Path to the Summit: West Virginia Heightens Local Data Literacy

13/03/2025 24 min Temporada 1 Episodio 61
Path to the Summit: West Virginia Heightens Local Data Literacy

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Encouraging local data literacy is one of the most effective ways to heighten your state’s data quality, as Sheilah Paitsel, Tonya Rutkowski, and Jonathan Shank from the West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) recently discovered. Last September, they helped host the state’s first-ever Special Education Data Summit. Listen in as the WVDE team relives the quick four months of planning, during which they conducted a needs assessment, secured a keynote speaker, and even braved several natural disasters to forge a path to their Summit. Join host Amy Bitterman for an episode full of insights, successes, and tips for building data quality, data literacy, and awareness that you won’t want to miss.

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