“In an era when schools are preparing students for life in a global competitive field, we need new kinds of information in real time to help make informed teaching decisions that will increase students’ knowledge and their creative potential. EDLIGO is the only modern solution that addresses the challenge of needing to clearly see the myriad of variables inside and outside the classroom for the purpose of effective planning for the learning and teaching process. Teachers and school leaders in our district are now experiencing breakthrough moments as we continuously use data in our decision making process.”

EDLIGO is the most comprehensive data dashboard I have ever observed. Given the most important factor influencing student achievement, a guaranteed and viable curriculum (Marzano, 2000), this software allows teachers and leaders to efficiently and effectively monitor the distribution and mastery of the standards. Not only does EDLIGO provide analytics for data, but it provides mapping capabilities so that curriculum directors, principals and superintendents can view when the standards will be taught on a calendar while providing teachers with a template to distribute the standards into lessons. Most importantly, this software houses student profile information on students so that teachers can begin planning by looking at the strengths and opportunities facing students as they begin units of instruction. Furthermore, this software shows cause and effect data so that as the standards are taught, educators can view the effects of various resources and instructional strategies that were most effective for internal program evaluations. An added beauty of EDLIGO is that it shows correlations from PISA data to forecast actionable plans for school improvement. In my opinion, EDLIGO will become the educational industry standard for data analysis in the 21st Century.