Informing Decisions • Improving Practice • Increasing Student Success
Value We Provide
We provide value in these key ways.
- You – will have valuable information to use as a foundation for decision making.
- Stakeholders – will have access to easy-to-use tools that make information relevant and facilitate informed decisions.
- Faculty – will be empowered with new insights that strengthen teaching and learning.
- Students – will have support, focus and direction, leading to greater success.
What We Do
We connect evidence-based data with education stakeholders — students, faculty, administrators, policymakers, funders, and others — to support academic success and measurable improvements in education for all students. We focus on these three key areas:
- Data Use – Understanding data and using it to help students succeed.
- College Readiness and Success – Collaborating to analyze data, seek appropriate solutions and implement them well.
- Analytics/Research – IEBC systems capture and produce information that is useful, useable and actionable.
Who We Are
IEBC is a nationally-recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to helping education stakeholders — K-12 school systems, community colleges, universities, employers and others — use evidence-based data and collaboration to make informed decisions and craft solutions that improve practice and dramatically increase student success.
Our knowledgeable and personable team includes a wide range of respected leaders, researchers, analysts, academicians, and consultants with advanced degrees in valuable disciplines.
What’s Happening
Welcome! We hope you find our website interesting and useful and return often.
Have you seen our latest newsletter? Read it here.
Participating, presenting, listening and always learning more, IEBC is around the country.
The National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) begins this week in Washington, D.C. and includes a half-day pre-conference Program Evaluation Workshop. The panel includes Jordan Horowitz of IEBC. Read more here.
The Ed Trust—West’s Convening included IEBC’s John Watson and Janine Bocciardi in a forum on A-G readiness. Read more here and in our newsletter article on A-G Challenges.
The IEBC Curriculum to Career Choices (CtCC) team of John Yopp, Marianne Wokeck, Jean Petty and Brad Phillips, heads to Texas for continued work with the Alamo Colleges’ faculty to align student learning outcomes with career competencies. This effort is part of the Curriculum to Career Choices (CtCC) work that supports Smart Pathways of study for colleges engaged in Pathways work.
IEBC workshops are in high demand, particularly workshops on Leading and Lagging Indicators, Telling Your Story with Data, and How to Integrate Data into a Meeting. Read Why it is Better to Lead Than Lag: Leading and Lagging Indicators for Education, or check out our customized workshops at Student Success and Data Use.
Featured Publications
Based on decades of working with colleges across the country on using data strategically, Creating A Data-Informed Culture In Community Colleges: A New Model For Educators, written by IEBC’s Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz, is now available from Harvard Education Press. The education community is responding with praise. Read our latest newsletter for what others are saying and click here for a discount order form.
Ashley A. Smith’s article, “Creating Data Faculty Can Use” is a Q&A with Brad Phillips and Jordan Horowitz about the new book. Despite having a wealth of information, colleges still struggle to use data in the best way possible so they can help their students succeed. Read the interview here.
IEBC’s Curriculum to Career Choices (CtCC) SmartPathways is a faculty-led process that is assisting community colleges in developing and implementing Guided Pathways that ensure their students are college and career ready. Read more about the need for SmartPathways and how they work.
The Blog of Harvard Education Publishing. Moving the Needle on Community College Student Success by IEBC President/CEO Brad C. Phillips and Vice President Jordan Horowitz. Read it here.