Implement, Improve and Expand Your Statewide Longitudinal Data System: Creating a Culture of Data in Education

Acknowledgments

This book has two coauthors and a long list of folks who helped. Making connections and facilitating interviews, giving time in reviewing what we wrote and sharing their expertise and insight, these folks were an integral part in the writing and completion of this book and we offer our sincere thanks.

Thanks go to Emily Baranello for her passionate help at every stage of the writing of this book. We also wish to thank Jim and Ann Goodnight for their support of education and allowing us the time to work with many different parts of the education system in the United States.

For the graphics and creative illustrations, we thank the SAS BIRD Graphic Divas, Tammi Kay George and Lisa Morton.

Big thanks go to our colleagues at SAS for helping to make connections with educators, administrators and experts, and supporting our efforts in writing this book: Elizabeth Ceranowski, Christine Bevan, Bob Tschudi, Colleen Jenkins, Missy Poynter, Rob Harper, Courtney Verska, Kristin McCown, Barbara Flannery, Keli Lloyd, Michael Drutar, Liz Riley-Young, Chris Ricciardi, Ottis Cowper and Scott McQuiggan.

We thank the SAS Publishing team for their expert guidance through the process of writing our first book: Stacey Hamilton, Shelley Sessoms and Julie Platt. A special thank-you to the SAS Library team for their help in researching: Jennifer Evans, Elaine Teague, Karissa Wrenn and Julia Legeros.

We had an amazing set of reviewers who were candid with their feedback and whose input ...