Module 7 – Establishing Data Governance
Concepts
- Data governance uses people and processes to ensure effective collection, use, and protection of data.
- Data governance structures are key to ensuring student data privacy.
Objectives
- Explain the relationship between data privacy and data governance
- Review data governance elements
- Explore model policies and practices
- Add exemplars to action plans
Checklist
- Register for the webinar on Monday, September 28th 4:00 – 5:30 PM ET.
- Complete the individual activities by Friday, September 25th.
- Complete the group activities by Monday, September 21st.
- Email ttt@fpf.org if you have questions.
Follow Up
For missed webinars, watch the recording and send a paragraph (3-4 sentences) summarizing what you have learned to ttt@fpf.org with the subject line “TTT Module 7 Webinar”.
For missed assignments, email your completed individual activities and discussion group responses to ttt@fpf.org with the subject line “TTT Module 7 Individual Activity/Group Discussion”.
Webinar Registration
Register for the webinar below. Please note that registration is required to join.
There are no guest speakers for this webinar.
Activities
Individual Activities
- Review NCES’s Forum Guide to Data Governance
- Find this statement, fill in the blanks below, and provide three pieces of evidence that support the statement.
“Data governance is not about technology or tools but about _________ & _________.” - Are you a data owner and/or data steward (p.9)? Do you know who holds these roles in your agency?
- Find this statement, fill in the blanks below, and provide three pieces of evidence that support the statement.
- Compare NCES’s Forum Guide to Data Governance and SLDS’ Data Stewardship: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Electronic Student Education Records
- Which concepts included in the SLDS document are not included in the NCES document?
- Should they have been included? Why or why not?
- Email your completed Module 7 Activities in a Word or PDF document to ttt@fpf.org by September 25th and be prepared to discuss during our webinar.
Group Discussion
- Review the best practices in Chapter 3 of NCES’s Forum Guide to Data Governance (p. 19-21)
- What are the top three that should be enacted first?
- What are the top three most difficult to enact?
- What are the top three your agency most needs to enact?
- Using the NCES and SLDS documents, describe data governance using only three words (i.e., hard work, policies, structures). Describe the data governance for your agency in three words.
- Review the examples of data governance documents below.
- If you were tasked with establishing a data governance program in your organization, which documents would you find the most useful?
- Don’t forget to also add the documents to your online portfolio.
- Post your answers to your group’s channel (#sea-lea, #lawyers, or #teacher-prep) no later than Monday, September 21st.
- Please respond to others as they post.
Additional Resources
- NCES, Forum Guide to Data Governance
- SLDS, Data Stewardship: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Electronic Student Education Records
- Data Governance Sample Documents
- Kansas State Department of Education, Data Governance Program Handbook
- Louisiana Department of Education, PII Exception Authorization Request
- Louisiana Department of Education, Data Access Request
- Louisiana Department of Education, Employee Data Sharing and Confidentiality Agreement
- Louisiana Department of Education, Suppression Techniques
- Data Classification
