This is NOT a dashboard!!! @GovBillLee and @TNedu Commissioner @SchwinnTeach keep talking about having created a "dashboard" to track #COVID19 closings. But it was clear during yesterday's news briefing that Lee doesn't really understand what his administration is posting. 1/

A dashboard is, by definition, "a type of graphical user interface which often provides *** AT-A-GLANCE *** views of key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant to a particular objective or business process." 2/

Yesterday, Lee's team said that there were already nine schools that had closed to in-person learning due to COVID concerns. How do we know which schools? The governor said to go to the "dashboard." 3/

To get any information from this @TNedu "dashboard," you must type the names of each school district one by one. Tennessee has *** 137 *** school districts. 4/

And it isn't even as simple as typing in the names of 137 school districts. After the gov's news briefing, I asked @SchwinnTeach how I was supposed to find those nine schools from her "dashboard." She gave me the district names. One of them: Rutherford. 5/

Type "Rutherford" into @GovBillLee's "dashboard," and you get two options for clicking: "instructional models" and "district website." Suddenly, 137 potential sources for this information has become 274!!! 6/

Click on instructional models on this "dashboard" and you discover that Christiana Middle School is closed for in-person learning until August 24th.
But @SchwinnTeach told me there were TWO schools in Rutherford County that were closed. 7/

So that means you also have to click on "district website" -- another 137 clicks! That gives you the link to the website -- which means (you guessed it!) another 137 clicks! 8/

For those keeping count, we are now up to *** 548 *** potential clicks.
But.
We.
Are.
Not.
Finished. 9/

Rutherford lists its school closings on its "News and Announcements" page. If every district does this, then we are talking about, yes, another 137 clicks!!! 10/

Now we are up to a potential 685 clicks to get information from the @TNedu "dashboard."
I repeat: This is NOT a dashboard! 11/

Ironically, @GovBillLee and @SchwinnTeach cite this "dashboard" as a demonstration of their #COVID19 transparency. 12/12

BTW, if you want to engage in this fun little exercise yourself, here's a link to the "dashboard." https://www.tn.gov/education/district-technology/district-instructional-model.html

Excellent analogy! https://twitter.com/rogerabramson/status/1296788614383312900?s=20