District Connection Database

The DCD is a platform districts can use to provide their educators with access to historical, timely, and predictive information on all students to help manage academic performance and anticipate issues that could arise throughout the year. The system will save time and effort that teachers, principals, and administrators spend each year assessing and diagnosing students across campuses.

  • The system will flag emerging issues before they become serious. Teachers can capture the intervention selected and keep track of whether the intervention is working.
  • Less time is spent accessing and analyzing data and more time focused on meeting the needs of each individual student.
  • Teachers can make adjustments in their instruction and address the actual needs of their students.
  • The PEIMS submission will be generated by periodic uploads of data “snapshots” from the DCD for specific compliance, funding, and accountability purposes. Each district can decide to upload additional data more frequently based on the needs of its educators.
  • The DCD is a FERPA-compliant solution. Only educators will be allowed to see the data housed in the DCD. The data will not be shared with external stakeholders or the TEA.
  • Training Demonstration Video

Technical Resources

District Connection Database

DCD Documentation

    • The purpose of this resource is to share a set of tools that are portable, modular, and reusable so that practitioners can inform the next wave of performance management systems.Link to DCD Documentation
    • Learn more about DCD Dashboards and Metrics Sharing best practices around a set of predictive metrics and creating visual depictions of these metrics that resonate with educators

DCD Request for Offer Listings

DCD Request for Information

Lessons Learned: Prototype Phase 1

This paper describes the development approaches used in the initial DCD prototype with highlights of the technical team's encountered challenges.
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Lessons Learned: Prototype Phase 2

This document outlines experiences and lessons learned during the second phase of DCD prototype development.
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District Connections Database Project Support

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of children living in urban poverty around the world. With offices in Austin, TX; New Delhi, India; and Cape Town, South Africa, the Dell family foundation funds programs that foster high-quality public education and childhood health and improve the economic stability of families living in poverty. The foundation has committed more than $530 million to global children's issues and community initiatives to date. Learn more


Double Line Partners

Double Line Partners, LLC works with a broad range of state and local education agencies across the United States to create scorecards and dashboards to improve student performance. For the Texas Student Data System initiative, Double Line Partners is responsible for developing the data standard, dashboard design and metrics, stakeholder engagement and the dashboard prototype pilots. Learn more

 

Educator Resources

Events & Webinars


April 2011