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
September 6. 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 on Sept. 6. The presentation focused on the leading indicators that were used to drive change at award-winning Odessa College. Also on Sept. 6, the very popular IEBC workshop, “Telling Your Story with Data” was presented by Brad Phillips.
IEBC President Brad Phillips keynoted Victor Valley College’s “All College Day” on Sept. 7 and presented a follow-up World Café workshop on the same day: “The Caring College,” a new approach to student engagement.
Bright Spots faculty and staff are changing student lives with intentional impactful interventions.
In Michigan, at Delta College, Brad Phillips recently gave the keynote at their Learning Days all-staff convocation. He introduced Bright Spots and praised the college’s great work on increasing student engagement.
August 18 found IEBC’s Brad Phillips and Jordan Horowitz presenting a Professional Development Workshop at the Claremont Evaluation Center (CEC) at Claremont Graduate University on “Increasing the Usefulness of Formative Evaluation: Integrating Leading and Lagging Indicators.”
Featured Publications
From the IEBC newsletter: 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.
Cuyamaca College turned to evaluation research to maximize its Guided Pathways outcomes under its five-year HSI STEM grant. Read more to find out how Cuyamaca’s experience pinpointed positive outcomes during the STEM Summer Boot Camp enabling action to be taken during the program rather than waiting for the next session.
Creating A Data-Informed Culture In Community Colleges, published by Harvard Education Press. Read what others are saying about the book, and preview the first chapter “If You Build Good Systems, the Answers Will Come… Right?”