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ClearPath EDU: Use Data to Drive Student Success and Innovation

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Introduction

Schools, districts, and states must deliver measurable student success, manage limited resources, and navigate constant change, all while building trust with their students, staff, boards, and community. Yet fragmented data systems and compliance-first reporting often stand in the way of real-time, strategic decision-making. 

 Resultant’s ClearPath EDU is a scalable, future-proof data solution that enables SEAs and LEAs to move from data chaos to clarity, from compliance to action, and from stagnation to innovation.  

Built on the belief that data should empower, not burden, educators, ClearPath EDU is a flexible, future-proof, modular ecosystem that adapts to the evolving needs of educators, administrators, and leaders. And its AI-powered data visualizations move beyond static, descriptive dashboards to provide summative intelligence with predictive insights and recommended courses of action. 

The ClearPath EDU Suite

Gone are the days of inflexible, monolithic systems. Today’s educational organizations need the ability to swap out underperforming components without disrupting the whole. Meanwhile, traditional dashboards reflect the past, not the road ahead; they provide roughly the same directional value as a car’s rearview mirror. 

ClearPath EDU’s API-driven, cloud-native design enables schools, districts, and states to seamlessly evolve at their own pace without a vendor lock-in or product dependency. And when organizations are ready, the AI-powered platform’s visualizations provide a full perspective on all findings, predicting what will happen next, why, and what to do about it. 

DataLift Advisory

Upgrade without product, platform, or vendor lock-in.

DataLift Advisory provides consultative support to design and implement scalable, cloud-native architectures. Whether districts are starting with Ed-Fi or seeking to go beyond it, this service ensures long-term flexibility, security, and performance. DataLift helps build the taxonomy and stewardship models that make analytics sustainable and includes strategic data ownership, metadata governance, and change control processes.

InsightBridge

Where the classroom meets the cloud.

InsightBridge ensures that every teacher, counselor, and administrator has the insights they need to support students when it matters most. Move beyond static dashboards to dynamic, educator-facing analytics environments with natural language query capabilities. InsightBridge integrates real-time attendance, assessment, behavior, and intervention data, then layers in predictive modeling and early warning indicators, helping educators act in the moment to shape student success.

NarrativeIQ

Bridge the gap between insight and influence.

NarrativeIQ turns complex education data into compelling stories that drive change with storytelling and research analytics. Instead of merely having descriptive dashboards, leaders can access district-level analytics environments that reveal systemwide patterns, school-specific successes or concerns, and what’s likely to occur in the future. Natural language querying combined with comprehensive advanced analytics help guide strategic decisions. From admin level-ready visualizations to longitudinal impact studies, NarrativeIQ helps stakeholders understand what’s happening, why it matters, and how to communicate it to take action toward meaningful change.

PathwayPortrait

Connect the dots across K–12 and beyond for postsecondary success.

PathwayPortrait empowers districts and states to define, measure, and communicate a holistic view of each student using real-time and longitudinal data. From academic achievement and attendance to career exploration and social-emotional growth, PathwayPortrait helps operationalize the graduate profile: aligning programs, interventions, and resources to ensure students not only graduate, but graduate ready for employment, enlistment, or enrollment.

Schools, districts, and states still struggle with data chaos

Most LEAs and SEAs collect data primarily for compliance, not to drive daily decision-making. This data then resides in disparate systems, such as student information systems (SIS) and learning management systems (LMS), as well as human resources, finance, and assessment platforms.

Data silos, inaccessibility, and the complexity of data aggregation and standardization make reporting and analysis a slow, manual process. Not only does this all but eliminate the possibility of real-time insights that improve student outcomes, but it also affects resource allocation when every dollar matters.

There’s a deep disconnect across the education sector between what’s reported for compliance and what’s needed to create actionable instructional insights. This gap must be closed to innovate and drive student success.

From the classroom to the district office, data and context gaps disrupt progress

Across every role, progress depends on information that’s timely, connected, and trusted. Yet siloed systems and static dashboards leave people piecing insights together manually, forcing stakeholders at every level to bridge the gap between data and direction on their own.  

  • Superintendents are under pressure to reverse learning loss and show measurable gains quickly but lack the clear, timely data required to evaluate program efficacy and measure ROI. 
  • Teachers and counselors miss critical opportunities for early intervention with students because data comes too late, too fragmented, or lacks the context they need to act.
  • School improvement and accountability professionals are expected to define strategies and drive change for students but lack the data infrastructure to support these critical functions.   
  • CIOs have essentially become service providers within the district, balancing the need to empower teachers with the day-to-day management of outdated systems and vendor sprawl. 
  • IT departments are overwhelmed, trying to meet high expectations from leadership with aging infrastructure and tight budgets that limit opportunities for improvement.

SEAs and LEAs must move from collecting data for compliance to data analysis for action.

THE VISION

A future-proof approach to interoperability and analytics

The path forward for K–12 schools, districts, and states starts with implementing cloud-native, scalable, and secure data structures that unify and democratize data access. New data sources, state mandates, and instructional strategies can integrate seamlessly as needed. This approach eliminates vendor lock-in, enables true user ownership, and instills confidence among stakeholders.

This is Resultant’s ClearPath EDU.

Core value drivers of ClearPath EDU

AI Acceleration

ClearPath EDU’s historical analysis provides insights into what happened, then goes further. AI-powered predictive and prescriptive analytics provide summative intelligence, show what’s coming next and why, and deliver recommended courses of action.

Data On-Demand

From teacher to superintendent to IT pro, every stakeholder has access to the data and insights they need, right when they need them.

Multiple Engagement Points

More than customizable dashboards, ClearPath EDU supports advanced reporting, alerts, and analytics coaching.

Future-Ready Design

ClearPath’s modern architecture will support the next wave of challenges and aspirations: new school models and pathways; flexible, personalized learning; and work-based education for career readiness.

Seamless Efficiency and Compliance

Automated data processes reduce manual tasks, ensure federal and state compliance, simplify data management, and enhance data security.

Beyond compliance and reporting, ClearPath EDU provides the infrastructure for transformation and innovation.

Technical foundation of ClearPath EDU

 ClearPath EDU drives outcomes with real-world benefits. To get there, schools, districts, and states need a strong technical foundation. Each core feature and capability has a strategic purpose and simplifies solving this complex challenge. 

  • Real-time data ingestion and validation enables teams to make timely decisions based on accurate, current data, critical for interventions and resource allocation.
  • Unified governance and user permissioning enforces secure, role-based access controls to maintain data privacy and compliance.
  • User-friendly tools and features such as dashboards, alerts, and AI-enabled analytics make insights accessible and actionable for users at all levels of data literacy.
  • Open data standard adoption (Ed-Fi, CEDS, 1EdTech) prevents vendor lock-in and ensures interoperability with future systems.
  • Modular, API-driven architecture allows districts to grow and adapt their systems without replacing entire platforms.
  • Data lineage and metadata tagging builds trust in data by making its origin and transformation transparent.
  • Automation of ETL/ELT pipelines reduces errors, minimizes manual work, and ensures data quality.
  • Cloud-native, vendor-agnostic deployment provides scalability, cost-efficiency, and autonomy over data infrastructure.
  • CI/CD and infrastructure as code accelerates implementation, makes maintenance predictable, and reduces downtime. 

DID YOU KNOW?

The Ed-Fi Alliance is actively developing the Ed-Fi Data Management Service (DMS), a robust and flexible data integration and management platform addressing the evolving needs of the Ed-Fi community. Resultant is an award-winning Ed-Fi implementation partner uniquely positioned to support the existing ODS/API platform and the upcoming DMS platform. 

The human element is essential to a strong technical foundation 

Resultant guides school districts through organizational change management (OCM), a highly structured process that involves all stakeholders early and often to increase buy-in and adoption. Provided training builds data literacy, empowers staff to take full advantage of the solution, and makes improvements sustainable. Provided documentation ensures schools, districts, or states can independently maintain and update the new system if they so choose. 

THE CLEARPATH EDU DIFFERENCE:

Lessons learned from successful state and district deployments

The Indiana Department of Education (DoE) partnered with Resultant to modernize its data architecture with ClearPath EDU. With seamless interoperability, advanced analytics, and intuitive visualizations, the Indiana DoE can now define and track graduate readiness with real-time insights. This initiative has opened the door for similar enhancements at the district level, creating a technical foundation for symbiotic relationships between districts and the state. 

An Indiana school district leveraged state infrastructure through a localized ClearPath EDU implementation. After a comprehensive free gap analysis and interoperability capabilities assessment, Resultant developed a solution that enables them to access state data and integrate additional data sources. This has already boosted transparency, accelerated time-to-insight, and increased stakeholder engagement. 

The success of these initiatives reinforces key differentiators of ClearPath EDU and Resultant’s approach to implementation.

 

Outcome-Focused 

From day one, solutions are tied to specific goals, such as closing opportunity gaps, reducing absenteeism, and improving resource allocation. 

Deeper Value  

Moving beyond an end goal of compliance reporting, schools, districts, and states can use AI-powered predictive and prescriptive data insights to improve student success and accelerate innovation. 

Change from Within 

Training, feedback, and monitoring of adoption rates and satisfaction scores empower schools, districts, and states to become agents of change. 

User Ownership 

Once implemented, users fully own the platform with no vendor lock-in, resulting in full autonomy, greater confidence, and a more sustainable solution. 

Managed Services Option 

While Resultant builds capacity for users to manage and maintain ClearPath EDU internally, those that prefer ongoing support may choose the managed services option.

WHAT’S NEXT:  

A roadmap to action

Implementation Framework  

Five phases define successful implementation while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to the nuances of each school, district, or state.  

  1. Discovery: Understanding Your Landscape
  • Deep-dive stakeholder interviews across roles (superintendent, CIO, program leads, principals, teachers) to understand priorities, challenges, and vision. 
  • Assessment of the current data ecosystem, including systems, integrations, workflows, bottlenecks, and compliance requirements. 
  • Success metrics defined to align with both instructional and operational goals. 
  • Delivery of roadmap outlining project milestones, expected outcomes, and governance roles. 
  1. Integration: Connecting and Validating Your Data
  • Secure connections established to all key data sources (SIS, LMS, finance, HR, assessment systems, etc.).
  • Automation of ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest and clean data in real time or near-real time to reduce manual, error-prone processes.
  • Validation of data accuracy and completeness, flagging discrepancies for correction to build trust in data.
  • Data mapping to standardized schemas (Ed-Fi, CEDS, etc.), ensuring interoperability and future scalability.
  1. Governance: Securing Dataand Institutionalizing Accountability
  • Creation of secure, cloud-native data lakehouse architecture with role-based access controls and audit trails. 
  • Documentation of governance policies, including data privacy (FERPA compliance), retention, and security. 
  • Establishment of a data stewardship model and a cross-functional governance council. 
  • Implementation of metadata tagging and data lineage tracking to ensure transparency. 
  1. Analytics Enablement:Making Data Actionable 
  • Creation of intuitive, customizable visualizations, reports, and alerts tailored to different roles and data fluency levels. 
  • Deployment of predictive and prescriptive analytics capabilities, such as early warning indicators for absenteeism or performance trends. 
  • Training of district staff to confidently navigate, interpret, and act on insights. 
  • Establishment of a “community of practice” to deepen data literacy. 
  1. Optimization:Sustaining Momentum and Adapting
  • Monitoring of system performance and user engagement to ensure continued alignment with goals and maximize ROI. 
  • Refinement of data models and dashboards based on feedback and evolving needs. 
  • Ongoing support and enhancements as needed, with an option for managed services. 
  • Periodic reviews and roadmap development of next-stage capabilities. 

Clear your path to student success

Share your goals and challenges with the Resultant team and learn how ClearPath EDU can help you: 

  • Achieve better student outcomes 
  • Unlock actionable insights 
  • Enhance reporting 
  • Improve operational efficiency 
  • Simplify compliance and data management 
  • Spark educational innovation 

Request a Free Gap Analysis 

Let’s clear the path to student success—together. 

Resultant offers schools, districts, and states a free gap analysis that enables stakeholders to understand the opportunities, process, and costs related to ClearPath EDU and make informed decisions with clarity and confidence. This analysis requires a time commitment of just 90 minutes and includes: 

  • Interoperability capability assessment to evaluate the current state of data systems and sources. 
  • Reference architecture to show you what your data systems will look like after implementation. 
  • Use case prioritization to identify and emphasize areas where ClearPath EDU will deliver the most value. 
  • Cost of ownership forecast to provide transparency in both upfront costs and ongoing operational expenses. 

Contact us to begin charting your school, district, or state’s path to success! 

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