MiDataHub Retreat Summary and Awards
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On October 22nd and 23rd, MiDataHub held its 2nd annual retreat.
This event was an opportunity to do some strategic planning, provide information and training to those who work most closely with the project, and also to recognize some of the people who go above and beyond in their efforts.
Two statewide awards were given,
The MiDataHub Ambassador of the Year for 2019
was given to
Bryan Smith
from Ingham ISD
for
his work on integrating districts, serving as a data hub support specialist, PowerSchool and Skyward integration work with his districts, and in testing numerous MiDataHub features such as OneRoster.
The second statewide award was given to the
Ottawa Area ISD Development Team
as the
MiDataHub Technical Team of the Year
for 2019. The OAISD Dev Team has done tremendous work developing the MiRead application, which utilizes many of the MiDataHub features. They helped in piloting the Michigan Data Exchange as a method to use the data, leveraged the MiDataHub single sign on (SSO) to allow users to log in, and connected to the MiStrategyBank API to pull in strategies for reading plans.
Technical Team of the Year 2019
Ottawa Area ISD
Pictured below from left to right are Rod Holman, Josh Hubers, Natalie Boardway, Ron Oskam, Marc Eickholt, Ian Kirkpactrick.
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In addition to the two statewide awards, we also recognize two categories of regional awards, which are given to ISDs, Districts, and individuals who have demonstrated high levels of support and use of the MiDataHub infrastructure. This year,
eight awards were given
for MiDataHub Champions, which recognizes
those who have worked to support data integration and the use of interoperable data standards
.
These champions include:
Phil Carolan, Lenawee ISD - Retiree
- Phil was a long-time member of the MiDataHub Advisory, promoted integration of eSchoolPlus for the districts using the SIS statewide, served on the TRIG Steering Committee, and supported many other TRIG initiatives. Phil served as a voice for ensuring that student data privacy was well protected.
Champion Award
Phil Carolan - Lenawee ISD Retiree
Pictured below
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Doug Metcalf and Janell Craig, Oakland Schools
- Doug and Janell have always been great supporters of connecting their MISTAR districts to MiDataHub. This year, they served as the pilot for the CEPI Portable Records “snackpack” project, which will soon be adopted by other SIS vendors as the pilot concludes. Not only did they successfully connect to the snackpack service and display the information for users, but took extra steps to allow their SIS to notify appropriate users based on the information received.
Champion Awards
Doug Metcalf, Oakland Schools
Janell Craig, Oakland Schools
Pictured below
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Greg Shepard and LeAnn Szymanski, Ottawa Area ISD
- Greg and LeAnn are the primary data hub support specialists helping all Infinite Campus districts in the state. They have organized training sessions for users statewide, attend development planning meetings to discuss improvements for the connection, and are always willing to assist any Infinite Campus district in troubleshooting their connection.
Champion Awards
Greg Shepard, Ottawa Area ISD
LeAnn Szymanski, Ottawa Area ISD
Pictured below
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Joel Thiele, CEPI
- Overall, CEPI is deserving of an award from the top down for their support of the MiDataHub initiative. However, Joel stands out as our primary “boots on the ground” contact for development and implementation of all statewide connections with CEPI data. Joel has had a huge hand in creation and adoption of UIC Services, EEM Services, the portable records “snackpack” initiative, and also has assisted with the M-STEP assessment transfer work. Joel does many presentations statewide, helping to share out the benefit and value of our work.
Champion Award
Joel Thiele, CEPI
Pictured below
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We also had three Champion Award recipients who were not able to join us,
- Joe Bouman, Big Rapids Public Schools - Joe is one of the most talented Skyward SIS users in the state. Joe has not only served to configure and manage the Skyward integration to MiDataHub for his district, but he has also helped many of the other districts in his ISD with that work. We have worked with Joe and Big Rapids Public Schools as a pilot district for many initiatives, which ultimately provide value to all MiDataHub users in the state.
- Jason Kronemeyer, Eastern UP ISD - Jason is a long-term member of the MiDataHub Advisory, and has been a tremendous supporter in light of the fact that the SIS used in their region hasn’t been able to connect to MiDataHub. Through Jason’s support, EUPISD was one of the first two regions to connect to the MiDataHub Single Sign-On, and provided our first successful test of that process. Recently, Jason and his team have undertaken the work of creating a connector for the Illuminate SIS themselves, and have successfully had data flowing for a few districts as a result.
- Rick Webb, Fremont Public Schools - Rick has been a tremendous voice of support for the MiDataHub work, and has assisted with a presentation at MAEDS to detail their usage. Fremont Public Schools is connected to the MiDataHub Single Sign-On and Rick has helped us successfully connect with Career Cruising/Xello and Microsoft, and helped start the conversation with other vendors like Foxbright. Rick has also tested and utilized the OneRoster integration successfully with a few vendors.
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Three awards
were given for MiDataHub Educators, which recognizes those who have worked to
support the actionable use of data provided by MiDataHub and interoperable data standards.
Those educators include:
Julie Milewski, Central Montcalm Public Schools
- Julie and the great team at Central Montcalm Public Schools were very early adopters of the interoperability concept. They have worked to test and use the dashboards and served as willing testers of many integrations. They are one of two local districts to have our MiDataHub team visit to do a deep dive into the capabilities and how their district could user them.
Educator Awards
Julie Milewski, Central Montcalm Public Schools
Pictured below
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Two other award recipients were not available to join us,
Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools - Laker Elementary
- During the 2018-19 school year, Laker Elementary school worked diligently under the guidance of Principal Kathy Dickens to utilize the data hub dashboards and intervention catalog. Working through a number of technical glitches, more than 100 interventions were assigned and tracked throughout the course of the school year. Working with Technology Director Scott Miklovic, the district was able to connect to the MiDataHub SSO and was one of the first districts to have a number of assessment data feeds loaded. Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port Laker Schools was the other district in the state that received a site visit so that we could personally work with Laker Elementary teachers at the request of their principal.
Michelle Ribant, MDE
- Retired - Michelle was always a supporter of the concept of interoperability and championed how districts could use the work to support education. Michelle served on both the MiDataHub and Actionable Data Advisories, participated in numerous presentations, and scheduled many meetings throughout various parts of MDE to ensure that everyone was aware of the capabilities available. Michelle was a champion of badging, and we look forward to fulfilling her vision to have student badge information flowing through MiDataHub.
Congratulations to all of our award winners!
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We are pleased to announce that the Curriculum Associates team has completed their work to connect their i-Ready Diagnostic and Instruction Assessment system to MiDataHub. Their integration consists of rostering their system via the Ed-Fi API and sending assessment results back via Ed-Fi XML. Pilot districts have successfully implemented this integration, and the MiRead team is completing work to use the assessment results for identifying students who need reading improvement plans in their tool. For a walkthrough guide on configuring this integration, and much more please visit the
i-Ready page
in our
Product Catalog
.
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We have scheduled our next MiDataHub webinar for Friday, November 15th at 1pm. There have been a number of enhancements since the last webinar, as well as some new features that will soon be released. We plan to touch on state assessment data transfer, how to load other assessments, single sign-on functionality, preview our new alerts/notifications feature, and much more.
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New Districts Live on MiDataHub
- Airport Community Schools
- Algonac Community School District
- Columbia School District
- Deckerville Community School District
- East China School District
- Lakewood Public Schools
- Okemos Public Schools
- Sault Ste. Marie Area Schools
- Yale Public Schools
New District Sign Ups
- Hope of Detroit Academy
- Reese Public Schools
- Essexville-Hampton Public Schools
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