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Equitable EdTech Systems – Online Survey Template for Stakeholders

This survey template adapts the EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation and can be built using users’ preferred survey software to collect stakeholder input. This will inform your understanding of your school/systems edtech processes. The information collected using this survey will help leaders complete the EdTech Systems Guide-aligned self-assessment to identify potential areas to target for systems-level process improvements.

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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 the Stoplight Protocol from DataWise, users indicate how often they engage in each practice – consistently, in pockets, or not at all. Additionally, it provides space for users to add evidence to support their ratings and observations or to capture reflections. The information collected in this worksheet will help leaders identify potential areas to target for systems-level process improvements.

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Online Learning Readiness Assessment

This readiness matrix from Montana Digital Academy (MTDA) is used by site facilitators, counselors, and administrators to evaluate and discuss how prepared a potential online student is to participate in virtual learning, and the supports the student might need to succeed.

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Cajon Valley Home School Program

Cajon Valley Home School is a part of Cajon Valley Union School District and offers two virtual program options: synchronous teacher-led learning for grades 4-8 and homeschooling led by families for grades K-5.

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Montana Digital Academy

Montana Digital Academy is a state virtual school that provides supplemental, flexible coursework options, for both original and college credit, serving students across Montana public schools.

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Rethinking Compensation in Innovative Learning Models

Fully virtual and hybrid learning contexts present an incredible opportunity to rethink educator compensation as a tool for recruiting and retaining effective, high-quality teachers and responding to a call for greater professionalization in the field. This policy brief from The Learning Accelerator (TLA) explores three key components – salary and benefits, professional opportunities and growth, and working conditions – and how they factor into compensation that responds to the needs and expertise of educators.

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Aurora Institute’s 2024 State Policy Priorities

The Aurora Institute has released state policy recommendations to enable our education system to transition from an industrial age “one-size-fits-all” model, to a future-focused model that supports education innovation, student agency, builds knowledge, and prioritizes mastery of skills and knowledge over seat time.

The six identified policy shifts must occur to transform education for all learners–especially those who have been underserved by the current system. The priorities include:

  • Establish a vision by developing a Profile of a Graduate
  • Create the conditions for equitable learner-centered, competency-based education systems
  • Transform systems of assessments
  • Align accountability and data systems
  • Support educators to thrive in a competency-based system
  • Redesign learning experiences

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