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School Data Leadership Association

A California K-12 Support Community

We connect education, data, leadership, technology, and operations—because the hardest school problems rarely stay inside one department.

Explore California-focused guidance, real-world systems, practical tools, professional perspectives, and community experience created for the people who keep schools working.

Oh, and we're NOT a company. We're a 501(c)3 non-profit built and staffed totally by volunteers.

Our 1,300 members come from a wide range of roles that support the essential “back-office” work to support schools. We take the data seriously—but we also try to have a little fun with it. (Yes, our mascot is the “Headache Guy!”) Membership is free and open to anyone with a school district or vendor email address.

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SDLA becomes more useful when school and district practitioners tell us what is changing, what is missing, and what is making the work harder than it should be.

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