About Us

The P-20W+ Community of Innovation (COI) Overview

The Community's goal is to accelerate the progress states are making to modernize their systems that securely manage data, from preschool through K-12, and into college and/or the workforce.

Effective state data systems can present a fuller picture of student and worker experiences and outcomes, giving state leaders solid data to inform decisions for improvement.

The COI unifies voices, state and solution provider alike, from across the P-20W+ landscape to complement existing efforts in this ecosystem as well as break new ground.

By gathering together, we believe we can begin to achieve scale.

History

The P-20W+ Community of Innovation (COI) was born from a recognition that while there are many communities of practice within the varied stages of early childhood, K-12, Postsecondary, and Workforce data efforts, there wasn't a single, gathering point for thinkers working across these arenas.

Our Community brings those people together to accelerate progress in the modernization efforts uniquely required of the P-20W+ space.

By forging groundbreaking partnerships among state agencies, technology industry partners, and data advocates, our mission is to accelerate the modernization process for state data systems spanning preschool through K-12, and on into college and or the workforce.

This unique community, co-stewarded by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and Applied Engineering Management Corporation (AEM), is developing and curating supportive toolsets, technical assets, and guides designed to enable scale, align the market, and share innovation experiences for the benefit of all state organizations across the P-20W+ landscape.

Mission, Vision, and Purpose

The P-20W+ Community of Innovation’s (COI) mission, vision, and three-fold purpose are:

Mission: To Enable cost-effective, efficient, and accessible P-20W+ systems to derive actionable data insights to reduce time to value, lower risk and cost for P-20W+ modernization efforts.

Vision: Leverage deep experience from states and expertise from solution providers to develop capabilities, artifacts, and products around common P-20W+ use cases to support modern P-20W+ data pipelines.

Purpose:

1. Accelerate progress of core states’ modernization efforts.
2. Align the market around common language, methodologies, and technical approaches to enable innovation and scale for states.
3. Structure and document the modernization experience to inspire and enable other states to be “fast followers.”

Approach

The P-20W+ Community of Innovation (COI) connects leaders across the data and technical space in order to plan, guide, and deliver high-impact supports that reflect a broad range of insights and experience. The COI follows proven practices. Our model is to work intensively with a few core states, move as quickly as possible, and share the resulting resources and experiences via our website, the Data Accelerator, for the benefit of all.

To do this, they convene a group of experts from state agencies, technology companies, education advocates, and others in the Community who are interested in a given project, they scope the work together, and then execute as a team.

The COI's work is comprised of a series of projects, such as developing a scan of best-in-class approaches to streamlining P-20W+ data access and creating playbooks to inform state efforts to establish a new P-20W+ data governance approach for faster and more efficient data access.

Some recent projects have created:

• A Guide for Sustaining P-20W+ Data Governance (2022)
• A Data Storytelling Toolkit (2022)

Governance and Gathering Model

The P-20W+ Community of Innovation (COI) follows a collaborative stewardship model.

P-20W+ COI Governance and Gathering Model, outlining the main groups that make up this community.

Resources

Learn more about us, explore the resources we build and curate, and connect with us through the Data Accelerator.