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Strategies
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.
Strategies
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
Strategies
Asynchronous Learning Modules for Educators
Cambridge Public Schools created asynchronous learning modules for their teachers to provide training around edtech tools and edtech integration pedagogical practices. Educators can “build their own” professional learning experience by combining...
Artifacts
Understanding By Design (UbD) Framework
The Understanding By Design (UbD) framework is a planning resource that supports the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. UbD leads teachers through three stages when designing learning experiences: Identify desired results...
Strategies
Two Steps to Improve Lesson Planning Through Instructional Design
By utilizing and applying ideas and steps from instructional design, teachers can create better learning experiences that lead students toward rigorous application and more meaningful outcomes.
Guides
Data Advocacy: Getting Started
Data plays an integral role in informing districts, schools, and communities of successful trends and in identifying critical areas for improvement. It can also play an important role in advocating for change. However, given the complexity and...
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...
Guides
Data Advocacy: Why Use Data for Advocacy
Stakeholders advocate for varying reasons; however, the purpose of advocacy should be anchored in an equitable vision for learners. Using a research-based framework helps stakeholders leverage data to tell the story of historic and current...
Guides
Data Advocacy: How to Use Data for Advocacy
The Right Data Perspective: WHAT is Needed for Successful Advocacy Districts, families, and community groups have varying levels of access to data, ranging from student demographics to behavior and disciplinary data to measures of academic...
Artifacts
Edtech Stack Reflection Checklist
Leaders of virtual and hybrid programs can use this checklist to audit their program’s edtech stacks. This tool is designed to produce actionable insights about where edtech products support overall virtual and hybrid program quality. Additional...
Spotlights & Case Studies
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.
