New Data Survey Seeks to Assess What Technical Assistance Schools Need

Project Unicorn Launches School System Data Survey Alongside Sixteen Coalition Members

FEBRUARY 23, 2022 | Brooklyn, NY - Project Unicorn, a coalition of 16 organizations led by InnovateEDU, is releasing their 2nd annual School System Data Survey. Designed to help Project Unicorn better understand current K12 school system capabilities and infrastructure for leveraging education data, this survey will provide insights to determine what resources and technical assistance are needed to support schools and demonstrate to edtech vendors the need for interoperability.

This year’s survey will assess schools and districts on the status of their education data within the following domains:

  • Leadership and Vision

  • Governance

  • Technology and Infrastructure Landscape

  • Procurement

  • Implementation Fidelity

  • Impact on Educational Environment

"The School System Data Survey is unique in its focus on district capabilities for leveraging education data,” said Susan Bearden, Director of Digital Programs at InnovateEDU. “It also serves as a valuable self-assessment tool, no matter where they are on their data journey."

The School System Data Survey will continue to be administered annually, in order to track data interoperability and privacy trends across the field over time. The results of this annual survey will be documented within the State of the Sector Report and measure growth and change in data usage in the sector. The 2021 State of the Sector Report can be downloaded here.

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Project Unicorn is a national initiative coordinated by InnovateEDU and powered by a coalition of organizations representing stakeholders across the education sector focused on the goal to optimize and radicalize education data with interoperability, Project Unicorn leads the development of events, tools, and resources to educate K-12 buyers of edtech products, bring clarity to interoperability standards, help edtech vendors meet the demand for interoperability, raise awareness of the importance of interoperability for understanding all students’ paths to graduation regardless of income or zip code, and ultimately see how interoperability can create data magic for schools and students.

Project Unicorn does not endorse a specific product or data standard but instead is an educational advocacy initiative dedicated to the secure, controlled interchange of data.

Contact: Gabrielle Lue, InnovateEDU, gabrielle@innovateedunyc.org