This workshop presents attendees with several challenges common to student-serving programs and discusses the ways that Breakthrough New York (BTNY) is attempting to address those problems. In particular, BTNY staff has created systems to collect and organize information in ways that make it easier for line staff to engage in data collection and reporting without losing student support as their primary focus. By showcasing several real problems and different iterations of the solution process, participants will gain a window into how to begin to address the need to continue running a program while continually updating processes to make incremental improvements.
Guiding Questions:
1) How do programs engage their full staff in the process of collecting, organizing, and
reporting data?
2) How does an organization approach building new data-oriented systems (or improving
old ones) within the context of running year-round programming?
3) How does your organization envision using data you collect with newly
implemented data systems? How would these new data systems save time and effort within your program? What are some potential pitfalls or pushback you anticipate to encounter when implementing new systems, and how do you plan to address them?