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Five minutes. Twelve questions. Your results by email the moment you submit.
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Michigan K-12 Data Governance Self-Assessment (opens external site)
Four domains, three questions each, one 1–4 confidence scale. Returns your Confidence Index, three prioritized next steps, and a shareable version with names stripped out.
Open until Oct 31, 2026
Session materials
Slides and handouts from each presentation, posted after each session.
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METL — Data Governance Self-Assessment (slides)
September 17, 2026. The building analogy, the four domains, what you get back, and the three asks.
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ISD collaboration handout
Two-page handout: six parallel data privacy action options, with a discussion guide on the back.
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MAEDS #62 — session materials
October 28–30, 2026, Grand Traverse Resort. Slides will be posted here after the session.
Coming after MAEDS
Michigan programs you can join
Existing statewide programs — you would be joining something, not building it.
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Michigan Student Data Privacy Alliance (opens external site)
REMC's statewide SDPC alliance: one standard data privacy agreement instead of negotiating vendor by vendor, plus a shared registry of signed agreements.
Data Use & Sharing
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MiSecure (opens external site)
Incident response planning tools, tabletop exercises, the Quick Self-Audit, and the K-12 Operations Center.
Security & Privacy
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Michigan DataHub (opens external site)
Interoperability on the Ed-Fi standard, so the same field means the same thing everywhere it lands.
Data Management
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MiGreatDataLake (opens external site)
Regional analysis capacity for Michigan ISDs and districts. A Data Trust Board is forming and seeking districts.
Leadership & Strategy
Laws and frameworks
The citations behind the self-assessment's next steps.
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MCL 380.1136 — Protection of pupil privacy (opens external site)
Parents may request a list of every third party that received their child's data, and why. Thirty days, no charge.
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MCL 388.1697g — Section 97g, statewide K-12 SOC (opens external site)
Funds the statewide Security Operations Center and managed detection and response for districts and ISDs.
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General Schedule #2 — Public Schools records retention (opens external site)
Michigan's approved retention schedule for public school records: how long to keep them and how to dispose of them.
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CIS Critical Security Controls v8.1 (opens external site)
The safeguards each next step maps to, organized by Implementation Group (IG1 → IG2 → IG3).