My background is interdisciplinary social sciences with major focuses on pollical economy, social psychology applied towards education. Currently am a social scientist working with the Texas Education Agency, Office of Special Populations. Among other things, we have been developing a risk model to help TEA administrators identify LEAs that are in need of supports prior to the LEA under achieving across a variety of indicators. We are also building a data strategy so that staff member have efficient access to the information they need in the formats that they need.