Data Constellation
Bring in district documents and data so Polaris can use them when preparing your reports
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Data Constellation is a feature we're actively building. The video on this page previews how it will work. If you'd like early access or want to weigh in on the design, reach out to your Polaris team.
Listening data is most useful in context. The Data Constellation is where you bring in the other things your district is already working with — strategic plans, survey results, classroom feedback forms — so Polaris can pull from them when it makes sense for your reports.
What it does
Your Data Constellation is a small library of documents you've decided are worth surrounding your listening sessions with. When you ask Polaris a question, or when we draft your next listening report, we'll draw on these documents alongside the student conversations.
We will pull from this data when applicable to supplement your reports with nearly anything:
- 1, 5, and 10-year district plans
- Current quantitative data — survey results, attendance, grades
- Feedback forms from individual classes
- Curriculum maps, vision documents, climate plans
- Anything else that relates to what your students are talking about in their empathy interviews
The idea is that your reports stop being just "what students said this season" and start being "what students said, in the context of what your district is actually working on."
Adding files
From the Data Constellation page, hit the + Add files button. You can pull in:
- Files from your computer —
.docx,.pdf,.xlsx, plain text. - Google Drive — direct connection so updates to a shared Drive doc flow through without you re-uploading.
Files are searchable and citable. When Polaris draws on a document in a report or in a search result, you'll see which file the context came from.
When to use it
Add a document whenever its content might shape how a future report is read. A few examples we've seen:
- A district strategic plan, so themes from student voice can be mapped back to district goals.
- Recent climate-survey numbers, so the qualitative findings sit next to the quantitative ones.
- Class-specific feedback forms, so a report on instructional quality can connect themes to the classes students were referring to.
You don't need a huge library. A handful of well-chosen documents is usually more useful than dozens of loosely related ones.