2025 Education Indicator Data Collaborative Workshop

Welcome

The 2025 Education Indicator Data Collaborative Workshop is a two-day, hands-on workshop bringing together education data scientists and K-12 practitioners, including teachers, principals, and district administrators, to design and test data solutions for schools and districts centered on public open access opportunity and resource data linked to outcomes. Participants will collaborate to develop actionable data visualizations and tools that support decision-making around key educational indicators.

The hosts of this workshop, CALL MEI, are part of multi-institution, six-year project entitled CALL ECL. The CALL-MEI study is a two-year project (2023-2025) to develop a new set of education indicators, evidence models, and data tools to measure the process and outcomes of equity-centered leadership. The study is led by Dr. Alex Bowers, (Teachers College), Dr. Christopher Saldana, and Dr. Richard Halverson (UW Madison). Our teams draw on publicly available achievement, descriptive, demographic, and financial data to create useful data resources for Equity-Centered Principal Pipeline Initiative (ECPI) districts to measure and support their equity-centered leadership preparation and support efforts.

This Wallace Foundation funded project is part of a larger Comprehensive Assessment of Learning Leadership collaboration with eight urban school districts across the United States.

Agenda

Day 1 - Thursday, June 26th

8:30 - 9:30 AM Check-in & Breakfast

9:30 -9:45 AM Welcome Remarks

Speaker: Professor Sonya Douglass
Professor of Education Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University; Founding Director, Black Education Research Collective; Co-Director, Urban Educators Leaders Program
Speaker: Dr. Will Jordan
Research Officer, Wallace Foundation, New York City

9:45 - 10:35 AM Meet: Data Sprint Teams

10:35 - 11 AM Data Sprint Today – Preparing for the Data Marathon of Tomorrow

Speaker: Dr. Meador Pratt
Director, Nassau BOCES Regional Information Center (RIC)

11 AM-12 PM Leading with Evidence in Schools

Facilitator: Professor Alex J. Bowers
Professor, Education Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University

12 - 1 PM Lunch

Keynote Speaker: Professor Brandi Hinnant-Crawford
Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Clemson University; Author of Improvement Science in Education, a Primer

1 - 1:15 PM Break

1:15 - 3 PM Quick Talks: Data Scientists & Data Sprint Teams

3 - 3:15 PM. Snack & Coffee / Tea Break

3:15 - 4:45 PM Priorities and Possibilities: Data Sprint Teams

4:45 - 5 PM What’s Next: Day 2

5:15- 6:30 PM Cocktail Hour / Data Scientist Visualization Code & Dataset Workshop

Day 2 - Friday, June 27th

8:30 - 9:30 AM Check-in & Breakfast

9:30 - 10:45 AM Data Visualization & Dashboards Expo

10:45 - 11:15 AM Brainstorm Visualizations: Data Sprint Teams

11:15 AM - 12 PM Pilot Visualizations: Data Sprint Teams

12 - 1 PM Working Lunch: Data Sprint Teams

1 - 1:15 PM Break

1:15 - 2:30 PM Education Indicator Data Visualizations: Data Sprint Teams

2:30-2:45 PM Snack & Coffee/ Tea Break

2:45 - 4:15 PM Reflect & Share Visualizations: Data Sprint Teams

4:15 - 4:30 PM What’s Next: Post Event

Location

Smith Learning Theater

Russell Hall, 4th Floor

Teachers College, Columbia University

525 West 120th Street

New York, NY 10027

Important Note:

You will first enter campus through the main entrance at Zankel Hall.

Please bring a form of photo identification with you.

Directions

By Subway

The subway station serving Teachers College is the 116th Street stop of the No. 1 subway train (red line). Be sure that you are on (or transfer to) the 1 train at the 96th Street Station. The express lines (No. 2 or No. 3 trains) do not serve Columbia University.

At Penn Station & the Port Authority Bus Terminal: Find Subway Entrance and Take line 1.
At Grand Central Station: the Shuttle (S) goes to "Times Square" 42nd Street, offering access to the No. 1 trains going Northbound/Uptown.

By Train

Trains to New York arrive at Grand Central Station or Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station. Visitors arriving at these stations can take either public transportation or a taxi north to the campus.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) - the information hub for NYC Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Long Island Bus, Metro-North Railroad as well as metropolitan bridges and tunnels
Amtrak
Long Island Railroad
New Jersey Transit

By Car

While West 120th Street offers metered parking on both sides of the street, parking on New York City streets in the Columbia University area is limited.

Nearby off-street parking facilities include (please call garages directly for current prices and reservations):

Morningside Garage, 3100 Broadway (at 123rd Street), (212) 864-9877
E & B Operating Corp., 137 West 108th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues), (212) 865-8315
Park Yorkshire Garage, 151 West 108th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues), (212) 865-2314
Upper Westside Parking Garage, 234 West 108th Street (between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway), (212) 222-8800
Riverside Church Garage, 120th Street (between Riverside Drive and Claremont Avenue), (212) 870-6736
Riverside Church, evening parking only, (212) 866-1000.