Craft Category: Artifacts

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 navigation, quality of features and content, and perceived impact on student learning and teaching effectiveness. The survey can be modified to fit different contexts, as well as collect feedback from stakeholders who are not direct educators (e.g., students, families).

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June 23, 2023

Digital Tool Evaluation Form from Mendon-Upton Regional School District

Mendon-Upton Regional School District created an evaluation form (using Google Forms) that educators and students can use to self-report their experience with a tool. The questions are differentiated for both roles and ask about impact, usability, engagement, and whether or not the user would recommend the tool.

In this example, the district requested feedback on Seesaw and IXL. To customize this document, district leaders can make a copy of this Google Form and change the names of the tools for which they would like feedback.

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June 23, 2023

Edtech Tools Inventory Spreadsheet

This spreadsheet can be used by school and district teams to conduct an inventory of their edtech tools. The spreadsheet template includes space for general information about the tool, purpose, data collection, and privacy.

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May 23, 2023

Chicopee’s Edtech Tool Gallery

Chicopee Public Schools developed an edtech tool gallery using Airtable. The visual gallery displays all of the tools that the district uses and ones they are reviewing, along with other relevant information such as a brief description of the tool, its category of use, and which schools/grades use it.

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May 23, 2023

Beyond Brick and Mortar Podcast: ASU Prep Digital on Building Relationships and Human Connections in Virtual Learning

In this episode of TLA’s “Beyond Brick and Mortar” podcast series, which features leaders of established virtual and hybrid learning programs from across the U.S. as they discuss what makes their programs a success – and what they had to learn along the way, we chat with Jill Rogier, Head of Schools, Digital, and Betsy Fowler, Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at ASU Prep Digital. Learn about their approach to student-centered supports, flexibility for educators, and ensuring all of their students have a path to post-secondary education.

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May 19, 2023

Beyond Brick and Mortar Podcast: My Tech High’s Tuition-Free & Student-Centered Approach to Virtual Learning

In this episode of TLA’s “Beyond Brick and Mortar” podcast series, which features leaders of established virtual and hybrid learning programs from across the U.S. as they discuss what makes their programs a success – and what they had to learn along the way, we chat with Matt Bowman, founder and CEO at My Tech High. Learn about their innovative model focused on personalizing education to students’ individual goals and learning preferences, offering their students flexibility and a tailored approach to education – all at no cost to families.

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May 19, 2023

Beyond Brick and Mortar Podcast: Map Academy on Healing and Holistic Student Supports

In this episode of TLA’s “Beyond Brick and Mortar” podcast series, which features leaders of established virtual and hybrid learning programs from across the U.S. as they discuss what makes their programs a success – and what they had to learn along the way, we chat with Rachel Babcock, Co-Director and Co-Founder of Map Academy. Learn about their holistic and student-centered approach to education, designed to address the unique needs and life circumstances of students as an alternative high school. Their model weaves together collaborative and cooperative learning, student data, support structures, and crucial programs that help them develop their postsecondary and career readiness in order to attend to myriad aspects of their students’ learning experiences.

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May 19, 2023

Beyond Brick and Mortar Podcast: VLACS on a Mastery-Based Approach in Virtual Learning

In this episode of TLA’s “Beyond Brick and Mortar” podcast series, which features leaders of established virtual and hybrid learning programs from across the U.S. as they discuss what makes their programs a success – and what they had to learn along the way, we chat with Dr. Steve Kossakoski, CEO at Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS). Learn about their mastery-based approach, emphasis on meaningful discussion between students and instructors, and advisors who support students throughout their entire virtual learning journey with the school.

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May 19, 2023
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