SIF Program 2015 Executive Office Of Education William A. Holscher – State SIF Program Manager

2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Technology Solutions School Interoperability Framework – SIF and Statewide Student Information System – SIS

3 Executive Office of Education

What is SIF? Schools Interoperability Framework™ (SIF) - the first, largest, and most implemented open global standard for seamless, real time data transfer and usage. The SIF Association is an international open source consortium that developed the standard for the education industry. Copyright ©2007 Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF™) Association. All Rights Reserved.

Interoperability Framework Copyright ©2007 Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF™) Association. All Rights Reserved.

SIF Solution Problem: Need to put actionable information in the hands of those who can make a difference and the data we have is periodic not reflective of what is happening in our schools today Solution: Collect near-real time data from school districts that can be turned around and used in tools as actionable information 6

SIF Program The MA SIF Program has 270 districts in production. 238 SIF districts certified for the SIMS 2015 March Collection 90% of our 234 Race To The Top (RTTT) districts on- line with SIF. All 403 MA Districts to be connected to the State using the real-time event driven SIF Framework The standards, policies and procedures established from this initiative were designed to be rolled forward for all future annual SIF Program infrastructure, data element, and subscribing application enhancements 7

SIF Program Integrations Applications Student Information Management System (SIMS) Student Course Schedule (SCS) Education Personnel Information Management System (EPIMS) School Safety Discipline Report (SSDR) Student Claiming and Un-claiming Statewide SIS SaaS EDWIN EDWIN Analytics (Longitudinal Data System - LDS)

District SIF Participation Rate

Massachusetts became the first state to require real-time SIF data transfer from school districts. ESE and EOE are working with districts and vendors to enable an increasing number of districts to transmit their student information via SIF. The SIF framework is capable of handling 10+ million transactions a day and has 270 districts in production. SIF Future:  Real-time state assignment of student identification numbers (SASIDs) and educator identification numbers (MEPIDs)  Enhanced student and course performance reporting functionalities available to districts through Edwin Analytics and Edwin Teaching and Learning  District to District Student Record Exchange  Inter-state National Student Record Exchange The SIF Direction

MA District Vendor SIF Performance Rating April 8, School Brains 2.MMS 3.Follett 4.Pearson 5.Rediker 6.IMG* 7.Infinite Campus

The Executive Office of Education (EOE) in conjunction with Massachusetts Information Technology (MassIT) and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has contracted with Aptium LLC (SchoolBrains) to deploy a web based Student Information System (SIS) in the Commonwealth’s Data Center. SchoolBrains is a MA SIF and SIS Certified Vendor currently supporting a number of districts.  The web based Software as a Service (SaaS) model will allow even very small Districts to utilize a fully functional SIF enabled SIS for a very low annual Price Per Student (PPS) cost.  The Statewide SIS SaaS contract is available to all Districts.  Comprehensive Functional and Technical Requirements included in Core SIS Statewide SIS SaaS

District Impact -Statewide SIS  Save Money under Statewide Contract  100% SIF and Federated (Single Sign on) Security Enabled  PPS Cost includes – Hosting, Training, Data Migration, Configuration and Set-up  Integrated SIS solution reduces district plug-in costs  Reduced district operational and support costs  Web based access for any browser or device  Highly configurable and district customizable

District Cost -Statewide SIS Price Per Student (PPS)* * Annual Price Per Student Declines as additional districts onboard

MassIT & EOE Technology Initiatives  Consolidated SIMS, SCS, and EPIMS Data Collections via SIF  Enhanced Data Collection Reporting Tools  Automated State to District Code Table Updating  District Federated Security  Replace Existing District Legacy Flat File State Reporting with SIF  Enhance EDWIN Reporting  Provide Technology Support to Districts  Additional Grant Opportunities

Contact: William A. Holscher Commonwealth SIF Program Manager Executive Office of Education 75 Pleasant Street Malden, MA (781) (Office) (603) (Cell)

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