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IASA and ECRA Launch
website
Site Features Links to School
District Strategic Dashboards
IASA interviewed four school superintendents/administrators
to learn more about the launch of their dashboard.
Rick Schmitt, superintendent of Sandwich CUSD #430,
used the launch of their district dashboard as a way to market
the school district to the area community. Their dashboard
is prominently displayed as a click-through link on the
I was very impressed with the
framework of the IASA/ECRA
dashboard and the ability to
plug in pictures of our school
and attach videos to it in order
to promote our school district to
build upon our success story.
IASA in cooperation with ECRA has launched
a new website to help share the word about
important work being done in public school
districts at The
site allows you to see other live school district
Strategic Dashboards that have chosen to
opt-into the site. It also is a central-hub for
sharing successes about Illinois schools with
an active Twitter feed that uses the hashtag
#ILSchoolStories. If you have not already gone
public with your dashboard, here is another
reason to finish up the final preparation on
getting your dashboard live to be included
in this newly launched site. A new toggle-on
button on the Strategic Dashboard settings
page allows users to add their district’s public
dashboard to the
website. This is a great location to see other
dashboards and learn from each other to see
best practices of the Strategic Dashboard.
#ILSchoolStories
“I was very impressed with the framework of the IASA/ECRA
dashboard and the ability to plug in pictures of our school
and attach videos to it in order to promote our school district
to build upon our success story,” said Schmitt. “There are
a lot of success stories that simply don’t get mentioned in
the Illinois School Report Card and we wanted to share that
information with our community.”