Central Florida Education Ecosystem Database
With support from Helios Education Foundation, the School District of Osceola County (SDOC), Orange County Public Schools (OCPS), Valencia College (Valencia), and the University of Central Florida (UCF) along with Accenture and WestEd are engaged in a Collaborative Design Phase to grow organizational capacity and develop hypotheses on student readiness.
Vision
To create a model of collaborative data sharing among Central Florida pre-kindergarten through university public educational institutions to identify factors that inform decisions and interventions to increase success, outcomes, and opportunities for all students.
Goal
To build the tools and processes necessary to provide a silo-free examination of student performance from pre-kindergarten through post-secondary, and begin identification of insights that can be used to provide interventions that will increase student success.
Objectives
- Develop a database with front-end analytic capability that will compile historical and ongoing data from all partners;
- Develop the methodology for the partners to conduct analysis and identify insights about student success via data analysis and reporting tools.
Meet the Staff
Diana Pienaar
Director
Diana has always had a tendency to follow the road less traveled and focuses on areas where she is best able to make a difference. It is for that reason, she is extremely excited to be the Director of CFEED, a collaborative project focused on determining student success factors based upon data analytics derived from shared data from institutional partners - Valencia College, University of Central Florida, The School District of Osceola County and Orange County Public Schools.
Prior to joining Valencia, Diana spent over 28 years in various roles within the Information Technology field. She worked within Research and Development roles in companies focused on Financial Services and Banking, E-Commerce, Logistics as well as Consulting Services at such companies as Gartner, Fiserv, Chep and Convergys prior to moving into Academia. Her focus within these private industries was Project Management, Quality Assurance and Management.
Recently, she was the Sr. Director of Enterprise Project Management at Orange County Public Schools where she focused upon on-time and under budget implementation of Enterprise level software and tools benefiting the K-12 students within Orange County.
Diana attended the University of Central Florida where she earned a Bachelor of Arts before obtaining a Juris Doctor in Law from Barry University. She also obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of Orlando as well as a Master of Laws in International Taxation and Financial Services from Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Diana is extremely happy to be part of the Valencia family where she can make a positive difference in students’ lives.
