Ed-Fi Updates Newsletter
March 10, 2025
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All Ed-Fi acronym explanations are available in the Ed-Fi acronyms document.
Join us March 11 for the Second of Three Ed-Fi School Leaders Listening Sessions
Share this invitation with your school leaders.
The MDE Ed-Fi team wants to hear about district, charter school, and Tribally controlled school needs and to collect input from leadership for consideration in shaping the Ed-Fi roadmap as the program moves forward.
Join us for our 2024-25 SY MDE/Ed-Fi School Leader Listening Session Series. All sessions this spring will have the same format and content.
- Who: Superintendents, other district leaders, charter school leaders, and Tribally Controlled School leaders along with MDE Ed-Fi team members
- When: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Two opportunities that day: 8:00-8:45 a.m. and 4:30-5:15 p.m.
- All sessions will be held via Microsoft Teams. More information can be found in the Ed-Fi Calendar.
Spring 2025 Ed-Fi Experience Survey Now Open
Please share your experience. One way of tracking progress and gathering feedback is through a brief survey that is given to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) every six months. We would appreciate if you could take 10 minutes to respond to this survey by Friday, April 4. The survey does not collect names of individuals or districts but does ask for some demographic information. Thank you in advance for your time and feedback.
Complete the Spring 2025 Ed-Fi Experience Survey.
Also, thank you to the 170 participants from school and district staff across the state in our Fall 2024 Ed-Fi Experience Survey. This valuable feedback is helping us meet your needs, plan for the future and monitor growth. Results from the Fall 2024 survey informed the work of creating the modified Spring 2025 survey.
View the Fall 2024 Ed-Fi Experience Survey results.
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Ed-Fi MARSS Vendor-Specific User Group Virtual Meetings
Please check the MDE calendar for our monthly vendor-specific user groups where MARSS in Ed-Fi questions can be addressed.
For Synergy users, please contact Region 1 or the vendor for an invite.
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Direct Pay PSEO Reporting Change
For the college course reporting for direct pay Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) use the state course code 23010 related to the college course. This will be for the PSEO direct pay reporting only. You do not need to change what is already entered. This change can be just for new college course reporting for direct pay.
EDVP MCCC Dynamic Report Update
The MCCC Dynamic Report–MCCC Validation has added a column for the error ID. The error ID is the number of the error as its own column. You will now be able to filter by this column to see the list the errors that are happening. You will also be able to filter by each error easily as you work through the errors.
MCCC Announcements Delivery Change Effective April 15
MCCC announcements are going to be published in the Ed-Fi Newsletter. If you have not yet signed up, select this link for Ed-Fi Newsletter Sign-up. We will be moving away from the MCCC announcement only messages on April 15, 2025.
For assistance with questions, contact Karen Millette (651-582-8632).
Save the Date: Spring Training for New MCCC Reporters
Dates:
Go to the MDE calendar for links to the training. No registration needed.
The training will be an overview of MCCC data entry, data sending and data review and validation resources. Putting the pieces together. This is intended for any staff that will interact with MCCC reporting from the data entry, data sending and reviewing and validating the records sent.
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Do you have a question about Ed-Fi you would like us to answer?
Please email ed-fi.mde@state.mn.us.
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Name: Michael Diedrich
Role/Position: ESEA Policy Specialist
Favorites:
- Movie—Casablanca
- Color—Forest Green
- Spice to use when cooking—Oregano
Three things to describe your role:
- Lead development of accountability policy when prioritizing schools for support under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which is the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
- Coordinate with ESEA program staff, Data Practices and Analytics staff, and MNIT staff to meet federal data reporting requirements for ESEA programs in ways that produce as little burden as possible on school and district staff.
- Facilitate the Integrated Supports for Resilient Youth (ISRY) team at MDE that supports schools and districts in coordinating support for students experiencing homelessness, in foster care, involved in the juvenile justice system, and in child welfare programs for neglected children and youth.
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