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 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
With an October 29 kickoff of San Diego and Imperial Counties districts/colleges, the Caring Campus initiative welcomed 80 representatives and the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s office for an intensive overview of this new approach to the involvement of classified staff and student success.
San Antonio, Texas, Monday, November 5 – IEBC vice president Jordan Horowitz will present his popular workshop on the Partnership of Concurrent Enrollment and Data at the upcoming National Conference of the National Association of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP). Reactions from a workshop earlier this year included… “I can’t believe I got so excited about analytics. Absolutely riveting”
In Baltimore, Maryland, IEBC President Brad Phillips, a longtime data coach for ATD colleges, joined the ATD Data Coaches working retreat.
Hawaii ART Data Institute IEBC president Bad Phillips enjoyed presenting workshops in Hawaii recently with dedicated educators. Data use is growing in Hawaii.
Brad Phillips of IEBC and Don Woods of Odessa College, Texas, co-presented on “Why it’s Better to Lead Than Lag: How Leading Indicators Can Drive Institutional Change” at the Achieving the Dream Plenary Session. Brad also presented the “Telling Your Story with Data” workshop.
Featured Publications
Creating a Caring Campus The new Caring Campus approach to increasing the engagement of classified staff and students uses a coaching model. Read more here.
Bright Spots faculty and staff are changing student lives with intentional impactful interventions.
Don’t Drown in Your Own Data IEBC Vice President Jordan Horowitz has identified five key lessons about using data that can cut through the clutter and hone in on what’s really important. Find out what those five lessons are here.
Finding it hard to go ‘All In’? Read “The Problems and Promise of Bringing Educational Interventions to Scale” by Brad Phillips in Medium.
Creating A Data-Informed Culture In Community Colleges, published by Harvard Education Press. Read what others are saying about this book.