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Jeff Fetcho, superintendent of Hamilton County CUSD #10, had conversations with various faculty and staff in every building and narrowed down highlights for student success in the construction of his district dashboard. He adds the district’s technology/curriculum staff person was instrumental in helping to build the framework and promoting the dashboard’s launch on Twitter and Facebook. The district serves a student population of 1,299. Fetcho was one of the early adopters in creating and launching his district dashboard site and he sees it as a building block to further reporting successful achievements for the district. He plans to review the dashboard at monthly administrator meetings and always have it on the agenda for discussion purposes and for updates to the site. The dashboard is accessible from the district website . “For the first time we have a school safety officer so we definitely wanted to mention that within the dashboard,” says Fetcho.

dashboard,” said Fetcho. He was vocal in encouraging other superintendents to begin work on their dashboard site at Egyptian IASA regional meetings. Dr. Jill Griffin, superintendent of Bethalto CUSD #8, and Kelly McClain Director of Curriculum Instruction and Assessment at Bethalto, both attended the IASA/ECRA dashboard training and were equally impressed by the various components of the dashboard. The district serves 2,500 students in PreK-12 grades. After reviewing some dashboards being compiled by other districts, they executed a strategy for all the elements they wanted to see on their district dashboard . Their priority was to regularly communicate with stakeholders the district’s vision, mission statement and goals and to make sure these elements are easily identified on the dashboard homepage. Also, they wanted to make sure they had something on the home page that was drawing people in so they showcased photos of students from the district.

Hamilton County CUSD #10

“Anytime you put pictures of students on the page, that is going to entice people into reading the other elements of the dashboard,” states McClain, who worked to pull all the pieces together for the district dashboard with Griffin. “This year we plan to use the dashboard to present our district report to the board of education. This actually saves us a step—in that we can walk them through the actual data included in the dashboard instead of a normal PowerPoint presentation.” McClain sees the project as a work in progress but feels the main elements are in place on the dashboard. The technology department is currently finalizing a video that will soon be linked on the home page as well.

Hamilton County CUSD #10

One of the elements Fetcho likes about the site is the teacher information report card that includes the pupil-to- teacher ratio, teachers evaluated as excellent or proficient and the ability to list those with a Master’s degree or higher. “We have used the dashboard in training purposes, and I’ve had several area superintendents reach out to us to learn how we developed the process of implementing the

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