There are four unique listservs that disseminate info about CALPADS. One is maintained by CSIS/FCMAT and serves as a Q & A forum for day-to-day users. The other three are "one-way" messaging systems and do not accept replies. A list of these and their intended audiences and access instructions is below:
| "CALPADS" listservs | Intended Audience | Access Instructions |
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1. "CSIS-LS" Lot's of back-and-forth messages from CALPADS Coordinators |
Individuals who work on a daily basis with all aspects of the system, including preparing data for upload, working with various SIS systems, resolving errors, and validating/verifying data. The group is open to all local school district CALPADS administrators and usually has around 200 active participants. This is a lively back-and-forth discussion forum with roughly 25 to 50 email messages going back and forth each day. It is advisable to use a secondary email account just for this listserv or to create some rules within your email filter to sort these messages into their own folder. | https://csis.fcmat.org/Pages/Listserv.aspx |
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2. "CALPADS-LEA" Only official information |
According to the CDE website, "The CALPADS-LEA listserv is a private listserv restricted to LEAs. All requests for membership will be reviewed before approval is granted." This is one of the official channels in which "Flash" updates from CDE regarding CALPADS is disseminated. Generally anyone who is the LEA CALPADS Coordinator should be on this list to receive deadline information, product improvement updates, known issues updates, and new data requirement updates. (Note to CDE - Since this is official information already posted on the CDE site, and not priviliged info in any way, it might make sense to open access of this list up a bit too! That way we can assign a unique email address to it (e.g. |
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/cl/listservs.asp |
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3. "CALPADS-SIS-VENDORS" Only official information |
"The CALPADS-SIS-VENDORS listserv provides information relevant to the development and implementation of CALPADS to Student Information System (SIS) vendors and LEAs utilizing custom-designed SISs. This listserv is an open listserv with no membership restrictions." This listserv provides an opportunity to understand how changes in the CALPADS system may impact your student information system (e.g. Aeries, PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Illuminate SIS, and others). There is usually a monthly vendor conference call as well, that is usually attended by representatives of those companies (when it hasn't been cancelled). |
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/cl/listservs.asp |
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4. "CASEMIS-TO-CALPADS" Only official information |
"The CASEMIS-TO-CALPADS listserv disseminates information to LEAs regarding the transition from the California Special Education Management Information System (CASEMIS) to CALPADS. This listserv is an open listserv with no membership restrictions. " Since the CASEMIS data is scheduled to "morph" into CALPADS at some point in the 2019-2020 time-frame, it would make sense for Special Education leaders and CALPADS Coordinators to participate in this listserv in order to anticipate these changes in how SPed data is captured, stored, and reported. | http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/cl/listservs.asp |