Dashboards that Matter
Most public dashboards display data without creating understanding. That distinction matters.
Dashboards can either help families and communities understand what schools are doing, or quietly undermine trust by presenting technical information without context. Those are not the same thing.
Over five interactive 90-minute sessions, district teams learn how to decide what belongs on a public dashboard and how to present it in ways that make sense to non-technical audiences.
For central office teams shaping how school work is understood.
Learn
A district team will leave this series
designing dashboards that create understanding for public audiences, rather than releasing technical data meant only for interpretation by trained staff.
Participants will learn how to:
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Decide what belongs on a public dashboard and what does not
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Lead with benefits and purpose rather than metrics alone
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Translate technical data into signals families and communities can understand
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Align dashboards with how schools actually do their work
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Use dashboards to support trust-building conversations, not defensive explanations
Great dashboarding is not a technical problem. It is a content and communication problem. This series builds the capability to address it.
Why?
Dashboards that work internally often fail publicly.
Inside a district, technical dashboards help trained staff see patterns and manage work. Released to the public, those same dashboards create confusion rather than understanding.
Public dashboards have a different job. They must help families and communities understand what schools are doing and why it matters.
Too often, districts publish highly technical dashboards and mistake data transparency for understanding. When dashboards fail to create understanding, trust is the cost.
Dashboards that Matter focuses on designing dashboards that match their audience and purpose, so public reporting supports clarity, credibility, and trust.
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This work is designed to fit your district.
Dashboards that Matter is built as a district-by-district effort. Because schools, central offices, and communities differ, the work focuses on your context rather than a generic template.
The series uses your district’s questions, constraints, and priorities as the lens for the work, so the learning is based in how your schools actually operate and your community needs.
Stop dashboards from working against you and make them work for you
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...and we'll make sure you have what you need to make a good decision.
