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The use of data to screen, progress monitor, and take meaningful action for students is foundational to multi-tiered systems of support.

Yet, many districts struggle to align data systems—also known as "data interoperability"—when implementing MTSS.

What is data interoperability? By definition, it is “the seamless, secure, and controlled exchange of data between applications.” In simpler terms, it means getting your data systems to talk to each other so that educators can leverage data to respond to students’ needs.

The promise of interoperability looms large in strategic plans for MTSS, but the reality on the ground is that educators are using spreadsheets, forms, ad-hoc reports, and multiple data systems to make decisions about how to support their students.

That’s why Morris School District (NJ) has prioritized data interoperability on its journey to provide personalized learning experiences for each and every student.

"We think the true promise of education is data interoperability. We've crafted our organizational chart around data interoperability and worked for the last three years on making it a reality. With interoperability, the whole idea is you can marshal all the resources of a system to meet the individual needs of each student."

– Mackey Pendergrast, Superintendent, Morris School District

Here are the district’s four steps to achieving interoperability.

1. Maintain clean data on students’ mastery of standards, and bring it into one spot.

First, it's important to gather data that tells you exactly where students are in their academic journeys. For example, Morris School District uses a standards-based curriculum and collects robust data to monitor student progress towards those standards.

The district then brings all of those student metrics—across grades, assessments, behavior, attendance, and social skills—into one place. Administrators, teachers, and staff have access to the same data in the same spot instead of needing to spend hours analyzing spreadsheets to diagnose student needs.

“We want to ensure that our dozens and dozens of student metrics are coming into the same place—from mastery of standards, to active engagement in our community," said Mackey Pendergrast, superintendent of Morris School District, on a recent webinar. "These data points can tell us exactly where a student is in their learning and what steps they need to take to reach their destination."

2. Build habits around using the data within multi-tiered systems of support.

Once you have meaningful data, the next step is to create habits and expectations for using it to support students. Is every educator in the building looking at the data in the same way and using it to inform instructional practices?

This means carving out daily and weekly opportunities for staff to access the data and discuss it. Provide professional development to train staff on how to look for evidence in the data rather than make assumptions.

3. Broaden your data sources to include social-emotional learning.

For most districts, the core purpose of multi-tiered systems of support is to understand and respond to every student's unique story. We can't do that without considering the social and emotional aspects of learning; research shows that SEL correlates positively with academic and behavioral success in school.

To get a true picture of the whole child, it's important to gather data on students' social-emotional skills and mindsets in the same way that you track academic performance, attendance, and behavior. Morris School District collects SEL data through student surveys, combines it with academic and behavioral data points, and helps teachers and staff work with this SEL data to support students.

4. Mobilize your entire system to respond to the data.

For Superintendent Pendergrast, the fourth and final step of interoperability goes beyond aligning data systems. You know that you've achieved interoperability when there is a sense of collective efficacy—when the whole system is working together to help students overcome obstacles like trauma, equity, and poverty.

"Do you have your entire system—your counselors, administrators, teachers, parents, and students—responding to these data points?" Pendergrast said. "This is when you’ve reached data interoperability. Is it all coherent and interdependent to meet the needs of the individual child?"

Is data interoperability a challenge in your school or district? Schedule a conversation with us to learn how Panorama is streamlining the MTSS work at Morris School District.

'Be where your customers are' is a marketing watchword, and rightly so. But with so many channels, it can seem daunting. So here are some strategies to help you out.

By Pritom Das

March 23, 2020

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Be where your customers are. From the beginning of business and marketing, that has been the key to making sales and building a loyal customer base. Never before, however, has it been as difficult to fulfill that requirement as it is today. There's simply such a diversity of places where customers congregate that it's practically impossible to cover all the bases.

At the same time, though, the rewards for effective marketing across all customer touchpoints have never been as high as they are today. In this study by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, 90% of customers said they expect a consistent experience across all platforms, and that consistency is sure to be rewarded with increased customer loyalty. So the question is, does this provide an opportunity for your business, or an obstacle?

Map your customer journey

The first thing you need to do in getting your message across to customers effectively is to identify exactly where your customers spend their time and which platforms are most influential in their buying decisions.

The reason for this is that although reaching out to your customers on every single social media platform and marketing channel is ideal, it's impossible even for the biggest companies. What you can and must do, however, is to conduct an analysis of your customer (and potential customers) base to determine which platforms to focus your resources on.

After choosing your channels and launching your campaigns, it's equally important to track your results and identify exactly what is working and what isn't. It's easy to get drowned in a multitude of metrics`, and small businesses must avoid that. Instead, identify the ones with clear impact on your bottom line and make your decisions based on those.

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Automate, but actively monitor feedback

Marketing automation is a huge time saver. When you're posting across multiple platforms, it can seem easy to run out of content since you must stay active across all of them. Automation is a good way to fix the problem. You can create content weeks and even months in advance and schedule it to go up regularly.

There are many scheduling services you can use depending on the particular platforms you're operating in, but most of them do the same thing so your choice will mostly boil down to preference.

Social listening is crucial though. It's the need to monitor all your accounts and track what's happening to your brand every single second. Nowadays, reputations can be made or broken in minutes on social media, so you have to be ready to jump on any opportunity to go viral for the right reasons or to nip any potential PR disaster in the bud.

For small businesses that can't afford to have staff solely focused on social media, it's still important to assign the task of monitoring your social media profile to a specific team member. That way, they can be responsible for getting alerts and taking prompt action when necessary.

Maintain a visually consistent content strategy

Visual marketing is ever more crucial as each day passes. Several studies, including this one by Content Marketing Institute, have shown that visual content such as images, videos and infographics are crucial in imprinting your brand in the minds of customers and making it easy for them to identify and engage with your content.

The easiest way to do this is by getting social media templates made and then resizing them to fit the dimensions required by different platforms. That way, whether you're posting business insights or birthday quotes regularly, for instance, your audience will begin to automatically associate the design template and even the content type with your brand. That'll increase your brand authority significantly.

You might need to tweak the positioning of certain elements to be sure they show up well in the various designs, but the key is just to make sure you have easy-to-edit templates you can use to create content without too much hassle.

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Cross-pollinate your accounts

If you're like most people, you're very active on one or two platforms and have only the barest minimum activity on others. The same goes for most of your customers, which is why referencing all your accounts is crucial to boosting your audience everywhere.

Someone might encounter your content on one of the sites where they aren't too active, check you out, follow or even engage with your posts. Then they might log out and not hear anything from you again for months or years – not because you aren't posting, but because they don't follow you on the platforms where they are usually active.

The solution to that problem, according to research, is to reference your other accounts and direct your followers to them as much as possible. That way, people will know exactly where they can find you and get the chance to connect with you with only a couple of clicks. People can then easily keep track and engage with your content where it's most convenient for them.

Of course, the more convenient it is, the more people will do it, and the more engagement you have, the more sales and profits you'll likely be making. That's the entire point of multichannel marketing and why you should start it now.

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  What are the steps for multi step equations?

  Solving Multi-Step Equations.

  (Optional) Multiply to clear any fractions or decimals..

  Simplify each side by clearing parentheses and combining like terms..

  Add or subtract to isolate the variable term—you may have to move a term with the variable..

  Multiply or divide to isolate the variable..

  Check the solution..

  What is the example of multi step?

  Multi-step equations are algebraic expressions that require more than one operation, such as subtraction, addition, multiplication, division, or exponentiation, to solve. It is important to know about the order of operations when solving multi-step equations. Solve 2 x + 4 = 10 2x + 4 = 10 2x+4=10 for x.

  What does multi step mean in math?

  A multi-step equation is an equation that takes two or more steps to solve. These problems can have a mix of addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. We also might have to combine like terms or use the distributive property to properly solve our equations.

  What is the first step in solving multi step equations?

  1) Remove the two parentheses on both sides of the linear equation by applying the Distributive Property of Multiplication over Addition. 2) Combine the constants on both sides.