The Descriptive Dashboard: Telling Your Story | Starts September 1, 2026 | 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM
This professional learning session equips educators and district leaders to use Descriptive Dashboards as a powerful tool for telling their district’s story and engaging stakeholders in today’s changing accountability environment, inclusive of A-F ranking, APR and other systems.
Gain a clear understanding of the purpose, structure and key components of Descriptive Dashboards, including High School Readiness and College, Career and Workplace Readiness performance indicators, while learning how real-time interim assessment data provides timely, actionable insights for continuous improvement.
Through guided exploration of live dashboard examples, common language and reporting practices, build the skills to navigate and interpret data, build a descriptive dashboard, align dashboards with district initiatives such as the CIF/CSIP and effectively communicate student progress and impact to internal and external audiences.
Meeting dates:
September 1, 2026
October 29, 2026
December 9, 2026
Dr. Charles J. Pearson is an educational consultant, author, and speaker with 35 years in urban education, including 21 years as a teacher and 14 as a district leader. He has served as a Curriculum Coordinator, Principal, Assistant Superintendent, and Superintendent of the Normandy Schools Collaborative (2015–2020).
He founded Innovative Education Solutions, LLC in 2008, providing leadership coaching and professional learning, and launched Impactful Living, LLC in 2020, authoring God, I’m Struggling to help others live with purpose.
Dr. Pearson holds degrees from Henderson State University, Southern Illinois University, and Saint Louis University. He now serves as a facilitator with the Success-Ready Students Network, supporting districts in redesigning assessment and accountability and advancing the use of Descriptive Dashboards to engage stakeholders.
For additional information about this event, please contact Brian Lankheitblankheit@edplus.org.
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