Meetings

The third annual workshop on “Advanced Quantitative Methods and Analytics for Public Policy Support” (AQMAPPS) in 2025 aims at improving public policy through advanced data modelling techniques, following the previous editions in Milan (2023) and Amsterdam (2024). The workshop builds on a collaboration of educational scientists and is organized by Teachers College, Columbia University (USA), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and KU Leuven (Belgium). AQMAPPS provides a space for dialogue and  insightful discussion at the forefront of quantitative methods and analytics for public policy support. The meeting hosts scholars from a wide range of social science disciplines—including education, health, crime, economics, political science, sociology, and public administration—to share their expertise and perspectives on how advanced quantitative methods and analytics can drive effective and efficient decision-making in public good policies. A specific feature of the workshop is to involve scholars and researchers from different countries, from both sides of the Atlantic.

The 2025 Education Indicator Data Collaborative Workshop is a two-day, hands-on workshop bringing together education data scientists and K-12 practitioners, including teachers, principals, and district administrators, to design and test data solutions for schools and districts centered on public open access opportunity and resource data linked to outcomes. Participants will collaborate to develop actionable data visualizations and tools that support decision-making around key educational indicators.

Education Leadership Data Analytics (ELDA) is the emerging domain of research, practice, and policy in PK-12 education that focuses on bringing together four broad domains at the intersection of 1) Education Leadership, 2) Evidence Based Improvement Cycles, 3) Data Science, 4) and Equity-centered data practices. The Education Leadership Data Analytics 2023 Conference (#ELDA2023) at Teachers College, Columbia University was designed to bring together educators and administrators with research leaders and innovators working at the intersections of individual overlaps of two or more of these four circles in the Venn diagram. The ELDA 2023 Conference was designed to bring participants together across a wide variety of fields in education who work collaboratively with or within schools and districts, know how to facilitate and lead capacity building conversations with educators using evidence and data to build trust and collaboration, and work with data through open access code, analytics, data science, data visualizations and dashboards, data mining and machine learning, and statistics.

Despite significant progress, educational inequities remain one of the most pressing issues in New York City schools. To address these inequities, comprehensive information across the currently available public datasets is needed to map the available data to possible questions and indicators of success and challenges in addressing inequities across NYC schools.

Educators globally are continually encouraged to use data to inform instructional improvement in schools, yet while there have been many recent innovations in data visualization and data science, educators are rarely included in dashboard co-design.

The Education Leadership Data Analytics (ELDA) Summit 2018 brought together educational professionals and data scientists to help school leaders understand how they can use data more effectively without feeling a loss of control or accountability. Education Leadership Data Analytics (ELDA) is an emerging domain that is centered at the intersection of education leadership, the use of evidence-based improvement cycles in schools to promote instructional improvement, and education data science.