Data Driven decision making...

1.  At our school, we collect data on every child and family at Julie Billiart. Since we have a smaller population, we are able to collect and store a greater amount of data. Also, because of the nature of our school and the children that we service, we collect a variety of data based upon their special learning needs and disabilities. Currently, we collect data on student full name, Ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs and parish/church info, gender, donations/financial history, medical history, parent/guardian information, date of birth and birth city, IEP/MFE/SP expiration dates, qualifying disability, address DOR, grades, attendance, schools attended, graduation date and future school.
2. DASL and progress book, raisers edge software, iepanywhere, Excel spread sheets, student file folders.
3.  Administration- Principal, vice principal, president and school secretary. Principal keeps most of the school wide data and student driven data, VP keeps all scholarship and special education data, president keeps all historical and donation/donor/ school affiliations data, and secretary has access to databases and updating student information. 
4. No, not all sources "sync" or communicate with one another. The advancement aspect of our school always used Raisers Edge software, but it was not compatible with our software, so now we have begun to use and get trained in DASL, which will have the ability to sync all systems together. The data that is not compatible is basically useless because it is not able to be used in the way the people and school needs it. In the past, it has caused many obstacles and frustrations for our staff, administration and parents.
5. Data is collected yearly or once a semester. Basically, we collect at the beginning and the end of the year and we also change or alter information as needed throughout the year. Due to this fact, so much data is collected, and then it is rather overwhelming to upload it and update it into the system. It does take long periods of time, thus delaying important data usage needs from being met.
6.  I personally have access to all the data, because of my position within the school. The teachers have access to DASL, which is the software that will eventually store all and sync with all student information. It is a very large student information database, and eventually, everything that is uploaded into there, will be accessible to the teachers and staff. The data that I have access to does in fact help me do my work on a daily basis because so much in administration is having access to student information. However, I do not feel the information helps the teachers quite as much. They have made a couple comments that they would like to have easier access to student information as it pertains to how they learn and participate in the classroom. They also have said that it would help them to have the students pictures so they can know names and start to build rapport from day one. This feature is in DASL, but will not be up and running until it is all completed and school pictures are uploaded from Ohio School pictures. I feel that once DASL is updated to its full ability/capability, it will be a much more effective tool. Currently, I have to search for a lot of the information in many places that, when DALS is complete, will be in one place.
7. DASL- Currently the system is not acting up to par because it is not fully uploaded with all the data. I am confident that when and if used correctly, and to it's full capacity, DASL will have the ability to meet the needs of our entire school, plus more. The upkeep of the data, once full inputted, will be much easier to manage and update periodically. Right now it is simply getting all the information from the other systems into one neutral location.