1. S L I C E S outh Carolina L ongitudinal I nformation C enter for E ducation Public SLICE Launch Announcement January 9, 2014 Christian Heneghan - SLICE Program Manager Paul Butler-Nalin - Director, Office of Research & Data Analysis

2. SLICE –January Activities MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday Jan 6Jan 7Jan 8Jan 9 SLICE Public Launch 9 am Jan 10 Jan 13 Public Information Officers Meeting 10 am Jan 14Jan 15 Public Information Officers Meeting TBD Jan 16Jan 17 Jan 20 SLICE Single Sign On Pilot Group Meeting Jan 21Jan 22 SLICE Working Group Meeting Face to Face Jan 23Jan 24 Jan 27 Jan 28Jan 29Jan 30Jan 31

3. Public SLICE The Public SLICE site launched today, January 9, 2014. The Public SLICE site will provide the same power and capabilities of the EdFi system that South Carolina’s districts already have to the general public. Using the Public SLICE site users will be able to view and analyze academic and operational to better understand the state of education in South Carolina. The Public SLICE site is completely independent of the District SLICE site. The two systems primarily differ in that the Public SLICE site contains neither teacher nor student level data.

6. Public vs. Private CapabilityPublic SLICE Dashboards District SLICE Dashboards Access to aggregate data from schools and districts as well as higher-ed, employment and pre-k data Access to Student level InformationNo Access to Teacher level InformationNo Access to Personally Identifiable Information (PII)No Ability to set and use district level benchmarksNo Ability to see local assessment data resultsNo

7. Where am I going? SystemLocation Public SLICE Dashboards http://slice.ed.sc.gov District SLICE Dashboards http://sdw.ed.sc.gov Student Potential Performance System (SPPS) http://spps.ed.sc.gov SLICE Portal Page http://ed.sc.gov/agency/slice/Publ icSLICE.cfm

8. What’s Next? The next meeting of the SLICE working groups will be in Columbia on January 22 nd. This group will be discussing the next Training, Data & Development activities that the SLICE team will working on over then next 3 months. Please join us if you can.

9. Open invitation to all members of the SLICE community To provide input, guidance and critique of SLICE Or To learn more about the SLICE system, training, and the joint SCDE/Districts Data Quality Initiative, please contact us by Email at SLICE@ ed.sc.gov Contacts: Paul Butler-Nalin, Director, Office of Research & Data Analysis, pmbutlernalin@ed.sc.gov pmbutlernalin@ed.sc.gov Christian Heneghan, SLICE Program Manager, cheneghan@ed.sc.govcheneghan@ed.sc.gov