Apr 08, 2025
Data monitoring leads to data compliance.
What is data monitoring?
- Looking for data discrepancies in CALPADS.
- Looking for data anomalies requiring resolution.
- Looking for compliance issues ahead of time and notifying staff.
- Looking for compliance issues already in place and ensuring meeting delay reasons are in place and documented.
- Reminding staff to fill out DRDP ratings in SIRAS.
- Sending data monthly to CALPADS.
- Resolving posted errors and warnings.
- Researching compliance findings in the 16.21 report.
- Printing monthly compliance reports from SIRAS for progress tracking.
- Printing monthly indicator reports from SIRAS for progress tracking.
- Exporting SIRAS snapshot data monthly for compliance monitoring.
- Exporting SIRAS snapshot data monthly for caseload monitoring.
- Printing end of year reports for meeting totals.
- Printing out/downloading out of home care lists quarterly.
- Printing out/downloading credentialing audit searches quarterly.
- Printing out low incidence reports at the end of the year.
How to succeed in data monitoring:
- Don't put it off, it needs to be done on a recurring basis.
- If your user role is district or school SPED Clerk, this is an expected task for this role.
- If you feel your position doesn't allow you the time to do this, please contacts support@sirassystems.com for help.
- Understand errors and warnings on existing data.
- Understand active status and what it implies.
- Understand what pending is in SIRAS
- Do the tasks and resolve as many errors as you can each month!
- Ask questions if you get stuck.
- Data needs to be sent monthly from SIRAS to CALPADS.
How to do data monitoring:
- Monitoring the Siras Home Page for IEP team student assignment or removal requests.
- Monitoring the Siras Home Page for student record transfer requests.
- Monitoring the Siras Home Page for user transfer requests.
- Review the SPED staff focus this month to get overview.
- Review the data monitoring checklist
- Look for plan adoptions when you review 16.21 in CALPADS
- Look for meetings that need meeting delay reasons in the 16.21 report in CALPADS.
- Look for meetings that appear overdue in CALPADS but aren't and just need a meeting in progress record sent.
- Review the data discrepancies in CALPADS.
- Prior to summer, review the Before rollover preparation article
- After the summer break, review the After rollover what to do article
- Use the DRDP helpsheet to ensure DRDP ratings are collected in timely manner
- Preparing CAASPP and ELPAC data for TOMS
- Send data to System Improvements.
- Export data files monthly from SIRAS for analysis.
- Print indicator reports monthly from SIRAS for analysis.
Compliance Monitoring Tasks
Census Day Monitoring:
Active Status = active/pending, then predefined Student and Service data exports. Store securely
FTE Numbers must come from LEA Approved 16.14 extract from CALPADS!
- Preparing for Fall 1
- Preparing for EOY 4
- Do the Census Day data extract
- Run Age by Disability Report
- Run Disability by Plan Type 16.12 Report
- Run Disability by Federal Setting 16.13 Report
- Run Service by Disability 16.15 Report
- 16.22 Non Participation Help
- Plus any other local reports needed for estimates.
Projections and Analysis
- How to find all annuals or triennials overdue as of Fall 1 or 6/30/2025
- I want to find meetings that were held late
- How do I monitor the caseload totals of providers in my district?
- How do we find recent eligible not participating preschoolers entering TK now?