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School Districts Go Livewith Strategic Dashboards To Tell Their Story By Mary Schaefer IASA Director of Communications & Marketing IASA’s vision to provide Illinois school districts an infrastructure to tell their story and define their success is quickly becoming a reality. Over 800 Illinois school districts now have the IASA/ECRA Strategic Dashboard and over 1,000 school administrators across the state have been trained on how to best tell their story via the dashboard. As a result of the statewide trainings, IASA and ECRA have received a tremendous amount of feedback for how to enhance the Strategic NewVersion of Dashboard Supports Added Features

features being added. A feature commonly requested by superintendents was to be able to include media items as part of a strategic indicator. The newly released version of the dashboard now supports rich text and inclusion of images, files, videos and other digital assets to more comprehensively and effectively communicate the importance of a strategic indicator. Also, a chart customization feature has been added to create the exact visual you desire. You can now edit nearly all chart properties and can duplicate charts for reuse. Furthermore, the district name no longer covers your banner art, and you can edit how your district name appears.

The most desired feature voiced by superintendents was the ability to share dashboards and learn from each other. As a result, IASA and ECRA launched www.ilschoolstories.com to provide superintendents a single location to publish and browse Illinois school district dashboards.

...now supports inclusion of images, files, videos and other digital assets to more comprehensively and effectively communicate the importance of a strategic indicator.

Dashboard. According to Dr. John Gatta, Chief Executive Officer of the ECRA Group, the dashboard is constantly evolving and improving with new elements and

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