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Driving EdTech Systems: Digital Accessibility
This strategy supports users of the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation users in reflecting on and strengthening their school or system’s edtech practices around accessibility.
Five Whys for EdTech Systems Challenge Root Cause Analysis
Use this activity to uncover root causes for edtech systems challenges.
Developing AI Guidance for Your School or School System
Explore how schools and districts can develop clear, flexible AI guidance through collaborative stakeholder engagement, foundational policies, and iterative implementation. Featuring an example from Agua Fria Union High School District, this...
Learning Acceleration: From Intervention to Reimagination
This research brief synthesizes insights from state and district education leaders to understand how learning acceleration is currently defined and implemented across K–12 systems. It identifies five key areas of inquiry shaping the future of...
Green Lanyards
This strategy encourages students to collaborate by designating leaders in the classroom with green lanyards.
COSN: Rethinking Acceptable Use Policies to Enable Digital Learning: A Guide for School Districts
This whitepaper came out of a COSN Leadership Initiative.
Advice: Pick a framework for change management
Leaders seeking to drive change can ground their work in specific, structured processes developed by researchers and professional development organizations.
Change Management at Summit Public Schools
Summit Public Schools uses an eight-step framework created by researcher John Kotter to lead and manage change.
Guide: Blended Learning Implementation Guide 3.0
The Learning Accelerator and Getting Smart joined with DLN to update this popular guide. Version 3.0 reflects feedback from schools and districts, developments in the field, and new educational technology trends.
Rhode Island Design-Based Education Strategic Planning Process
Rhode Island developed and implemented a design-based, community-based, crowd-sourced strategic plan for public education. Here they share the narrative, process, and key materials used in the four phase process.
Advice: Policies to Support Competency-Based Learning
State leaders must align policies to support transformation. This policy brief provides multiple concrete, actionable recommendations for state policymakers including those for creating competency-based education systems.