Colleges, systems, and states have identified collecting data on parenting students as a necessary step to support educational opportunities for adults and families. In recent years, the states of California, Illinois, Oregon, and Texas have moved to routinely track college students’ parenting status, and the US House of Representatives recently considered relevant legislation. The Data-to-Action (D2A) Campaign for Parenting Students seeks to help colleges in California, Illinois, and Oregon satisfy current legislative requirements by working with a set of grantee institutions and systems to efficiently collect parenting-status data. However, each state, college, and postsecondary institution has different considerations when it comes to collecting data on students’ parenting status. These considerations can affect priorities, methodology, question wording, data storage, and even the definition of parenting students. Based on D2A work and ongoing research, this brief informs practitioners, policymakers, and legislators about the technical considerations for parenting student data collection and offers recommendations. It also examines the importance of sharing power with students during the data-collection process and how to minimize data-collection-related threats to students. This is version 1.0 of these recommendations, and we anticipate updating this resource with future versions as the D2A Campaign progresses.