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Topics we welcome

We welcome articles, blog posts, and comments on the following topics:

  • Accountability
  • Administration
  • Assessment
  • Attendance Reporting
  • Back-Office Automation
  • Benchmarks
  • California
  • CALPADS
  • Career Development
  • CBEDS
  • Charter Schools
  • Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)
  • CNIPS
  • Data Analysis
  • ELPAC
  • Ethnicity Reporting
  • Formative Assessment
  • Best Practices / Headaches
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology
  • Job Descriptions
  • K–12 Enterprise Systems
  • KPIs
  • Professional Development
  • SAT / ACT Tests
  • SBAC / CAASPP
  • Small Districts
  • Staff Assignments
  • Staff Demographics
  • Student Assessment Systems
  • Student Information Systems
  • Student Privacy
  • Student Programs
  • Summative Assessment
  • Systems Integration
  • Teacher Evaluation
  • Teaching / Curriculum
  • Technology Issues
  • Transcripts

Registered User Submission and Posting Policy

SchoolDataLeadership.org welcomes submissions of files (for example, PDF files, Word documents, and spreadsheets), blog posts, questions and answers, and articles that promote the effective use and management of technology and related support systems in California K–12 schools. The site is a “mash-up,” or convergence of ideas, related to assessment, district enterprise systems, technology support, software integration, data analysis, digital dashboards, and anything else that strikes our fancy.

Our contributors are mainly California K–12 school administrators, teachers, and staff, with a few parents thrown in for good measure (many of us are both parents and educators). Most of us are already active members of CITE, CUE, CTA, ACSA, CABE, etc., but are interested in addressing “cross-team” or “cross-departmental” concerns that might not yet have an active home in those other spaces.

We believe that our site benefits from a wide range of authentic opinions from educators, experts, novices, technology enthusiasts, and more. We welcome registered users to join our conversations with contributions that will serve the interests of our audience. However, we do not accept submissions from contributors whose sole purpose is link sharing or advertising. We are interested in your voice, not someone else’s!

To remain an “honest broker,” we do not accept targeted advertisements from vendors. Ultimately, SchoolDataLeadership.org reserves the right to refuse content and remove links and bios from submitted posts if we deem the content to be outside the collective goals and standards of the community.

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Submitting and Publishing Content

We accept articles on a case-by-case basis unless another agreement has been established between SchoolDataLeadership.org and the contributor.

  • Write an original guest post in 1,000 words or less.
  • Provide a descriptive and accurate title for the post that speaks to the content.
  • Include the contributor’s contact information—first name and last name, title, and Twitter handle.
  • Disclose any conflicts of interest (for example, if you work for a particular vendor or organization).
  • Optional: Submit quality photos that relate to the article in JPG, PNG, or SVG format at a size of 300 by 300 pixels.
  • Authors may submit original or personal photos, graphics, diagrams, etc. to be used within the text. Photos and graphics created by other individuals or companies must be listed with one of the following Creative Commons licenses: Attribution (CC BY), Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND), or Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).

Upon submission, review, and approval, SchoolDataLeadership.org will publish the submission to www.schooldataleadership.org.

Terms and Disclosure

SchoolDataLeadership.org does not provide or guarantee compensation for content submissions. Any content submitted by our users remains the property of the original contributor. Uploading content to the site indicates either (A) that you are the contributor of the content or (B) that the content is in the public domain and that SchoolDataLeadership.org has the right to access, modify, update, post, and distribute it.

SchoolDataLeadership.org reserves the right to edit content, spelling, grammar, etc. SchoolDataLeadership.org also reserves the right to refuse to publish any works submitted for review for reasons it is not obligated to disclose. Reasons for rejecting a guest article include, but are not limited to:

  • Inaccurate information or facts
  • Excessive grammatical or spelling errors
  • Irrelevance to the site’s existing content, theme, or focus
  • Product promotion, marketing language, or sales pitches

SchoolDataLeadership.org also reserves the right to remove any published works from www.schooldataleadership.org without prior warning or explanation. All original content submitted by the contributor will remain the contributor’s intellectual property.

By submitting content for review, you agree to the terms outlined in this Registered User Submission and Posting Policy. SchoolDataLeadership.org reserves the right to change this Registered User Submission and Posting Policy at any time.