Education Analytics

Since she joined EA in 2022, Office Manager Anna Geisthardt has made significant improvements to our office space to make it feel more comfortable and welcoming for our staff, external partners, and board members. Whether she is coordinating an office reorganization, planning a staff-wide event, or curating the office to better fit with EA’s brand, Anna remains a creative and dedicated influence at EA. To better understand the full scope of what office and administrative management looks like at EA, we talked with Anna about her work on the Administrative Services team and her experiences at EA. Read Anna’s insights in our latest blog and share! https://lnkd.in/gQrjjn9d

The Winter Solstice is Saturday, and we wanted to share some winter wonderland photos taken by EA staff of the beautiful city of Madison! ❄️

From all of us at Education Analytics, we wish everyone a joyful holiday season!

Join us in celebrating 12 years of Education Analytics! We're proud to provide our partners, #educators, administrators, and district leaders with rigorous #analytics and #research that supports actionable solutions and drives continuous improvement within the #education system. And a huge thank you to our talented and passionate staff who make it possible for us to continue our impactful work, year after year!

Our “Day in the Life” #blog series, launched in early 2024, shines a spotlight on the people who make EA a great place to work. During the past year, we've had the privilege of featuring team members from numerous departments, including Analyst, Brand & Communications, Engineering, Finance & Accounting, Partner Strategy, Product & Development Operations, and Program Operations teams. This series celebrates their unique contributions and the meaningful work they do every day to drive our mission forward. To wrap up 2024, we compiled a short recap of of the year in "Day in the Life" blogs! Read the full blog below and share!  https://lnkd.in/grPnaQXR

EA's Impact Division brings together People Operations, Administrative Services, and Brand & Communications to support our mission and drive meaningful change. This team plays a vital role in fostering a positive and inclusive culture, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations, and amplifying our message to the world.     Last week, the team came together to connect and reflect for a winter celebration, including lunch from local Marigold Cafe and a #PaintByNumbers activity.    Can you guess what everyone is painting so far? 

Check out the latest blog on our website by Chief of Staff Libby Pier and CEO Andrew Rice!  Libby and Andrew discuss the lessons we’ve learned as EA has worked to build a technology-forward #research organization. They describe the cultural differences that can cause #researchers and #technologists to talk past each other and highlight how commonalities can help transform the #education field into an information-rich, evidence-driven space. “If we want to not just ‘bridge’ but truly integrate these fields, we must start viewing researchers and technologists as two equally critical ingredients needed to build a high-quality ed tech product.” Read Libby and Andrew’s insights below, and please share with your networks!  https://lnkd.in/gfD3uGn5 

Congratulations to EA's Chief of Staff, Libby Pier, who was recently selected to serve as a mentor at SXSW EDU 2025! 🎉

For this holiday season, we’re excited to give the gift of #data #security, #privacy, #interoperability, partnership, and #research to the #educators, district leaders and administrators, and partner organizations that we are fortunate enough to work with! What gifts are you looking forward to giving this holiday season? Let us know in the comments below! 🎁

Be sure to check out one of our most-read posts of the year! Two years after the release of #ChatGPT, EA’s CEO Andrew Rice reflects on how generative #AI needs to remain in the public’s control to best serve the #education field. He calls for collaboration among #educators, technologists, and policymakers to build publicly-owned, #interoperable #data structures and AI tools that prioritize #privacy and standardization. “Transformational change in education won’t come about by only using generic generative AI tools like ChatGPT, but rather by providing educators and administrators with tools that leverage the data specific to their own context,” Andrew writes. “Just like an office worker’s daily work may be enhanced by AI ‘layered over’ their email, calendar, team chat, policy documents, and more—so too might a teacher’s daily work be transformed by AI ‘layered over’ their students’ attendance data, gradebook, assessment scores, and more.”  Read Andrew’s insights below and please share with your networks!  https://lnkd.in/gnQtfuGP