Half of student data breaches occur in vendor systems, not district systems. This is the result of applications migrating to the cloud, when means district data is spread across hundreds of vendor systems. This data sprawl is a cybersecurity risk to schools and vendor alike.

The SchoolDay Collection, from Global Grid for Learning (GG4L), is a community of early-adopter vendors that have been certified to operate through data-free integrations. The new SchoolDay Collection advances the goal of protecting student data privacy in the education ecosystem.

GG4L has partnered with 1EdTech to advance the adoption of a PII-free, or Zero Trust, ecosystem. GG4L and 1EdTech invite districts and vendors to collaborate on the OneRoster Privacy specification through the active workgroup.

The Collection uses GG4L’s School Passport, which has over 36,000 school clients, and is a primary data exchange in education for hundreds of SaaS vendors. Over the past two years the company has begun the journey to transform the EdTech ecosystem by placing student data privacy at the core of the platform. School Passport is the only data exchange in Education that tackles the problem of data sprawl.

Since no data is shared, districts are able to streamline their processes for evaluating and deploying new tools. Districts can safely implement trials of Collection vendors, as well as leverage partners, like AWS, to quickly procure these EdTech tools.