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That continuum of education.Traci Stanley, oversees Christopher House’s agency-wide database system to track student outcomes — data that’s used to assess programs and suggest improvements. MIT Sloan Management Review guest editor Sam Ransbotham spoke to Lori Baas and Traci Stanley about how data informs Christopher House’s educational program. We’ve done interviews with other organizations that have the classic corporate model. You’re obviously quite different. But you are very data-focused. Was the initial founding of the organization around data, or has this focus on data emerged over the last 10 or 15 years? Lori Baas: It has emerged over the last 10 years. It started with our board of directors, who were saying, “Lori, you tell us Christopher House has one of the best early childhood programs in the city.

  
How do we know? Tell us what you’re basing that information on. Or you say we’re increasing kids’ grades in elementary school. How do you know?” So we first started internally — creating or identifying tools to use for assessments, so we’d be able to present that data to our board, to . But, then it also evolved as an organizational conversation about how we Job Function Email List compare with other organizations in the city. TAGS: Collaboration Education Knowledge Sharing REPRINT 7108 More Like This Set Ambitious but Realistic Environmental Goals Mix Creativity With the Right Mindset to Serve Up Innovation Helping Others at Work Without Burning Out How ChatGPT Can and Can’t Help Managers Design Better Job Roles You must sign in to post a comment. First time here? Sign up for a free account: Comment on articles and get access to many more articles.



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