School districts in Michigan will be expected to use an online Web interface to upload school improvement information. This week, a couple of our principals will travel to Lansing to be trained with other Delta-Schoolcraft ISD educators. For the past few years, school teams have done self-ratings of performance indicators related to educational excellence, by using an online system. The new school improvement portal will take that tool to the next level, and actually archive the information. It is hoped that state assessment data will be pre-populated by the state, but then local data can be integrated into the system as well. From the foundation of the data story, goals and objectives will be generated, and strategies outlined. I am hoping that our representatives will learn much to bring back to our local teams.