For Matt Reynolds, Assessment and Data Officer for the 64,000+ trainees that go to Douglas County School District in Colorado, running the typical evaluation numbers was obviously useless in 2015.

In this conversation with eSchool News, Matts speaks about how they are supporting student learning during this time, in addition to assisting teachers engage trainees and drive guideline.

That does not indicate that data collection was not an important part of district operations. Quite the contrary in truth.

The following excerpts have actually been edited for clarity.

eSN: Crunching numbers has most likely been a little bit different in 2020-2021?

MR: I never believed that I would in a million years be taking a look at COVID information, keeping track of the variety of quarantines, the number of favorable tests to now, taking a look at the number of personnel that are getting their vaccinations. Its not necessarily the focus of our discussion here, however it simply speaks with the levels of shifts that weve had to perform in regards to our total information needs.

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