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Empowering K-12 Leaders: Author Dashboards to Fit Your District's Needs

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Empowering K-12 Leaders: Author Dashboards to Fit Your District's Needs

Empowering K-12 Leaders: Author Dashboards to Fit Your District's Needs

As a K–12 leader, you know that data is at the heart of student success, guiding everything from classroom strategies to districtwide initiatives.The challenge isn’t collecting more data; it’s making that information work harder for you.

When educators have access to meaningful, real-time insights, it changes everything. Trends become clearer, conversations more focused, and decisions more confident. From monitoring student progress to understanding schoolwide patterns, the right data presented in the right way helps every staff member feel more connected to your district’s goals.

The key to unlocking that potential lies in empowering educators to explore, visualize, and understand their data without waiting on someone else to build it for them. It’s time to move from static reports to dynamic, self-authored dashboards that put control directly in your team’s hands.

Want to see how it works? Watch our latest video, Empowering K-12 Leaders: Author Dashboards to Fit Your District’s Needs, and see how districts are creating their own dashboards to make data-driven decisions faster and with greater confidence. 

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Beyond the Cookie-Cutter Dashboard Templates

Your district is unique—your data tools should be, too. A generic dashboard designed for "every district" simply can't capture your specific goals for attendance, behavior, or course scores.

This session is a direct follow-up to our popular webinar, Democratize Your District's Data: Empower Educators and Drive Student Success with K-12 Advanced Analytics, which featured the Saratoga Springs City School District (SSCSD). SSCSD shared how they've leveraged Mindex Advanced Analytics to introduce a more intuitive, integrated, and democratized approach to data analytics.

Now, we’re sharing a deeper dive into Mindex Advanced Analytics and the game-changing power of dashboard authoring.

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Dashboard Authoring: Data Control in Your Hands

You don't need a coding degree to build powerful visualizations. In this follow-up, we show off our Mindex Advanced Analytics base dashboards and demonstrate dashboard authoring, showing district leaders and school staff exactly how to:

  • Build and Customize: Create dashboards that perfectly reflect your district's unique needs and strategic priorities.
  • Empower Educators: Provide your teachers and principals with real-time, self-service analytics tools.
  • Visualize Key Metrics: Create visualizations for tracking attendance, behavior, assessments, early warning signs, and more.
  • Unify Siloed Data: Integrate third-party or siloed data sources for a truly unified view of every student.
  • Improve Collaboration: Generate tailored, shareable dashboards for better collaboration and decision-making.

You'll see how authoring your own dashboards can help move your district beyond static reports and enable more timely, data-driven action at every level.

A Seamless Integration with the Mindex K-12 Product Suite

The best part? Mindex Advanced Analytics was designed to integrate seamlessly with any Student Management System (SIS) your district uses, including Mindex's own SchoolTool. Beyond your core SIS, Advanced Analytics also integrates with other powerful Mindex K-12 solutions, such as ClearTrack for supporting special education and MTSS Edge for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), providing a complete data picture to support every type of student.

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Ready to Build Your Own Dashboards?

If your team is ready to stop wrestling with static reports and start creating powerful, personalized dashboards that accelerate student success, then this session is for you.

Watch now for our on-demand webinar, Empowering K-12 Leaders: Author Dashboards to Fit Your District's Needs, and discover how to put the power of analytics directly into the hands of your educators.
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