Publications and Tools

The publications and tools on this page are designed to help you take action with the E-W Framework. Access at-a-glance resources for a look into what the framework has to offer, tools to help you explore and apply the framework, and additional resources from our partners and organizations doing related work in the field.

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E-W Framework Analysis Tool

Double Line's E-W Framework Analysis Tool is a free, open-source, web-based tool that allows users to map their data to the Framework, instantly seeing where your data systems stand. It can help you transform fragmented data into a strategic roadmap for SLDS investment and policy-making.

Data collection
StriveTogether Strategy Spotlight | High School Graduation

This two-page use case showcases practices of one member of the StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network, San Antonio's UP Partnership's Future Ready Bexar County Plan. This plan is a community-wide initiative bringing together more than 100 institutional partners committed to ensuring that 70% of young people enroll in a degree or credential program by 2030. Through this work, UP Partnership aligns systems, strategies and partners so every student has access to the relationships, opportunities and support they need to thrive.

Evidence-based practices
Using Essential Questions to Guide Data Collection and Reporting

State leaders and decision makers often face practical limitations to collecting and reporting data. This resource from the Education Commission of the States offers a discussion guide on how to mitigate these limitations, including a process for identifying the questions you want to answer, designing your data collection approach and acting on the answers your data systems provide.

Strengthening State Education-to-Workforce Data

This tool from the Education Commission of the States summarizes the Framework indicators that are most and least commonly collected by states along with reflections on trends in data collection. It also includes considerations for states seeking to modernize or otherwise change their state education data systems. The tool is intended to help state leaders develop a strategic approach to collecting data in their state by determining which data collection goals are feasible and which are aspirational

Data collection
State Data Reporting Dashboard

This dashboard from the Education Commission of the States is aligned with the Education-to-Workforce Indicators Framework, which outlines 99 indicators spanning early care and education, K-12, postsecondary, workforce and related systems. You'll find links to thousands of public dashboards and reports that provide information on education and workforce across every state and the District of Columbia. This resource aims to help state education and workforce leaders gauge how fully they can answer essential questions about student progress from early education into the workforce.

Data collection
50-State Comparison: State Data Dictionaries and Manuals

This resource from the Education Commission of the States links to every public education-to-workforce data dictionary, data manual, or related document our team identified in early care and education, K-12, postsecondary and workforce data systems across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Explore the following data points in this 50-State Comparison:
- Multi-agency data sources.
- Early care and education sources.
- K-12 data sources.
- Postsecondary data sources.
- Workforce data sources.

Data collection
StriveTogether Strategy Spotlight | Kindergarten Readiness - Early childhood

This two-page use case showcases practices of members of the StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network, including Cradle to Career Fresno in California and Spartanburg Academic Movement who are leading efforts to ensure that families and babies receive the care they need through universal and targeted strategies anchored in an E-W Framework essential question and key indicators.

Evidence-based practices
StriveTogether Strategy Spotlight | Middle Grade Math

This two-page use case showcases practices of a StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network member, Cradle to Career Partnership (C2C), who is leading efforts to address disparities in math achievement through a place-based strategy anchored by the Math Collaborative Action Network (CAN), a collaborative infrastructure driving a multipronged approach to strengthen teacher support and improve student outcomes. anchored in an E-W Framework essential question and key indicators.

Evidence-based practices
StriveTogether Strategy Spotlight | Kindergarten Readiness - Developmental screenings

This two-page use case showcases practices of members of the StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network, including Waterbury Bridge to Success, Stamford Cradle to Career, Bridgeport Prospers and Norwalk ACTS, who are leading efforts to increase access to developmental screenings and early intervention services anchored in an E-W Framework essential question and key indicator.

Evidence-based practices
StriveTogether Strategy Spotlight | Kindergarten Readiness - Access

This two-page use case showcases practices and policies of members of the StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network, including Preschool Promise, Seeding Success and Spartanburg Academic Movement, who are leading efforts to increase access to quality pre-k through innovative funding models and community-driven strategies anchored in an E-W Framework essential question and key indicators.

Policy and advocacy
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