Statewide Student Management System (SSMS)

Implementation Status Update as of 9/18/06

Phase I - III:  Ninety-nine school districts, three State Special Schools and the Department of Children’s Services are involved in live implementation of the SSMS (StarStudent and EasyIEP) during the 2006-07 school year.  Phase III districts are in the process of completing data conversion for the Academic History module, the last component of the implementation process.

Phase IV:  Sixteen school districts are scheduled to come onboard for the 2007-08 school year.  Welcome Packets that outline the training plan and data conversion process for StarStudent are being finalized for distribution.

• The Project Team will conduct three regional Phase IV Kick-Off sessions across the state in mid-November that will provide the districts with an overview of the implementation rollout plan for data conversion and training, including a timeline and the expectations for making the transition to StarStudent and EasyIEP.
• Introductory AA (Application Administrator) WebEx training will begin in November 2006 followed by more detailed regional training for AA’s beginning in January of 2007.
• These districts will begin scheduling training in January 2007 in preparation for scheduling students into SSMS for the 2007-08 school year.
• Regional training sessions for EasyIEP administrators and end users are scheduled to begin in January 2007 as well.
• Additional StarStudent training will occur later in the school year and into the summer.
• The initial preparation for the data conversion process (conference calls with each district) will begin in November as well.

Phase IV Districts