Dashboards that Matter...

...allow a district team to work through how to create dashboards that create trust across a community towards its schools.

By applying the principles that underly the Trust Restoration Framework and its tools dashboards can be transformed from being a data release to creating the kinds of true that can scale.

Over five interactive 90-minute sessions, we work with a district team, seminar style, to do the following:

• Work through the tools and ideas of what it takes to make a dashboard great.
• Review existing public-facing efforts across the district.
• Analyze websites to determine where trust is being built and 

Why This Matters

Dashboards have an audience and a purpose, and serve to confuse more than enlighten when those get mixed up. In most places, dashboards that consist primarily of data elements are for internal use, requiring technical expertise to interpret properly. Those that report on benefits or values are for internal use, written in term any audience can easily understand.

 In schools, dashboards almost always consist of technical data presented to the public in the name of transparency. The result is that most dashboards are neither transparent nor easily understood.

When designed with the full public in mind, dashboards that clearly communicate a school’s effectiveness and challenges can be a powerful tool for building and sustaining trust.

And that can help make a huge difference in the narratives surrounding your schools and the broader narratives surrounding public education. 

Your Next Step

Dashboards that Matters is a district-by-district effort. Much of the series focuses on the problems of practice through the district's lenses so that the dialogue is specific to a district's needs.

To register your district team in a Dashboards that Matter series, or to schedule a conversation, just click below. Once you register, bravEd will reach out to schedule the sessions with your team.