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Empowering Teachers to Pilot Edtech Tools
A district technology team in MA created a process for teachers to propose pilots of new edtech tools in their classrooms
Gathering Family Feedback on Edtech Usage
Edtech tools can serve as a channel to involve families in their students’ lives, strengthen the home-school connection, and provide access to teachers for better communication. School leaders should seek to gather family feedback to ensure all...
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.
Addressing Teacher and Student Capacity with Technology
For students to succeed in a virtual/hybrid learning environment, it is essential for schools to improve both teacher and student capacity with technology. This Insight explores the research behind this critical lever and real-world case studies of...
Family Engagement in Virtual and Hybrid Learning
For students to succeed in a virtual/hybrid learning environment, it is vital that schools put support structures in place that inform, encourage, and support families as an integral part of their child’s learning experience. This Insight explores...
Learner-Centered Design in Virtual and Hybrid Learning
For students to succeed in a virtual/hybrid learning environment, it is essential for schools and teachers to implement learner-centered design practices. This Insight explores the research behind this critical lever and real-world case studies of...
Building Capacity With an Edtech Champions Program
Edtech champions programs provide a promising way for schools and systems to increase capacity for edtech support in schools, provide leadership opportunities for early-adopter staff, and foster a cross-school systems network of edtech leaders.
Resources for the K-12 Education Sector to Prepare for the NTIA Digital Equity Funds
In 2024, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will announce new programs to help eligible entities such as schools and systems pursue activities to advance digital equity in their communities. Several organizations...
Supporting Student Nutrition in Virtual and Hybrid Settings: Lessons from Addressing the Digital Divide
Virtual learners often can't access the same level of nutritional support as their in-person peers. This insight helps virtual and hybrid school and system leaders tackle this challenge.
Steps to Conduct a Policy Context Evaluation
This resource for education leaders aims to provide step-by-step guidance toward addressing policy in order to establish sustainable K-12 programs and transformation.
Digital Design: How can leaders build educator capacity to leverage technology as a core component of instruction?
This Problem of Practice offers school leaders three approaches to ensure all teachers have access to the resources, support, and capacity needed to effectively integrate technology into their classrooms.