Version 3.0 of the Empowered Superintendent Toolkit guides leaders through ed tech’s challenges. This is a CoSN initiative dedicated to helping superintendents, aspiring superintendents and district leadership teams build their knowledge, skills and confidence as technology leaders.
This toolkit provides leaders with a multi-step decision-making process, practical tools, and numerous examples for setting a trajectory of positive change, moving assertively toward achievement of student learning and improvement goals.
Digital Badge Systems offers several policy recommendations for introducing digital badge programs to a greater number of school districts. The report also recommends safeguards at the state level to ensure competency-based learning does not lead to at-risk students falling behind their peers and widening of achievement gaps.
This is a national research and advisory institute that reports on the current trends and policy efforts that guide educational technology in the US. By describing how school districts, schools, and individual teachers can work together to modernize the learning environment, these reports can be helpful for identifying key strategies to be included during planning and implementation.
The Digital Learning Rubric provides a means for district or school leadership teams to engage in a process of self-reflection and discussion in order to establish a shared vision for digital learning initiatives. Its intended purpose is to assist in assessing needs and setting goals for the use of technology in the classroom to support student achievement.
The Open Badges Infrastructure is a standard and a platform for issuing, storing, and sharing “micro-credentials,” recognition for skills and achievements that learners have completed.
This initiative provides a competency-based approach to assessing teaching practices, uses expert and peer reviews to ensure a rigorous standard and creates a clearinghouse where teachers can share best practices.
