Category
What is BCPS's foundational AI tool?
Microsoft Co-Pilot
The Class Weekly Minutes for a single 30 minute period in an Elementary school
150
The 2026-27 first day of school
August 10, 2026
A strategic bundle of permissions in Focus
Profile
Systems/technology that mimic human reasoning, learning, or decision-making
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
How many departments are there in the Information Services Division
6
This Course Request screen allows schools to automatically add course requests to a specific group of students
Automatic Course Requests
The census day in an FEFP funded survey
Date Certain
The BCPS Department of Juvenile Justice schools
Broward Detention Center
PACE Center for Girls
This microsoft platform integrates data engineering, data science, warehousing, real-time analytics, and Power BI into one SaaS solution.
Microsoft Fabric
Data Intelligence's mission is to support
Student Success
This is the current version of Focus we are on in Production
12.0.137 (or 137 is acceptable)
Months Data Intelligence has quarterly meetings
September
December
March
June
The BPO and SME of the Discipline program
BPO: Jodi Washington
SME: Kathy Keith
This architecture organizes data into three layers where data moves from raw, to cleaned, to business-ready stages.
Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
Bronze = raw data
Silver = cleaned and standardized data
Gold = curated, business-ready data
Out of the five BCPS strategic plan guardrails (safety, equity, school support, accountability, and wellness support) which guardrail(s) does Data Intelligence support?
All of them
This report will let school officials know if their teachers posted all required grades for report cards
Teacher Completion Report
Ensures community has access to see all emails, Teams messages, documents and BCPS official business
Public Records Request
Data quality check that reviews reported data across 2 or more formats.
Validation
In a data model, one table captures measurable metrics like attendance, while another provides descriptive attributes used for filtering and analysis. What are those tables called?
1-fact table (measurable metrics like attendance)
2-dimension table (descriptive attributes used for filtering like school)
How many BCPS (non-charter) schools are there (within 10)?
227
List all (or most) sections found on the Focus Portal page
Alerts
School Folder
Favorites/Recent Programs
District & School Announcements
Find a Student/User
Upcoming Events
Focus University
Birthday List
The BCPS Board Chair
Sarah Leonardi
List all (or most) of the SSS modules
ESE
Gifted
MTSS
Threat Assessment
Student Services
Bullying and Harassment
School Social Work
MHARRT
Suicide Risk Assessment
Mention three common types (or branches) of AI: one that learns from data, one that understands human language, and one that creates new content.
1- Machine Learning = learns from data, ML enables prediction and learning from data patterns.
2- Natural Language Processing (NLP) = understands human language, NLP powers chatbots, translation, and text understanding.
3- Generative AI = creates new content, Generative AI produces original outputs like ChatGPT responses or AI images