Essential Questions
This sector is referenced the most in the essential questions.
What is K-12?
Another word for "measure," recommended ones are included with indicators so we can determine how students are performing and progressing toward key outcomes and how underlying conditions help or hinder their success.
What is "metric"?
Dashboard that states can access to know what EWF measures and indicators they already collect or report on, and how this compares to other states.
What is ECS state comparision tool?
The number of recommended disaggregates
What is 26?
This popular restaurant is also the name of a current kids' trend (and we are eating there tonight).
What is Six Seven?
Most frequent use case for states to use them (the Essential Questions)
What is setting a research agenda? or inventory-ing data available in their SLDS?
Factors included in the EWF, known to affect learner and worker outcomes, that exist outside of the education system: e.g. Food Security, Access to Transportation, Access to Technology, Health Insurance Coverage
What are Adjacent systems conditions?
This partner has been creating playbooks and e-learning courses to help community based organizations understand how to use the EWF, go deeper into areas of interest and identify promising practice to use in their communities.
What is Strive Together?
Partners piloting the EWF with school districts in Tennessee, Arkansas, California and Nebraska to improve teacher pipelines, CTE, math and college and career pathways for students.
Who is USC and TNTP?
Built for the 1962 World’s Fair, whose theme was “The Age of Space" it still stands and was featured in all 11 seasons of Fraiser's opening credits
What is the Space Needle?
Are students graduating from high school on time and successfully transitioning into further education, training, or employment? A popular essential question for states, NY is centering their use of the EWF on it.
What is Essential Question 14?
Name the three domains of indicators in the framework
What is academic progress & completion, career readiness & economic success, and social, emotional, and physical well-being?
This partner is building a user interface for state and district to automatically assess how much EWF data is availble in thier data warehouse, using Ed-Fi standards and/or CEDS connections.
Who is DoubleLine?
Established by Mathematica in 2024, an 11-member advisory board does this every two years. In 2024 they evaluated 28 potential ones.
What is make changes to the EWF?
In 1965 this sport was born on Bainbridge Island (a short ferry ride from Seattle) in 1965, in 2022 it was named the official State Sport of Washington.
What is pickleball?
Interactive dashboard that provides federally available data to answer the essential questions and allows users to compare results at the state, county and neighborhood level.
What is Urban Institute's Education to Workforce Data Tool?
Indicator that measures how much individuals feel they belong and are connected to their peers in their schools, postsecondary institutions, and workplaces
What is Inclusive Environments?
These are analysis plans that outline data elements for states and districts to help users calculate the E-W Measures for each indicator, using a national standard that can be integrated into their data warehouses. These can be found on each indicator page.
What are the CEDS Connections?
This princple of the EWF restores communities as data experts using culturally responsive approaches to engagement and co-creation that support equitable data use
What is Data Equity Principle #7?
On trips to Seattle, the Beatles most frequently stayed at this hotel
What is the Edgewater Hotel?
Cross-cuttting essential question that is relevant for all sectors(EL, K12, PS, WF) using the EWF
What is Essential Question 1: Do students and families have access to adequate public supports and neighborhood conditions to enable them to succeed academically and in the workforce ?
Indicator that measures the extent to which students believe that their abilities can grow with effort. Carol Dweck's 3-item scale to measure it can be accessed directly through this indicators page.
What is Growth Mindset?
To contextualize the need for this data warehouse, a postsecondary system is testing out aspects of the framework for framing the importance of standardizing collection of programmatic data at the university system level (such as dual enrollment, mentorship, participation in work-based-learning) that could be used to track the efficacy of these interventions.
What is the central program database (CPD)? or CUNY's CPD?
Name at least two of four main factors that make the Education-to-Workforce Framework unique
What is its a cross-sector framework, it calls for using systems conditions, adjacent systems conditions data to understand student outcomes & milestones, it builds from 41 other frameworks (greatest hits), it has data equity principles and evidence based practices?
Well-loved Italian restaurant where on Tuesdays you might see an aerialist in flight near your pasta. Note: you have a better chance of getting in if you don't look like a tourist from a cruise ship.
What is Pink Door?