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01/28/2018 by Sean Brady

How the NYS Ed Department distorts school performance

The New York State Education Department’s accountability system distorts school performance in absurd ways and with perverse results.

Filed Under: K-12 education Tagged With: benchmarking, dropout rate, education, graduation rate, school accountability

06/05/2015 by Sean Brady

SchoolBenchmarker™, an innovative school comparison tool

SchoolBenchmarker? is an innovative school comparison tool. It allows any school in New York State to find similar schools performing at higher levels. Prism has recently updated SchoolBenchmarker? for Cornell’s New York State Center for Rural Schools.

Filed Under: Agile software Tagged With: agile development, Apps, cohort tracking, dropout, dropout rate, graduation rate, innovation, iPad, iPhone

02/26/2015 by Sean Brady

Strategic planning has big payoff for school districts

School superintendents are faced with difficult resource allocation decisions. Where will I get the biggest bump in performance per dollar spent, they wonder. In this post are examples from four very different school districts. Impressive performance gains at each demonstrate why wise school superintendents invest in strategic planning as part of their continuous improvement efforts.

Filed Under: K-12 education Tagged With: decision-making, dropout, dropout rate, graduation rate

03/06/2013 by Sean Brady

Binghamton now using CohortTracker™?

The Binghamton City School District is now using CohortTracker™. CohortTracker™ is an early warning system that allows school districts to track the real-time status of each active high school cohort (and every sub-group and individual within that cohort) vis-a-vis graduation – from the moment of their enrollment. School district personnel using CohortTracker™ always have at their […]

Filed Under: Agile software Tagged With: cohort tracking, dropout early warning system, dropout prevention, dropout rate, graduation rate

02/19/2013 by Sean Brady

The critical importance of target setting

In a recent local appearance, Olympic gold medalist Shannon Miller touched on the critical importance of target setting: “Are you training for a 5K? Set your goals. Are you working toward a promotion? Set your goals. Battling cancer? Set your goals, see them through.” At Prism, we couldn’t agree more: goal setting must be a […]

Filed Under: K-12 education Tagged With: dropout, dropout prevention, dropout rate, education, graduation rate, implementation, target setting

06/26/2012 by Sean Brady

Benchmarking as an improvement tool

Race to the Top has school improvement teams working especially hard to improve performance. With the the New York State Center for Rural School’s official release of the innovative SchoolBenchmarker™ it’s a perfect time to ask: How can I use benchmarking as a school improvement tool? Read on at http://prismdecision.com/benchmarking-as-an-improvement-tool

Filed Under: K-12 education Tagged With: Apps, benchmarking, dropout prevention, dropout rate, education, graduation rate, iPad, iPhone, Race to the Top, school accountability

06/11/2012 by Sean Brady

CohortTracker™ deployed by the Central New York Regional Information Center

The Central New York Regional Information Center (CNYRIC) has now deployed CohortTracker™ to help their schools identify students who are at risk of not graduating.

CNYRIC serves 50 school districts and four Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) across eight counties in the central region of New York State.

Filed Under: Agile software Tagged With: agile development, Apps, cohort tracking, data, dropout, dropout prevention, dropout rate, education, graduation rate, Race to the Top, school accountability

01/30/2012 by Sean Brady

NoDropouts.org features CohortTracker™

In a post titled Early identification getting easier ? but must come with compassion and hard work, the folks at NoDropouts.org capture the essence of CohortTracker™ and the roll it plays in promoting successful, on-time graduation.

Filed Under: Agile software, K-12 education Tagged With: agile development, cohort tracking, data, dropout, dropout early warning system, dropout prevention, dropout rate, education, graduation rate, Race to the Top, school accountability

01/17/2012 by Sean Brady

CohortTracker™ early warning system goes live in New York

The Greater Tier Southern Tier Board of Cooperative Education Services (GST BOCES) has implemented CohortTracker™ in fourteen school districts in its region. CohortTracker™ is an early warning web application that allows schools to monitor students’ progress towards graduation. Educators can identify students getting off track and intervene before it is too late. The app is licensed by Prism Decision Systems, LLC and will be available to other BOCES Regional Information Centers across the state before the end of this school year

Filed Under: Agile software, News Tagged With: agile development, Apps, cohort tracking, dropout, dropout early warning system, dropout prevention, dropout rate, graduation rate, Race to the Top

01/04/2012 by Sean Brady

Screen cast introduces CohortTracker™

View our screen cast introducing CohortTracker™, an early warning web application that allows schools to monitor students? progress towards graduation. Educators can identify students getting off track and intervene before it is too late. The app is designed to be a general-purpose student achievement tracking system that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of any education department.

Filed Under: Agile software Tagged With: agile development, Apps, cohort tracking, dropout early warning system, dropout prevention, dropout rate, education, graduation rate, nclb, Race to the Top

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prismdecision.com/nysed-disto… @NYSEDNews #ESSA update is a build out of the legacy #nclb system, retaining and amplifying its worst attributes. It identifies solid and even high performing districts among the bottom performers statewide. @sarbetter @nyschoolboards @NYSchoolSupts twitter.com/prismdecision/…

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Thanks to @MikeHynes5 for having the courage to savage @NYSEDNews accountability system that unfairly distorts school performance in absurd ways and with perverse results. @sarbetter @NYSchoolSupts @nyschoolboards twitter.com/MikeHynes5/sta…

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At the Syracuse airport, a door alarm has been going off for the last 25 minutes. Welcome to the world of travel during the #trumpshutdown

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