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 basis for decision making.
Stakeholders – will have access to a new approach that makes information relevant and facilitates informed decision making.
Faculty – will be empowered with new insights that strengthen teaching and learning.
Staff – will be empowered with new insights that strengthen student connections and student success.
Students – will have support, focus and direction, leading to greater success.

What We Do

We connect evidence-based data with education stakeholders — students, faculty, staff, 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.
Caring Campus/Bright Spots – Coaching colleges on specific behaviors leading to student engagement and success.
College Readiness and Success – Collaborating to analyze data, seek appropriate solutions and implement them well.

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, collaboration and coaching 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

Great turnout from classified professional staff who make Caring Campus such a success. IEBC President/CEO Brad Phillips gave the Caring Campus keynote, followed by meeting with dedicated supervisors at San Bernardino Valley College.

The ever-dynamic Brad Phillips, President/CEO of the Institute for Evidence-Based Change at the annual convention of California’s CCPRO (Community College Public Relations Organization) with an interactive workshop on “Telling Your Story with Data.”

The Mississippi Association of Institutional Researchers (MAIR) welcomed keynoter Brad Phillips, IEBC president/CEO who also presented workshops on Data Storytelling and Human Judgment and Decision Making.

Building a New Approach for Student Success The IEBC implementation of Caring Campus California has involved almost 500 community college classified professional staff participating in 51 on-site coaching sessions at 18 colleges. Their intentional staff/student engagement work is already reducing barriers to positive student outcomes. Read more here.

Featured Publications

The research is clear: If we want students to stay and succeed, we need to connect with them. Please check this article in the EvoLLLution magazine. I Don’t Care What You Know Until I Know You Care: Why Caring Campuses Retain More Students

Serendipity Leads to Student Success Thanks to IEBC Book. It’s one thing to write a book; it’s another to find out how many educators are putting it to work. In this interview with IEBC, Dr. Carley Dear of Mississippi, shares how Creating A Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges provided her with a better way to support her colleagues. Read more about Dr. Dear’s experience here.

Creating a Caring Campus The Caring Campus approach to increasing the engagement of classified staff and students uses an intense and intentional coaching model. Read more here.

Bright Spots faculty and staff are changing student lives with intentional impactful interventions helping stabilize enrollment and retention in the process.

Creating A Data-Informed Culture In Community Colleges, published by Harvard Education Press. Read what others are saying about this book.