Texas school districts and charter schools will use the CLI Engage XML File Download Tool to export pre-K data to upload into TEA’s Early Childhood Data System (ECDS). Texas districts are required to submit beginning-of-year and end-of-year child progress monitoring data. Please note that this ECDS process is different from the kindergarten data process.
2023-2024 ECDS Process for Pre-K Data
- Teachers complete progress monitoring throughout the school year
- For BOY and EOY, districts review data and resolve any errors
- Districts export data from CLI Engage using the XML File Download Tool
- Districts upload XML files to ECDS
ECDS will accept pre-K data beginning Monday, November 13, 2023. Districts can choose to upload BOY data after their initial progress monitoring window closes, followed by EOY data later in the Spring (preferred method). Or, upload both BOY and EOY data together.
Due date for prekindergarten ECDS data: Thursday, June 27, 2024 by 11:59 PM
Your Submission to ECDS
Recommended steps prior to exporting your XML files from CLI Engage:
- Use Student Results Export to download a file of the progress monitoring data from CLI Engage
- Ensure that all students have TSDS IDs (only students with TSDS IDs will be included in the export)
- Ensure that any duplicate students have been removed
- Update and adjust enrollment and withdrawal dates to exclude students who were not enrolled during your assessment window
Submission Details:
- Data from CIRCLE Progress Monitoring from BOY and EOY only, in specific domains (see required measures below)
- For most districts: wave 1 (BOY) and wave 3 (EOY)
- For those using CPM at 4 waves: wave 1 (BOY) and wave 4 (EOY)
- TSDS IDs required for students
- Reports include scores only for students with a valid 10-digit TSDS ID
- Students with missing, invalid, or duplicate TSDS ID are not included
- Assessment window (dates) required
- Reports include scores for both Active and Inactive students with PK grade level
- XML files will not include an overall composite score for “school readiness”
- If your teachers assessed students in English and Spanish, be sure to export XML files for both languages
Required CPM Measures for ECDS
The following table shows the CIRCLE Progress Monitoring measures that will be required for the Early Childhood Data System (ECDS). The measures for this school year have not changed since prior years. For complete reporting to ECDS, organizations must assess the measures listed below at beginning-of-year (known as Wave 1 in CLI Engage) and end-of-year (Wave 3) in prekindergarten classrooms. CLI Engage’s XML export tool automatically creates a report of all required data for uploads into ECDS in the following CIRCLE Progress Monitoring measures.
Recommended Measures for Better Instructional Planning
The following table shows all available CIRCLE Progress Monitoring measures on CLI Engage. CLI and TEA strongly recommend using the following bolded measures in your prekindergarten classrooms at multiple timepoints throughout the school year to capture a more complete snapshot of children’s development.
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This document was last modified on: August 11, 2023