data Consortium (VDC) is a collaborative of supervisory unions/districts partnering with the Vermont Department of Education (DOE) and TetraData Corporation to deliver an Education Data Warehouse (EDW), data analysis tools and training for data-driven decision making for its members. The function of the VDC is to ensure that Vermont supervisory unions/districts have cost-effective, timely and accurate student and educational data available to address continuous school improvement as well as state and federal accountability and reporting requirements.

Click here for a VDC Brochure, a presentation about the VDC Organization and a VDC membership list.

What is the EDW?

The Education Data Warehouse (EDW) is a large, consolidated database with a set of analysis tools that allow users to access data from the system through a secure, internet connection. The EDW was built as a collaborative project between the VDC, the Vermont Department of Education (DOE) and the TetraData Corporation and first went online in October 2005. The EDW contains data submitted by Vermont schools to the DOE through the Student Census, Child Count, State Assessment system, Educator Census, Financial Stat report and other data collections. The EDW is the one place that all this data is consolidated in one system. In addition, the EDW allows VDC members to add additional local data such as student schedules, course grades, local demographics and local assessments to the system and relate it to the DOE data. Click here for a presentation about the EDW Analysis Suite (4MB).

To learn more about the VDC and the EDW, visit the FAQ page.

What's New?

VDC Annual Meeting and 2010-2011 Membership Fees

The VDC Annual Meeting and Board Meeting was held Wednesday, May 18 th from 9-12 at the VDC-LADPA Conference Room at 250 Main Street, Montpelier. Meeting minutes are available here. The VDC Board adopted a new membership structure for the 2011-2012 school year:

• Level 1 (formerly ‘basic’) = $1,750
  o 5 EDW User Accounts for any staff in the SU/SD that the superintendent approves
  o Training for each EDW user account if needed
  o Support throughout the school year for each user account (typically via phone & email)
  o NECAP roster and individual reports and enrollment reports based on EDW data
  o Informally learn from, network and collaborate with key technology, data and curriculum staff from other VDC SUs/SDs and the DOE

• Level 2 (new level) = $3,000
  o All benefits of Level 1 plus the number of user accounts is increased to 8.
  o PLUS - Creation and/or maintenance of a Local Data Warehouse based on the Common District Model and linked to the state warehouse by the state student id# with 5 days of VDC staff time (up to 2 on-site) to work on creation/maintenance of the local warehouse and/or facilitate customized trainings/workshops.
  o Note – This level is intended for VDC SUs that want to continue/start doing local data warehouse loads but don’t anticipate fully utilizing VDC services to load numerous local assessments, do custom report development or conduct multiple workshops.

• Level 3 (formerly ‘premium’) = $5,000
  o All the benefits of Level 2 plus the number user accounts is increased to “unlimited” and the number of days of VDC staff time to work on the local warehouse is increased to 8 (up to 5 on-site).
  o Note – This level is intended for VDC SUs that want to continue/start doing local data warehouse loads and do anticipate fully utilizing VDC services to load numerous local assessments, do custom report development and/or conduct multiple workshops with staff.

VDC Board announces Board of Directors for 2011-2012

We welcome our new board of directors for the 2011-2012 school year!

Co-Chairs: Bob Owens - Technology Director, Addison Northwest SU Brucie Donahue - Educational Technologist, Washington South SU Secretary & Treasurer: Bill Kimball - Director of Curriculum & Instruction, Orleans Southwest SU At-large: Nancy Cornell - Curriculum Director, Addison Northeast SU Dan French - Superintendent, Bennington-Rutland SU Carol Freeman - Director of Curriculum & Instruction, Washington Central SU Chris Kibbe - Assistant Superintendent, Windham Northest SU Dean Pallozzi - Director of Data Management, Lamoille South SU Susan Sheets - SIS Manager, Addison Central SU