Strategic Data Project Convening 2026

Session Description: This session explores how emerging speech and sensing technologies and teacher-feedback tools can enhance school-readiness measurement by capturing naturalistic indicators of language, engagement, and self-regulation. Speakers will examine links between these multimodal data sources and traditional readiness assessments, highlight responsible integration within multilingual and culturally diverse classrooms, and share models for open, researcher-accessible data infrastructures. Participants will gain actionable insights for incorporating these innovations into early childhood and P20W data systems to support equitable, evidence-based decision-making.

Intended Audience: State education agencies; Philanthropies and Foundations; Managers of data or technology teams