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Victoria Sotero

Victoria Sotero

Supervisor of Instructional Services at Ulster BOCES; data analytics and professional development specialist focused on humanizing educational data.

Jun 5, 2026

30:08
Even though we might think, "Oh, attendance." Would you call attendance warm data?
30:12
The outcome of it, like the, the number of days that a child misses, that's a cold data piece.
30:17
All the many reasons why, and it is very complicated, chronic absenteeism.
30:21
Goes from everything from, like, family issues, not having a car, health, wellness, patterns of chronic absenteeism in the classroom, in the district, for the family.
30:31
Even something as simple as laundry.
30:33
So in one of the districts that I'm working in, we do a lot for chronic absenteeism.
30:38
When you start getting under and you, you have to listen to the stories of the families to actually get the good warm data to be able to act.
31:31
Yes

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