In this episode, Sarah Enterline Roch discusses her professional journey, including her current role at St. Mark's School, and highlights the challenges elementary school students face with establishing their identities. She delves into strategies for enhancing the quantity and quality of hard-to-acquire personal data, emphasizing the need for collaboration among various roles within institutional research to achieve significant outcomes. Sarah also shares practical advice for those new to institutional research, touching on data governance, privacy policies, and the benefits of a unique identifier across multiple systems, while illustrating how effective institutional research has led to positive changes in educational settings.

Resources

• Center for Institutional Research at Independent Schools (CIRIS)
• St. Mark's School
• CIRIS Data Culture Assessment
• ATLIS360 Self-Study Guide, thoroughly evaluate how your school utilizes technology and the effects it has on the school
• Principles of Good Practice: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age, from NAIS
• Student Thrive Index Model (located lower on the page), measure how your students experience various aspects of school life

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