Getting Started

No two Ed-Fi implementations look exactly alike. Each agency has their own priorities and specific challenges that they are attempting to solve with interoperability. That said, the most successful Ed-Fi implementations share many of the same genes, the same foundation. As the Ed-Fi Community has grown, we've seen best practices and patterns of success emerge.

Our team has collected valuable field knowledge as we've helped local education agencies, state education agencies, technology providers, collaboratives, and other organizations get running on Ed-Fi. Now, Ed-Fi has a large enough sample size, with enough use case variety, to provide some universal implementation guidance for the benefit of all Ed-Fi users.

Our team has done the work to document their knowledge on Ed-Fi implementation best practices. This includes information about how to identify your priority use case, the areas where interoperability can offer a robust solution, how to build an effective implementation team, and resources to help you move through implementation smoothly.

We're calling these training resources the Implementation Playbooks.