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# Develop Your Own Approach to Modeling Your School

Identify the best way to set up your school’s data in the K-12 Architecture Kit.

Many schools share a common approach to thinking about data, with the student at the center. This approach to data modeling is central to Education Data Architecture (EDA), which provides a common architecture for visualizing a full picture of students’ relationships and experiences—from individual relationships with people at the school and outside the school, to academics, to extracurricular activities.

EDA is designed to support the entire K-20 lifecycle. For K-12 institutions, your common use cases obviously look different than the ones from higher education. That’s where K-12 Architecture Kit comes in! We provide some pre-configured tools to help you build on top of EDA, along with a data framework that’s flexible enough for you to tailor it for _your_ school’s and _your_ students’ unique needs.

Our goal is to help you think about the best way to set up your own school's data in K-12 Architecture Kit. As you learn about Valley Elementary's setup, consider how your data might fit into a similar model and look for places where it might not. We'll call out different potential approaches and explain some of the considerations that go into choosing one over another.