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KERN

EDUCATION PLEDGE
Building a Pathway to the Future

No single program or institution can
single-handedly solve the complex,
large-scale, education and workforce
readiness challenges facing our community.

The Pledge

Kern’s 47 school districts and partnering institutions of higher education have committed to working
together as one system to ensure student success. The Pledge signatories have agreed to:

Meet regularly, recognizing that work is generational and requires long-term
stakeholder commitment.

Work together within an environment of co-learning and collaboration.

Share best practices, services and resources.

Commit to innovation and possibility thinking to achieve greater outcomes for all
students.

Share student data to set baseline measures and monitor progress toward
achieving collective goals.

The Kern Integrated Data System (KIDS) is an integral part of the Kern Education Pledge and
ensures the sharing of student outcome data to assist all stakeholders in making informed
decisions about what is best for students, teachers and schools. KIDS is a powerful, and secure,
student data warehouse where educators have access to large data sets and a myriad of
real-time reports that can be disaggregated to:

• Inform current instructional practices;
• Implement targeted instructional strategies;
• Provide warning signals where student interventions might be needed;
• Illuminate bright spots that might be investigated and replicated; and
• Activate professional development needs for teachers, administrators and other

instructional support staff across Kern County.

KIDS Pilot Project Stats To Date

Through Spring 2020

11 125k 468 65%

DISTRICTS STUDENTS METRICS STUDENTS
REPRESENTED

FUTURE KIDS is anticipated to be fully rolled out countywide by the end of 2023.
GROWTH 2021 — Onboarding 19 new districts (Cohort #1)
2022 — Onboarding 18 new districts (Cohort 2)
2023 — Onboard higher education partners (Cohort #3)

KIDS is the engine of Kern County’s
cradle-to-career initiative and will propel

our community forward en route to
better outcomes for all students.

Dr. Mary C. Barlow
Kern County Superintendent of Schools

KIDS brings all data sources together into one system, delivering intuitive insights,
meaningful actions and positive impacts.

Track and meet
federal and state

accountability
requirements

Improve
student growth
and achievement

KIDS compiles, cleans Drive equity,
and completes the financial
student data
operations, and
return on
instruction

KERN

EDUCATION PLEDGE
kerneducationpledge.com • kernkids.org