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Edtech Grading Rubric
This grading rubric (modified from LearnPlatform’s EdTech Grading Rubric) helps collect feedback from educators around edtech tools, including background criteria such as duration and frequency of use, technical criteria such as ease of use and...
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Evaluating Edtech Tools
Districts must carefully consider whether edtech tools are meeting their intended goals by gauging the impact, adoption, satisfaction, and engagement of each product. Districts can utilize a variety of methods to collect data in order to better...
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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.
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Running an Effective Pilot Program
This document provides a step-by-step approach to designing and executing an edtech pilot program, reflecting on the data collected, and deciding whether to ditch, scale, or iterate on a tool. Users can utilize this note-taking resource to capture...
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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
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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...
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Strategies for Equitably Analyzing Disciplinary Data
Disciplinary data can be used by stakeholders to understand how and to what extent disciplinary practices are occurring within their school or district and advocate for equitable practices for students.
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Driving EdTech Systems: Natick Public Schools
Natick Public Schools participated in the EdTech Peer Learning Cohort facilitated by The Learning Accelerator (TLA) in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Educational Technology.
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Driving EdTech Systems: Racial Equity
This strategy supports users of the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation in reflecting on opportunities to promote racial equity within their edtech systems and practices.
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Report: Where, Why, How: Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape
This report from The Learning Accelerator (TLA), “Where, Why, How: Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape,” explores the current state of virtual and hybrid learning models across the United States and their viability as a...
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Executive Summary: Where, Why, How - Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape
This is the Executive summary for a report from The Learning Accelerator (TLA), “Where, Why, How: Deepening Analysis of the U.S. K-12 Virtual Learning Landscape,” which explores the current state of virtual and hybrid learning models across the...
