Tennessee Department of Education
Empowering Strategic Planning with Data – Tennessee Department of Education
Client Background
The Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) is responsible for overseeing public education in the state, serving hundreds of school districts and thousands of schools. With a mission to support schools in delivering high-quality education, TDOE collects vast amounts of data on school and district performance. However, despite the availability of data, school and district administrators struggled to access and use it effectively for strategic planning.
Problem
TDOE needed to make their data more accessible and actionable for administrators. The data, which came in diverse formats and files, lacked consistency, making it difficult to compare issues across districts. For example, a school may struggle with math performance scores, but doesn’t have a good way see this data and compare their results to other similar schools. School district leaders were largely in the dark without a unified view of the data and found it difficult to use data in their strategic planning processes.
Solution
To solve this challenge, TDOE collaborated with Juice to create the School Improvement Planning (SIP) solution. TDOE relied on the Juice’s team to design and streamline the flow of performance dashboards to ensure maximum usability. The data was transformed from complex spreadsheets into intuitive, easy-to-read data stories that administrators could explore with ease.
Key elements of the solution included:
Intuitive Data Stories: Transforming rows and columns of data into visually compelling stories that could be explored top to bottom.
Benchmarking and Comparison: Each school’s performance was benchmarked against the state’s overall average and their peers, providing valuable context.
Strategic Planning Insights: Administrators could now easily compare issues, such as academic performance or staff retention, across districts to inform their strategic decisions.
Impact
The SIP solution significantly increased data engagement among school and district administrators. Schools and districts could now read, understand, and discuss their data as stories, leading to data-informed decision-making in their strategic planning processes. What was once an overwhelming mass of data was now a tool for action.
Data-Driven Strategic Planning: For the first time, school districts had the tools they needed to incorporate data into their strategic planning processes, improving their ability to address challenges and implement best practices.
New Level of Engagement: Administrators gained a deeper understanding of their data, enabling discussions around performance and planning that had not been possible before.
Client Feedback
“Juice has been far better than we imagined. School superintendents understand the data and conduct the strategic planning they’ve been asked to do, but weren't able to do before." — Nate Schwartz, Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Tennessee Department of Education
“Juice has been far better than we imagined. School superintendents understand the data and conduct the strategic planning they’ve been asked to do, but weren’t able to do before.”
Conclusion
The partnership between TDOE and Juice empowered school and district administrators to engage with their data in meaningful ways. By transforming complex data into easy-to-understand stories, TDOE has enabled data-driven strategic planning across districts, helping schools implement best practices and improve student outcomes.
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