all that data, distill it down to a place where they can understand where kids are and what they need to do to move kids in the right direction.” The district uses Microsoft’s Power BI, a product that allows information across many assessment systems to be combined while keeping local control. “We’re not relying on a third party to make a change, and we’re not relying on some external company or vendor to aggregate data,” reports McMahon. “Our principals can access it in real time, so they’re seeing the results of those assessments and how they impact school performance, and then they can make changes and adapt from there.” This approach also utilizes artificial intelligence to project year-end performance from the earliest assessments, such as state tests and diagnostics like i-Ready.“We have the ability for our principals to look from day one at where their students are performing and how it relates to a predictive model at the end of the year,” Dr. McMahon recounts. “As they make changes to interventions, as they 4 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 07
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