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T he P lan Create a data-driven environment that equips policymakers, superintendents, principals, teachers, and parents with the information and tools they need to advance student learning and success. Ensure superintendents, principals, and teachers are provided timely data and the support to effectively use this data to improve student achievement. • Develop a single statewide pre-K through postsecondary data warehouse containing data from multiple existing sources including student performance and demographic databases, teacher identification and demographic databases, financial databases, and formative and summative assessment databases. The data warehouse must provide information that is easily accessible and user friendly to principals, teachers, counselors, administrators, school board members, higher education institutions and (as appropriate) parents and students. • Reconfigure existing TVAAS, teacher effect, and other student achievement data reports to ensure they are transmitted electronically and easy for teachers to understand. • Ensure the Tennessee Department of Education directly provides all principals and teachers log-in information to the appropriate portions of the TVAAS database. • Provide additional online and in-person training to superintendents, principals, guidance counselors and teachers about how TVAAS works and how it and other assessment tests (e.g., PLAN and EXPLORE) can be effectively used to improve classroom instruction. • Identify options for reducing the turnaround time for grading assessment tests to allow TCAP and end-of-course exams to be given during the last four weeks of school. • Identify best practices for school readiness assessments for students in grades K-2. Over time, provide state funding for these new assessments and add an additional metric to the CCRPI report tracking student readiness on these assessments. • Negotiate a statewide contract for K-12 formative assessments that districts can purchase at a reduced price. Over time, provide state funding for these formative assessments. Assist schools with efforts to engage parents and help parents better understand how they can help their child succeed. • Create an easy-to-understand printout of each child’s student achievement data that includes projections of how a child is likely to perform in the future and ensure this printout is given to each 6