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
Don’t miss this webinar – May 1 is around the corner. Register now for strategies to use right away: Five Evidence-Based Tips for Making Your Data Useful, Usable and Actionable.
Kay McClenney and Brad Phillips team up coaching for Achieving the Dream in Austin Texas.
The Faculty Engagement in Guided Pathways webinar was designed for community colleges looking to jump start their work; engage faculty throughout the process; and support general education in Guided Pathways Implementation. The webinar and the PowerPoint slides are available here.
Got Data Use? YES! Brad Phillips, IEBC president/CEO has been working with the very engaged Hawaii educators. “They are STARS,” he says. “OHANA!”
IEBC workshops are in high demand, including The Psychology of Data Use, Leading and Lagging Indicators, Telling Your Story with Data, and Integrating Data into a Meeting. Find out more in Student Success and Data Use.
Featured Publications
Contra Costa College Turns To Innovative Thinking About Data Use. Rather than relying on anecdotal experiences to make significant decisions, and based on Ken Sherwood’s prior experience, Contra Costa College brought in IEBC to support faculty and staff on how to use their data to be more effective. Sherwood says it didn’t take long for educators to become enthusiastic about the value of data-driven decisions. He describes the partnership in this interview.
When transcript typos stand in the way of college In a commentary in EdSource, IEBC Senior Director of IT and Analytics John Watson sheds light on an interrupted pathway. Minding the small and ordinary can make an extraordinary difference for students.
Based on decades of working with colleges across the country on using data strategically, Creating A Data-Informed Culture In Community Colleges, written by IEBC’s Brad C. Phillips and Jordan E. Horowitz, and published by Harvard Education Press, is available online and in bookstores. Read why readers are calling it “a must read” and click here for a discount order form.