Maximize the Value of Your Tech

The Design

The VATT highlights three progressive Technology Value Adds, which represent research-backed benefits that can be gained from effective tech-enabled practice: gained capacity, increased effectiveness, and expanded possibilities.

The framework focuses on three “Areas of Impact” that reflect the primary responsibilities of educators across various contexts, including but not limited to content area, grade level, and geography.

  • Teaching & Learning

  • Classroom Community & Culture

  • Practice & Growth

The Areas of Impact align to common instructional and teacher evaluation frameworks as well as broad categories of education technology products and/or tech use cases within the marketplace.

  • Teachers often cite a lack of time, capacity, and/or resources as a constraint to increasing effectiveness across multiple areas of practice. The organizing and processing capabilities inherent to technology tools and platforms provide a level of efficiency to completing tasks, organizing and retrieving data, and sharing information that is unparalleled. If technology can add or stabilize capacity in one area, it provides a critical lever and enabler in increasing the effectiveness of another

  • Best practices in technology-enhanced teaching have the power to enable better learning outcomes for students as they are comprehensively diagnostic, individually adaptable, and immediately responsive. In addition, teachers are able to access clearly defined learning analytics to support their own reflective practices.

  • Technology holds the key students need to be innovative and transformational in our current society. A teacher’s ability to harness the possibilities embedded in digital resources empowers students to exercise the fullness of their strengths as they demonstrate their learning.

Technology's power to optimize teaching and learning opens up possibilities for new ways to engage with curriculum and content.

Technology can support creating safe, supportive learning communities where all students belong and thrive, including in a digital environment.

Teachers deserve to learn in ways that foster their own practice and growth as professionals. Technology has advanced teachers’ access to their professional learning: the topics, the structure and style, the timing, and the facilitators and methods for how they engage.

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