Chris Baugh [email protected] ~ 757.715.0919 mobile ~ 215.923.4961 home ~ Philadelphia, PA Objective Bring a pragmatic and enthusiastic approach to the development, management and analysis of educational data. Professional Experience 2010 – Current School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Development Coordinator - Office of Accountability, Assessment & Performance Targets Responsibilities & Essential Functions · Maintain and monitor assessment programs, ensuring data quality in coordination with the Offices of Educational Technology and Information Technology and outside vendors and agencies, including counterparts in the Pennsylvania Department of Education, SchoolNet, CTB/McGraw-Hill and the Data Recognition Corporation, publishers of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). · Author reports on assessment performance, student achievement and other core accountability indicators, including analysis of Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) results for several audiences, such as central offices, schools, regions, state and local governments, media and general public. · Develop and maintain accountability and assessment technologies for use in data reporting, data processing, and data utilization; MS-SQL, Access, Excel, SPSS. · Provide staff leadership, professional development and expertise in support of district projects between multiple district offices as well as with outside agencies. Key Accomplishments · Developed PSSA Data Visualization system to improve accuracy of PSSA data reporting and enrich the analysis of multiple datasets by leveraging lightweight, industry- standard information technologies for use in the educational management environment. · Principle architect and project manager for the COMPSTAT reporting system, which allowed the Office of School Safety (OSS) to improve the accuracy of key school climate indices; reduced the amount of time spent on-task by OSS staff tasked with producing routine executive-level reports from several days to a matter of minutes. · Worked in partnership with the Superintendent's office and City of Philadelphia technical offices to develop the analytic systems used to identify schools for conversion to the Renaissance turn-around model using state, local and city datasets; the resulting report was presented to C-level staff for finalization and adoption. · Lead author and principle investigator for the district's response to allegations of testing irregularities that took place in the administration of the 2009 PSSA test; developed an analytical model that further refined existing data analysis from the testing vendor and produced actionable findings for future investigations into testing irregularity.
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Chris Baugh [email protected] ~ 757.715.0919 mobile ~ 215.923.4961 home ~ Philadelphia, PA Objective
Bring a pragmatic and enthusiastic approach to the development, management and analysis of educational data.
Professional Experience
2010 – Current School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Development Coordinator - Office of Accountability, Assessment & Performance Targets
Responsibilities & Essential Functions · Maintain and monitor assessment programs, ensuring data quality in coordination with the Offices of Educational Technology and Information Technology and outside vendors and agencies, including counterparts in the Pennsylvania Department of Education, SchoolNet, CTB/McGraw-Hill and the Data Recognition Corporation, publishers of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). · Author reports on assessment performance, student achievement and other core accountability indicators, including analysis of Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) results for several audiences, such as central offices, schools, regions, state and local governments, media and general public. · Develop and maintain accountability and assessment technologies for use in data reporting, data processing, and data utilization; MS-SQL, Access, Excel, SPSS. · Provide staff leadership, professional development and expertise in support of district projects between multiple district offices as well as with outside agencies.
Key Accomplishments · Developed PSSA Data Visualization system to improve accuracy of PSSA data reporting and enrich the analysis of multiple datasets by leveraging lightweight, industry-standard information technologies for use in the educational management environment. · Principle architect and project manager for the COMPSTAT reporting system, which allowed the Office of School Safety (OSS) to improve the accuracy of key school climate indices; reduced the amount of time spent on-task by OSS staff tasked with producing routine executive-level reports from several days to a matter of minutes. · Worked in partnership with the Superintendent's office and City of Philadelphia technical offices to develop the analytic systems used to identify schools for conversion to the Renaissance turn-around model using state, local and city datasets; the resulting report was presented to C-level staff for finalization and adoption. · Lead author and principle investigator for the district's response to allegations of testing irregularities that took place in the administration of the 2009 PSSA test; developed an analytical model that further refined existing data analysis from the testing vendor and produced actionable findings for future investigations into testing irregularity.
2008 – 2009 PA Dept. of Education/Delaware County Intermediate Unit, PA
Educational Technology Coordinator, School Improvement Project
Responsibilities & Essential Functions · Coordinate with School Improvement team to support technical efforts on the grant-funded Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) contract; to include developing data analysis resources and delivery of key data reports to multiple stakeholders. · Coordinate data sharing projects with PDE Bureau of Accountability and Assessment and PDE contractors, to include IU13-PVAAS team and SAS Business Analytics. · Design and maintain assessment reporting systems on NCLB data metrics; Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System (PVAAS). Key Accomplishments · Served as the technical representative on several state-level committees related to Accountability, Assessment, and Data Reporting. · Authored professional development and online training supports for the 1000+ school-teams using the Getting Results school improvement model; to include several on-demand training videos, dynamic data tools, and structured organization of communication & training materials. 2007 – 2008 Suffolk Public Schools, Suffolk, VA
Supervisor of Technology, Information Services & Systems
2000 - 2007 Suffolk Public Schools, Suffolk, VA
Technology Integrator, Information Services & Systems
Responsibilities & Essential Functions · Coordinate with departmental administrators to meet information services and support needs for 21 schools and 3 district offices; to include daily information services operations, student information systems, educational research, and strategic planning. · Administer accountability systems for local, state and federal reporting. · Develop and manage technical aspects of the local assessment systems, to include instrument development, assessment delivery, and performance reporting systems. · Supervise the Information Services technical team within the district Technology Center; responsible for coordinating tier 1 to 3 support and training for multiple systems involving 700+ staff and 15,000+ students. · Coordinate with administration in the design, analysis and delivery of student performance data to multiple stakeholders; to include executive summaries and the public. · Participate in strategic planning; projects include division-wide online assessment for NCLB accountability, reporting systems for data-driven decision making, payroll and human resources application automation, web-based teacher gradebooks, online student transcripts/course requests.
· Manage technology integration projects between district and vendors while reporting progress directly to Director of Technology and district executive team. Key Accomplishments · Created an online state-standards assessment system that encompassed measuring student achievement in real-time and reporting performance data for parents, teachers, principals and central office staff for the purpose of targeted remediation, instructional and curricular adjustment. The SOLO system (Standards Of Learning Online) reduced the district's assessment cycles from 1 semester to 1 week while improving the overall quality of the data and instructional decision-making. · Created a data warehouse that integrated district data from multiple sources into a single reporting suite. The result of blending student performance data and demographic data within the larger context of our organizational data systems (NCLB-funded programs, special education, transportation, guidance & safety office) gave administrators access to reporting that supported their decision-making and could be incorporated into single-year and multi-year studies. · Personally developed, implemented, trained and supported several core organizational intranet applications to replace time-consuming manual procedures. Noticeable gains in data accuracy were made with shorter processing time and improved accountability. Technical Skills
Enterprise-Level Information Systems: Student Information Systems (including eSchoolPlus, Pentamation, SASI, ACHIEVE), Online Gradebook-Report Card (including GradeSpeed), Employee Services Intranet Portal, Educational Data Reporting Systems (including SchoolNet), experience with Extract,Transform,Load (ETL) and Quality Assurance (QA) tasks
Training & Productivity Applications: Adobe Acrobat/InDesign, Camtasia, Elluminate
Data Management, Reporting & Analysis: MS-SQL Server, MS Access, SPSS, Cognos, Microsoft Sharepoint Services
Web Coding & Scripting: ASP/ADO, XML/AJAX (jquery), Javascript, CSS, Visual Basic for Applications
Infrastructure: MS Server 2008, Internet Information Server 6.0+, Active Directory
Education
1998 – 2000 Virginia Polytechnic Institute
M.A. Ed. Educational & Instructional Technology/Instructional System Design
Lead Database Developer/Graduate Research Assistant – Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming (CAEEP)
1996 – 2000 Virginia Polytechnic Institute
M.A. English Literature and Language
1991 – 1995 Virginia Polytechnic Institute
B.A. Liberal Arts: English/History
Professional Awards
Awarded 2007 – Virginia Educational Technology Leader of the Year, Region II