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IASA interviewed four school superintendents/administrators to learn more about the launch of their dashboard. Rick Schmitt, superintendent of Sandwich CUSD #430, used the launch of their district dashboard as a way to market the school district to the area community. Their dashboard is prominently displayed as a click-through link on the district website . I was very impressed with the framework of the IASA/ECRA dashboard and the ability to plug in pictures of our school and attach videos to it in order to promote our school district to build upon our success story.

#ILSchoolStories

IASA and ECRA Launch www.ILSchoolStories.com website Site Features Links to School District Strategic Dashboards

IASA in cooperation with ECRA has launched a new website to help share the word about important work being done in public school districts at www.ILSchoolStories.com . The site allows you to see other live school district Strategic Dashboards that have chosen to opt-into the site. It also is a central-hub for sharing successes about Illinois schools with an active Twitter feed that uses the hashtag #ILSchoolStories. If you have not already gone public with your dashboard, here is another reason to finish up the final preparation on getting your dashboard live to be included in this newly launched site. A new toggle-on button on the Strategic Dashboard settings page allows users to add their district’s public dashboard to the www.ILSchoolStories.com website. This is a great location to see other dashboards and learn from each other to see best practices of the Strategic Dashboard.

“I was very impressed with the framework of the IASA/ECRA dashboard and the ability to plug in pictures of our school and attach videos to it in order to promote our school district to build upon our success story,” said Schmitt. “There are a lot of success stories that simply don’t get mentioned in the Illinois School Report Card and we wanted to share that information with our community.”

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