This article from The Edvocate outlines nine ways in which educators and leaders can take steps to understand the regulations regarding student data and to ensure they are putting in place the right data safeguards.
This post on the TLA Blog, authored by Jilliam Joe, explores how technology can be used deliberately and thoughtfully to complement education innovation, with a particular focus on topics of equity and social-emotional learning.
Some super sticky projects – namely those involving tape – may require advanced technologies such as tweezers. USE CAUTION, but acetone is an excellent resource for final cleaning to remove all adhesive properties left by the goop.
This toolbox contains four critical tools for removing even the most persistent goop, glop, or schmutz. Creative use may be required.
This musicals/plays tracker allows a user to document which shows they have seen. By using Google Sheets’ formulas, a data sheet can be built to provide a summary of the data.
This Self-Assessment Tool is intended to foster productive dialogue within leadership teams in an iterative manner. Whether you are just beginning to think about digital equity or have been working on it for years, cycling through this tool will help to clarify vision and strategy, articulate needs, and identify areas for improvement. With your team assembled, as you work through the guide, self-assess to see where you might be on your digital equity journey. This tool has been created to support teams when using The Learning Accelerator’s Digital Equity Guide.
The digital equity audit process and tools are intended to foster productive dialogue within leadership teams in an iterative manner. Whether you are just beginning to think about digital equity or have been working on it for years, cycling through this workbook and the accompanying Self-Assessment Tool will help to clarify your vision and strategy, articulate needs, and identify areas for improvement. Each section includes questions to support team reflection as well as a template for exploring how you might make change(s) to improve. This tool has been created to support teams when using The Learning Accelerator’s Digital Equity Guide.
The Digital Equity Checklist serves as a guide to support district leaders in
meeting the needs of every student with a direct focus on meeting the needs of all students. This checklist highlights six primary categories that include and extend beyond just providing students with devices and internet access.
This toolkit is designed to provide digestible bits of information for consideration as districts move through the planning process. We realize that each school district and learning community is different. We developed this toolkit with input from Verizon Innovative Learning Schools partner districts, and incorporated our own knowledge as former school district IT leaders, representing decades of experience, to serve as a source of inspiration and insight for planning.
On this final episode of What Will We Take With Us?, a series featuring our conversations with education leaders across the United States on how they grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic in K-12 education, we speak with Scott Muri, Superintendent of Ector County Independent School District in Texas, about how leaders worked to make the most of the pandemic to accelerate the implementation of goals that benefitted the entire school community, ranging from expanding connectivity and internet access, to focusing on personalized professional development, to forging stronger, more meaningful connections between schools and student families.
