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Jeff Fetcho, superintendent of Hamilton County CUSD
#10, had conversations with various faculty and staff in
every building and narrowed down highlights for student
success in the construction of his district dashboard. He
adds the district’s technology/curriculum staff person was
instrumental in helping to build the framework and promoting
the dashboard’s launch on Twitter and Facebook. The district
serves a student population of 1,299.
Fetcho was one of the early adopters in creating and
launching his district dashboard site and he sees it as a
building block to further reporting successful achievements
for the district. He plans to review the dashboard at monthly
administrator meetings and always have it on the agenda for
discussion purposes and for updates to the site.
The dashboard is accessible from the
“For the first time we have a school safety officer so we
definitely wanted to mention that within the dashboard,” says
Fetcho.
dashboard,” said Fetcho. He was vocal in encouraging other
superintendents to begin work on their dashboard site at
Egyptian IASA regional meetings.
Dr. Jill Griffin, superintendent of Bethalto CUSD #8,
and Kelly McClain Director of Curriculum Instruction and
Assessment at Bethalto, both attended the IASA/ECRA
dashboard training and were equally impressed by the
various components of the dashboard. The district serves
2,500 students in PreK-12 grades.
After reviewing some dashboards being compiled by other
districts, they executed a strategy for all the elements they
wanted to see on their district Their priority was
to regularly communicate with stakeholders the district’s
vision, mission statement and goals and to make sure these
elements are easily identified on the dashboard homepage.
Also, they wanted to make sure they had something on the
home page that was drawing people in so they showcased
photos of students from the district.
One of the elements Fetcho likes about the site is the
teacher information report card that includes the pupil-to-
teacher ratio, teachers evaluated as excellent or proficient
and the ability to list those with a Master’s degree or higher.
“We have used the dashboard in training purposes, and
I’ve had several area superintendents reach out to us to
learn how we developed the process of implementing the
“Anytime you put pictures of students on the page, that is
going to entice people into reading the other elements of the
dashboard,” states McClain, who worked to pull all the pieces
together for the district dashboard with Griffin. “This year we
plan to use the dashboard to present our district report to the
board of education. This actually saves us a step—in that
we can walk them through the actual data included in the
dashboard instead of a normal PowerPoint presentation.”
McClain sees the project as a work in progress but feels
the main elements are in place on the dashboard. The
technology department is currently finalizing a video that will
soon be linked on the home page as well.