1. SIF Program 2013 MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Executive Office Of Education William A. Holscher – State SIF Program Manager

2. 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.

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

4. MA SIF Program 2013 Goals State SIF Vendor Certification begins 3/15/2013 SIF District On-boarding begins 4/18/2013 Relationship to other projects : SIF Districts will feed the Edwin Teaching and Learning System SIF Districts Will feed Edwin Analytics SCS will be part of the SIF Program 2013 SIF Districts will integrate with Student Claiming On-Board 234 RTTT districts by 12/31/2013 Ultimate MA SIF Program goal is to On Board all 448 school districts by 6/30/2014

5. MA SIF Program Overview The MA SIF Program 2013 is a rebaseline for the previous initiative and chartered to implement lessons learned during the October 2012 SIF Project rollout. The MA SIF data collection is an ongoing initiative that has established an initial 2013 eleven object requirement that is comprised of fifty-two SIMS, thirteen SCS and seven EPIMS data elements. The standards, policies and procedures established from this initiative are designed to be rolled forward for all future annual SIF Program data element and application enhancements

6. Lessons Learned Program Management ESE/EOE Steering Committee OversightESE/EOE Steering Committee Oversight Weekly Program Scope, Schedule and Cost ReportedWeekly Program Scope, Schedule and Cost Reported Individual Projects Report through ProgramIndividual Projects Report through Program Agent Vendors New Agent Vendor State SIF Certification Strategy and Process will be established.New Agent Vendor State SIF Certification Strategy and Process will be established. Agent Vendor State SIF Certification will be required prior to District On Boarding.Agent Vendor State SIF Certification will be required prior to District On Boarding. Agent Vendor State SIF Certification has its own project plan.Agent Vendor State SIF Certification has its own project plan. SIF Districts On-Boarding Third party vendor resources will be utilized to develop and execute new On Boarding process.Third party vendor resources will be utilized to develop and execute new On Boarding process. Comprehensive District On Boarding Communication, Documentation, Training, and Data Support will be provided.Comprehensive District On Boarding Communication, Documentation, Training, and Data Support will be provided. SIF District On Boarding has its own project plan.SIF District On Boarding has its own project plan.

7. Enhanced Architecture  Stricter SIF Agent Security Standards being adopted  Level 3 authentication and Level 4 encryption  Application Architecture Strengthened  District SIF Agent to Publish real-time events

8. MA SIF Data Flow

9. District Level ESE ZIS Production State: District Perspective SIS Publishing Agent (push) Other ZIS (e.g. SLC) Teaching and Learning Stage

10. Team Resources Team Resources will be incremental, scalable, and available as needed. ESE Data Collections New State Test Environments DevQAStaging Districts IT Support and outside services Agent Vendors ESE Data Quality

11. Three Phase District SIF Process Phase I – District Agent Vendor Certification  Vendor successfully certifies in MA SIF Test Environment  Vendor Dress Rehearsal District successfully enters production Phase II – District Pre-Onboarding Process  SIF Training  Documentation Walkthrough  Data Quality Validation Checks  SIF Connectivity Check  Dedicated SIF program Onboarding Support Phase III - Onboarding Process  Connecting district to the State SIF UAT test environment  Sending all SIF data to the State for quality assurance testing  Connecting district to the State SIF Production environment upon successful UAT testing

12. District SIF Documentation Enhanced SIF Reporting Guide designed in conjunction with District Vendor and specifically targeted to seamlessly integrate with current SIS application documentation. Includes Best Practices Data Quality Validation Checklist designed to assist Districts and Schools verify data for SIF compliance prior to on-boarding with State.

13. The Future with SIF Standard framework by which all data will flow Real-Time SASID Assignment EPIMS Reporting Real-Time Student Claiming and Un-claiming Enhanced State Reporting District to District data sharing

14. Questions Wholscher@doe.mass.edu