ELDA Summit 2023

Education Leadership Data Analytics 2023 Conference

#ELDA2023

Welcome to the Education Leadership Data Analytics 2023 Conference!

Education Leadership Data Analytics (ELDA) is the emerging domain of research, practice, and policy in PK-12 education that focuses on bringing together four broad domains at the intersection of 1) Education Leadership, 2) Evidence Based Improvement Cycles, 3) Data Science, 4) and Equity-centered data practices. The Education Leadership Data Analytics 2023 Conference (#ELDA2023) at Teachers College, Columbia University is designed to bring together educators and administrators with research leaders and innovators working at the intersections of individual overlaps of two or more of these four circles in the Venn diagram. The ELDA 2023 Conference is designed to bring participants together across a wide variety of fields in education who work collaboratively with or within schools and districts, know how to facilitate and lead capacity building conversations with educators using evidence and data to build trust and collaboration, and work with data through open access code, analytics, data science, data visualizations and dashboards, data mining and machine learning, and statistics.

The ELDA 2023 Conference will be held on Friday, June 23 at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City.

The event is free and open to the public.
Due to limited seating, registration is required and will be accepted up to seating capacity on a first-come-first-served basis with a waiting list.

ELDA2023 will consist of a set of engaging speakers and panels in the morning and then transition to afternoon concurrent paper sessions and an innovative data visualization and dashboard expo. Throughout these exciting sessions, participants will network and collaborate around the central issues of the research, training and capacity-building questions that are central to the field to engage schools, districts, and education system leaders in evidence-based improvement cycles informed by data analytics, data science, and equity-focused engagement with communities and stakeholders around their data, data visualizations, Instructional Data Warehouses (IDWs), machine learning, and recommendation and pattern analytic systems.

On the evening of Thursday June 22, we will host a reception, networking and poster-session pre-conference event, from 5-7pm, at Teachers College, Columbia University. We invite all attendees to participate, and invite attendees to bring a 2x3 ft poster on your current research (poster not required to attend the pre-conference event). These posters may also be used in the afternoon event on Friday. Please indicate in your registration your intentions to attend this pre-conference networking reception and whether you would like to present a poster.

Participants interested in presenting a paper presentation on their current research during the concurrent afternoon sessions on June 23 are encouraged to submit a paper proposal using the below call for paper presentation proposals link. Participants are encouraged to present either new or recently published research at either the poster session, the concurrent papers sessions, or both!

Please note that poster and paper presentation registration information may be used in post-conference publications, such as media, and a potential published proceedings, including name, affiliation, email address, and presented title and abstract.

Notification of paper acceptance is scheduled for early April.

All posters are accepted as registered that adhere to the topics outlined here; however, the number of overall poster presentations is dependent on seating and capacity constraints. Priority will be provided on a first-come-first-serve basis.

(Note: A poster is optional and not required for registration for the ELDA 2023 Conference.)

Friday June 23 Morning and Afternoon sessions are currently FULL - New registrations for the conference will be placed on a waitlist.

Education Leadership Data Analytics 2023 Conference (#ELDA2023) call for paper presentation proposals

Education Leadership Data Analytics 2023 Conference (#ELDA2023) call for paper presentation proposals:

PK-12 schools and districts collect and display ever increasing amounts and types of data for educators to use to inform instructional improvement. The range of data and dashboards is vast, zooming in on student data including test scores, grades, interim assessments, attendance, behavior, as well as new forms of intelligent tutoring, learning analytics, and learning system management data and meta-data, or zooming out to teacher, principal, and school-level data including school climate, trust, data-use, academic press, and community engagement among many others. Yet, to date there is an increasing need noted across the research and practice literature to bring together these many different data sources to provide relevant and actionable information for decision making by not only by administrators, but also teachers, parents, the community, and ultimately, students, in an effort to inform evidence-based continuous improvement cycles focused on instruction and student and organizational success. This work at this intersection, known as Education Leadership Data Analytics (ELDA), is defined as:

ELDA practitioners work collaboratively with schooling system leaders and teachers to analyze, pattern, and visualize previously unknown patterns and information from the vast sets of data collected by schooling organizations, and then integrate findings in easy to understand language and digital tools into collaborative and community building evidence-based improvement cycles with stakeholders (Bowers et al, 2019, p.8).

Ultimately, this work of ELDA focuses on the work at the intersection of Education Leadership, Evidence-Based Improvement Cycles, Data Science, and Equity.

ELDA 2023 Conference participants interested in proposing a paper presentation are encouraged to review the open access reports from the three previous ELDA events:

· Education Leadership Data Analytics (ELDA): A White Paper Report on the 2018 ELDA Summit (2019). https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-31a0-pt97

· Data Visualization, Dashboards, and Evidence Use in Schools: Data Collaborative Workshop Perspectives of Educators, Researchers, and Data Scientists (2021). https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jj2g-e225

· Mapping 16 Equity Indicators to the New York City Schools Public Datasets: Access, Opportunity, and Outcomes (2022). https://doi.org/10.7916/a143-aq05

Proposal submitters are encouraged to propose to present either newly completed research studies or recently published research, practice, or policy reports that have been presented or published elsewhere. Proposals are encouraged that address at least two or more of the overlapping issues of 1) Education Leadership, 2) Evidence-Based Improvement Cycles, 3) Data Science, 4) and Equity.

Proposals should include names, affiliations, and emails of all contributing authors, a 10-20 word title, and a 100-120 word abstract. Accepted paper proposal presenters will be expected to present a presentation in person at the conference. Individual presentations are expected to be about 10-15 minutes long.

The deadline for paper proposal submission in Friday March 31, 2023. Please note that space is limited, and we are unable to accept all proposals. Notification of paper acceptance is scheduled for mid-April.

Paper Proposal Submissions are Closed (Due Date Passed). Please see the above link for conference registration and poster registration.

Agenda

June 22nd (THURS), 2023

4:00-5:00 pm Registration, check-in, and poster set-up

5:00-7:00 pm Poster session and reception

June 23rd (FRI), 2023

8:00-9:00 am Registration, check-in, and breakfast

9:00-9:15 am Welcome to the Education Leadership Data Analytics 2023 Conference

Mark Anthony Gooden PhD, Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Professor in Education Leadership, Director of the Endeavor Antiracist & Restorative Leadership Initiative (EARLI), Chair of the Department of Organization & Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University

9:15-10:00 am Introduction Talk:

Alex J. Bowers PhD, Professor of Education Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University
Talk Title: Education Leadership Data Analytics: How Data Visualization, AI, Pattern Analytics, and Data Science can Inform Evidence-Based Improvement Cycles

10:00-10:15 am Coffee Break

10:15-11:00 am Keynote I:

Brandi Hinnant-Crawford PhD, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Clemson University
Talk Title: Analytics for Liberation: Measuring Counternarratives and Operationalizing Justice

11:00-11:45 am Keynote II:

Elizabeth N. Farley-Ripple PhD, Associate Professor, Director Partnership for Public Education, University of Delaware
Talk Title: Data Matters: Linking Systems to Practice for Effective and Equitable Data Use

12:00-1 pm Lunch

12:00-4 pm Expo Session

1:15-2:30 pm Concurrent Paper Session I

2:30-2:45 pm Coffee Break

2:45-4:00 pm Concurrent Paper Session II

Location

Milbank Chapel, Teachers College, 525 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027 (Main entrance: Zankel Hall)

Link to: Teachers College, Columbia University

[Directions to Teachers College]

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.

2. By Train

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

3. By Car

- Parking

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
  - Evening parking is available at Riverside Church (call (212) 866-1000

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