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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
Guides
Data Advocacy: Who Uses Data for Advocacy
To understand how best to leverage data for advocacy purposes, it is first necessary to identify key stakeholders and understand the types of data that they can access. Leaders, educators, students, families, and community members have a vested...
Strategies
Accessing Student Data as a Family or Community Member for Advocacy
The ability to access and utilize data for families and community members is critical for advocating for students. While, accessing data as a family or community member may seem overwhelming or complex, there are public sources that are openly...
Teaching Practices
Digital Access: How can leaders ensure that every student can access the digital tools they need to develop as expert learners?
This problem of practice offers school leaders three approaches to ensure each student has the ability to use digital tools effectively, safely, and responsibly with consistent access across both home and school settings.
Teaching Practices
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.
Artifacts
Self-Assessment: Equitable EdTech Systems
This self-assessment mirrors the structure of the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation, distilling foundational concepts into a series of statements about users’ edtech practices. Using a modified version of...
Strategies
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.
Teaching Practices
Digital Use: How can leaders ensure students actively use technology as a core learning component?
This problem of practice offers school leaders three strategies to close the “digital use divide,” ensuring each student has the ability and opportunity to actively and powerfully use technology as a core component of their learning.
Strategies
Using Surveys to Guide AI Literacy and Instructional Practice
This strategy outlines how schools and districts can use surveys to assess AI literacy, guide professional development, shape instructional policies, and support effective AI integration in the classroom.
Artifacts
Starting Smart with AI: A Quick Guide for State Education Agency Leaders
This brief highlights the critical role state education agencies can play in supporting foundational AI integration across districts. It provides specific questions and vetted tools to help SEAs assess local needs, identify gaps, and coordinate...
Artifacts
Starting Smart with AI: A Quick Guide for School and System Leaders
This brief helps local education agency (LEA) leaders take their first steps toward thoughtful AI integration in K-12 education. Framed around foundational questions and actionable steps using the Hop, Skip, Leapfrog model, it supports systems in...
