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, 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

IEBC President/CEO Brad Phillips was honored to keynote the Mississippi Association of Institutional Research (MAIR) Conference as well as present workshops on Data Storytelling and Human Judgment and Decision Making based on the book Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges. It was a great group of IR/IE professionals.

Ascendium Education Group has awarded a $1 million dollar grant to the Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC) for the Caring Campus Initiative. The goal: Increase student retention and success in community colleges around the U.S.

Helping You Build A New Approach for Student Success Don’t miss the Spring IEBC newsletter with information about the $1 m dollar grant and interviews with Desi Marquez and Dr. Carley Dear.

Also, at the MAIR conference, IEBC President/CEO Brad Phillips facilitated a three hour session orienting Hinds College leaders to Guided Pathways. Hinds is Mississippi’s largest community college. A lot of progress was made by these college leaders!

Featured Publications

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 a coaching model. Read more here.

California Governor has proposed a new education data system, but it does not need to start from scratch, writes Brad Phillips in EdSource.

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.