We provide professional development to data managers and others who work with K-12 and post-secondary education data.
The 2025-2026 Data Fellowship has already started. This page provides more information about the fellowship, data resources, and upcoming sessions.
New Orleans Data Fellowship
The New Orleans High School Data Fellowship is a professional development program for high school and CMO-level data managers or anyone with an interest in data for public education. This fellowship is open to anyone and everyone working with or managing high school data in the New Orleans Public School sector. We want to ensure the ability for successful accessibility, tracking, analyzing, and responding to the following types of high school and post-secondary data.
Primary Focuses:
FAFSA Completion Rates
College Acceptance and Enrollment Rates
Supplementary Focuses:
High School Graduation Rates
Financial Aid Data
Student Performance and Growth Data
Student Demographic Data
What the Cowen Institute Will Provide
Throughout the collaborative, the Cowen Institute will provide:
Combination of 4 in-person and remote sessions
Cover costs of NSC licenses for your institution
A $1,000 stipend for one participant per organization who attends all sessions and analyzes data to complete the fellowship (alternatively, this can be split among participants if you'd like more than one person to participate from your school/CMO)
Increased data literacy and capacity
Resources
Harvard Strategic Data Project Resources
Harvard University’s SDP program builds capacity among education researchers, data managers, and analysts. They have a wealth of resources available to help workers build data skills and data culture within their organizations.
OpenSDP is a github online community for sharing high quality education analytic tools including STATA and R code.
The Strategic Data Rubric helps organizations think through their data use and data culture.
The Toolkit for Effective Data Use provides a step-by-step tutorial to gathering, cleaning, and analyzing data and provides practice data and tools so you can work alongside the tutorial.
Google and Excel Cheat Sheets
Need help remembering functions and formulas in Excel and Google Sheets? Print them out and pin ‘em on the wall.
Trainings and Courses
Time to level up? A list of free courses and tutorials are listed below.
Excel VBA (2 hours)- Learn the basics of Excel’s programming language.
Google Sheets (5 hours) - Getting started with google sheets
Google Data Analytics Course (6 months) - A fully comprehensive course for those wanting to move into data analytics.
Google Data Studio - Introduction course to get you started with this data visualization tool.
Upcoming meetings
The Data Fellowship will begin in January 2025. If you are interested in joining, email us with any questions.
2025-2026 Dates:
January 16, 2025
March 13, 2025
April 17, 2025
May 15, 2025