Leveraging Data and Dashboards to Improve Equity and Outcomes (Online Workshop 1-4pm)

MSAA Professional Development Workshop for Administrative and Teaching Staff Interested in Using State and Local Data for School Improvement

Leveraging Data and Dashboards to Improve Equity and Outcomes

The Massachusetts Education-to-Career Research and Data Hub (E2C Hub) is the state’s new resource for discovering longitudinal data on education and outcomes. Data and tools in the E2C Hub can help you compare programs, evaluate investments, and understand trends in your school or district and across the state.  

In this workshop, we'll tour some existing dashboards and data stories to quickly access and share insights with your educators, families, and communities. We’ll work collaboratively to identify and answer questions that can be informed by available data on enrollment, staffing, spending, assessments, courses, pathways, and post-secondary success. Then, we'll show you how to work with large multi-year datasets and connect them to Google Sheets for custom analysis and visualization.  

Workshop Goals/Objectives:

·         Use the E2C Hub to find tools, dashboards, and datasets that can inform better policies and practices 

·         Explore how to disaggregate data by student groups to identify opportunity gaps 

·         Learn how to work with multi-year datasets to extract the information they need 

·         Connect data to Google Sheets and build a data visualization

When: Monday, November 3, 2025, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Delivery Method: Online Workshop

ZOOM Link: It will be provided on Friday, October 31  

Presenter: NJ Rees, DESE - E2C Hub 

PD Hours: 3 in Content Area Data and Assessment

Fees: Member $120 / Non-Member $150

MSAA Contact: Victoria Ellison, vellison@msaa.net 

NJ Rees | DESE - E2C Hub

NJ has dedicated their career to building an ecosystem of access and equity in public education. Before joining the E2C Hub team, they were the Digital Literacy and Computer Science Program Coordinator for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, focused on broadening statewide participation in K-12 computer science. NJ has several years of classroom teaching experience in STEM, and has led professional development at the district, state, and national levels to advance best practices for supporting all students. Offline, NJ enjoys gardening and fighting an ongoing battle with the invasive plants in their neighborhood.