Analytics

It starts with powerful analytics. We examine student interest, course offerings and enrollment trends, distribution of staff assignments, and more, finding opportunities to make your ambitions possible.

ABL overall academic intensity percentage

ABL content course progression dashboard

Abl's data analysis tools allow districts to examine the efficacy of their resource and time allocations and how resource utilization directly impacts student outcomes.

Schools and districts examine student access to rigorous courses using Abl's Academic Intensity framework. The Academic Intensity Measure provides critical information regarding outcome disparities between student groups and highlights high-impact areas of opportunity.

Abl's team of veteran educators leads district and school leaders through a comprehensive data journey, leveraging School Dashboards to pinpoint clear opportunities and identify root causes of data trends. This analysis is the foundation for a collaborative action planning process that brings in complete scheduling teams to ensure insights translate into action.

Words from our Clients

Quickly brand empowered bandwidth vis-a-vis best-of-breed experiences. Assertively visualize team driven outsourcing rather than market

John rice

Executive Director of Teaching and Learning

Quickly brand empowered bandwidth vis-a-vis best-of-breed experiences. Assertively visualize team driven outsourcing rather than market

John rice

Executive Director of Teaching and Learning

Quickly brand empowered bandwidth vis-a-vis best-of-breed experiences. Assertively visualize team driven outsourcing rather than market

John rice

Executive Director of Teaching and Learning

Quickly brand empowered bandwidth vis-a-vis best-of-breed experiences. Assertively visualize team driven outsourcing rather than market

John rice

Executive Director of Teaching and Learning

Quickly brand empowered bandwidth vis-a-vis best-of-breed experiences. Assertively visualize team driven outsourcing rather than market

John rice

Executive Director of Teaching and Learning

With the launch of our strategic plan, we were seeing gains in graduation rates and overall college readiness in our high schools. However, we knew we still had work to do to reach our goals. Abl’s analysis helped us see that many scholars were not having the rigorous, robust schedules and academic experiences they needed to open every possible door after high school. Not only that, but our scheduling practices were also resulting in a financial hit to our district.

Tammy Campbell, Superintendent

Superintendent, Federal Way Public Schools

I discovered that our most rigorous courses were not easily accessible to many students. These courses were often restricted by prerequisites, performance requirements, or arbitrary teacher recommendations, creating barriers to entry for many students.

Traditional Scheduling to Strategic Scheduling

The Leading Through the Master Schedule process and partnership was transformational for our district in looking at how to approach master scheduling as a tool for expanding access and opportunity to college and career readiness for all students.

LESLEE SHEPHERD

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

Partnering with ABL allowed [our] administrators to do away with spreadsheets and stacks of paper — and more easily create academic pathways aligned with our core values of equity and opportunity.

CHERYL HIBBELN

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SCHOOL INNOVATION AND INTEGRATED YOUTH SERVICES

The ABL team brought institutional knowledge of national best practices in scheduling to our strategic planning efforts, which was a serious value add. Because they know how other districts across the country are scheduling, the realm of possibilities was much broader than if we just considered what was happening in other parts of Iowa. Their expertise expanded our tool box as we considered how to provide the best, and most equitable, education for all students in our district.

John Rice

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

We have been able to efficiently work through scheduling conflicts so students can complete their core classes while also taking advantage of other enriching, future-shaping opportunities. With a better schedule, we’ve been able to increase enrollment in important career and technical education courses by 25 percent this year.

PATRICK KELLY

MASTER SCHEDULING LEAD, HAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL

You really pushed us to think today and were instrumental in helping us see/interpret the data that we needed to see! Today was one of the more valuable days I’ve had in the past year. Appreciate all the support.

SCHOOL LEADER & ABL TRANSFORMATIVE SCHEDULING PARTICIPANT

WASHINGTON OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

The specificity of the transcript data was powerful, and the design of looking at other transcripts before our own was smart. . .Thanks so much for all your work on this.

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- Professional Learning Participant

Abl allows me to dig into the number of conflicts and who the kids are. I have more knowledge and information when I’m building the schedule rather than waiting for the end to have some conversations.

MARC HEISER

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, LOVELAND HIGH SCHOOL

Abl knows us better than we know ourselves, but shared it in a way that was informative, enlightening and sparked critical thinking without any shame.

JUSTIN BIRMINGHAM

DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE, CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION

It’s time to embrace not only the potential but the essential role of operations in furthering the pursuit of educational equity. When overlooked or underestimated, school-level processes can inhibit access to rigorous, high-quality teaching and learning. But when harnessed correctly with equity at the core, school operations have the power to improve every student’s experience—and to catalyze all other efforts to enhance pedagogy, rigor, and engagement.

Diane Conti

Assistant Principal, Hoover HighSchool

Features

ABL academic intensity patterns dashboard

ABL coursetaking data dashboard

Identify levers for change

Gain insights that support strategic decision-making to improve outcomes for all students. Set up a plan that puts desired changes into action using Master Scheduling Guidelines gathered from best practices across hundreds of schools.

Visualize the student journey

More deeply understand equity in your district with data about student course load, access to advanced courses inside schools and across schools, cohorting of students by subgroups, and more.

Uncover the story in your schedules

Reveal how your teachers are distributed across your district. See inside each of your classrooms across the whole district. Understand how your programs are staffed and implemented with information such as teacher load, teacher prep time, and class size inconsistencies by course and grade across schools.

Create data driven action plans

Analyze key trends in student academic preparedness data to identify priority 12-month student success goals that improve CCR readiness and develop an equity-driven action plan incorporating high-leverage strategies and the district's greatest growth opportunities.