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School Districts
Go Livewith
Strategic
Dashboards To
Tell Their Story
By Mary Schaefer
IASA Director of Communications & Marketing
IASA’s vision to provide Illinois school districts an
infrastructure to tell their story and define their success is
quickly becoming a reality. Over 800 Illinois school districts
now have the IASA/ECRA Strategic Dashboard and over
1,000 school administrators across the state have been
trained on how to best tell their story via the dashboard.
As a result of the statewide trainings, IASA and ECRA have
received a tremendous
amount of feedback for how
to enhance the Strategic
Dashboard. According to Dr.
John Gatta, Chief Executive
Officer of the ECRA Group,
the dashboard is constantly
evolving and improving
with new elements and
features being added. A feature commonly requested by
superintendents was to be able to include media items as
part of a strategic indicator. The newly released version of the
dashboard now supports rich text and inclusion of images,
files, videos and other digital assets to more comprehensively
and effectively communicate the importance of a strategic
indicator. Also, a chart customization feature has been added
to create the exact visual you desire. You can now edit
nearly all chart properties and can duplicate charts for reuse.
Furthermore, the district name no longer covers your banner
art, and you can edit how your district name appears.
The most desired feature
voiced by superintendents
was the ability to share
dashboards and learn from
each other. As a result,
IASA and ECRA launched
www.ilschoolstories.comto
provide superintendents a
single location to publish and
browse Illinois school district
dashboards.
...now supports inclusion
of images, files, videos and
other digital assets to more
comprehensively and effectively
communicate the importance
of a strategic indicator.
NewVersion of
Dashboard Supports
Added Features