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Follow on Google News |  Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community joins Project Unicorn Steering CommitteeBy: A4L Community "Members of the Access 4 Learning Community are thrilled to become a partner in the work of Project Unicorn," states Steve Smith, Cambridge Public Schools CIO and Co-Lead, A4L North American Management Board. "The new A4L strategic mission is to help marketplace providers develop solutions for end users using openly developed technical standards – no matter where they come from! In addition A4L's work in the area of student data privacy through the Student Data Privacy Consortium is a perfect fit for Project Unicorn's work moving forward." The Project Unicorn's Steering Committee's mission is to "use data to create better outcomes for students, save time for teachers, and increase efficiencies for schools. We've come together to create an uncommon alliance dedicated to furthering interoperability within the K-12 education space." The A4L's Community focus is on "enabling schools to better utilize learning information by implementing technology in a manner that leverages the promise and capabilities of interoperability between disparate applications." "The A4L Community is excited to partner with Project Unicorn in addressing persistent and new issues in the identification, management, movement and usage of educational information" The A4L Community has more than 20 years of experience in the interoperability space through the development of the SIF Specifications focused on K12 interoperability. The A4L Community has also embarked on industry leading work in student data privacy and security. The Community is excited to join the Steering Committee and add this work to the growing set of resources for the Project Unicorn community. To find out more about Project Unicorn, please go to: https://www.projunicorn.org/ About the Access 4 Learning Community There is no other global community made up of educational policymakers, marketplace product and service providers and the customers they serve, collaborating daily to address real word learning information and resource issues. The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, previously the SIF Association, is a unique, non-profit collaboration composed of schools, districts, local authorities, states, US and International Ministries of Education, software vendors and consultants who collectively address all aspects of learning information management and access to support learning. The A4L Community is "Powered by SIF" Specifications as its major technical tool to allow for this management and access simply, securely and in a scalable, standard way regardless of the platform hosting those applications. The Access 4 Learning Community has united these education technology end users and providers in an unprecedented effort to give teachers more time to do what they do best: teach. For further information, visit http://www.A4L.org About Project Unicorn Project Unicorn is an effort to improve data interoperability within K-12 education. We aim to create a community of innovators who make the broader case for secure interoperability by determining shared priorities, working in partnership with school systems and vendors to understand its importance and benefits, creating a demand side push for interoperability through partnerships, and educating buyers to consider the total cost of ownership through informed comparison of vendors. Project Unicorn does not endorse a specific product or data standard but instead is an educational advocacy initiative dedicated to the secure, controlled interchange of data. For more information, visit: http://www.projunicorn.org/ End
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