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Tool: Compare and Connect
Compare & Connect K-12 makes broadband and pricing data transparent so that state and school district leaders have the information they need to get more bandwidth for their broadband budget in order to support digital learning today and in the...
Edtech Evaluation - EdTech Systems Guide
This nine-part edtech evaluation process was developed as part of The Learning Accelerator (TLA)’s partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Educational Technology and is included in TLA’s EdTech...
Centralizing Procurement Information to Enable Decentralized Choices
Helping teachers and schools make effective technology procurement choices.
From Digital Access to Digital Equity: Critical Barriers That Leaders and Policymakers Must Address to Move Beyond “Boxes & Wires”
This report urges leaders and policymakers to address five critical barriers to digital equity, moving beyond a sole focus on internet access and devices. These barriers include digital redlining, the digital use divide, privacy taxes, adult bias,...
Advice: EducationSuperHighway
EducationSuperHighway is the leading nonprofit focused on upgrading the Internet access in every public school classroom in America.
Conducting an Edtech Inventory
Before building or strengthening edtech processes, school and system leaders need to first take stock of what tools currently exist in their school system.
Technology & Data Infrastructure
Technology Infrastructure Connectivity Hardware Procurement Network Systems Data Infrastructure Data Interoperability Data Privacy & Security
Capturing Teachers’ Thoughts on Technology Usage
Teachers can offer valuable insights on whether devices and tools effectively meet student needs for learning, and therefore should be regularly included in the evaluation process for technology decisions.
“Fast and Furious” vs. “Slow and Steady”: How fast should we be moving from pilot to scale? What will help us best achieve sustainability?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of accelerating versus slowing down the pace of implementation to achieve sustainability and offers examples of the way systems across the country have managed this tension.
How Do Edtech Products “Stack” Up?: Improving Quality in Virtual and Hybrid Learning Through Technology
This resource distills learnings about what must be true for edtech to promote virtual and hybrid learning program quality and offers leaders a series of questions to ask themselves when considering their own edtech products’ ability to do so.
Centralized vs. Decentralized Implementation: How do we decide what the district should hold tight vs. loose?
This guide unpacks the relative benefits of centralized or decentralized implementation of new instructional models and offers examples of the way systems across the county have managed this tension.