Accelerating practice in  measurable ways

Following in-depth interviews, surveys are used to help prioritize potential topics and projects for the Data Accelerator. While each project team is provided guidelines based on these inputs, they may evolve the work further as they make progress.

Our core team members—the members who support Accelerator activities—define strategy and guide the results. As these core team members are leaders and practitioners in the P-20W+ space, we recognize the limitations on their time. States and service providers are not required to participate in everything—they select which project they would like to engage in, so they can focus on that piece of the work. In this way, we can help to balance workload and advance multiple projects at the same time.

Ideally, more than one. While we create internal learning agendas for sharing and research, and explore topics through private lectures, literature reviews, peer exchanges, and other approaches as appropriate, our goal is always for project work to widely benefit states. As such, we aim to document case studies and create guidance, re-usable templates, and other shared resources.

No, every state will continue to have special characteristics. Our hope is that every state can find value in what this community develops so it moves their own work ahead faster or more efficiently.

We welcome expressions of interest and we encourage you to reach out using the site’s contact form.

As the Data Accelerator develops new guidance, we add resources to this site and promote them to our email list. On a periodic basis, the Data Accelerator stewards also recommend external resources for inclusion that are objective, advance the state of practice, and align with the Accelerator’s core areas of work. These recommendations are vetted by state members before they are posted.