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.

  • AI reduces the routine, time-consuming work that has limited instructional quality.

    When automated systems handle drafting, data processing, translation, and material prep, educators regain time and focus for high-impact, relationship- centered work. This shift expands human capacity while preserving professional judgment, ensuring that greater efficiency strengthens the core craft of teaching.

  • AI can strengthen rigor, responsiveness, and opportunity when educators guide its use. These tools surface learning patterns, give real-time feedback, and help tailor instruction, but their outputs still need to be checked for accuracy, bias, and fit.

    With that oversight, teachers can make quicker, clearer decisions while preserving productive struggle, deep thinking, and the craft of teaching. The result is stronger instruction and more personalized support for every learner.

  • AI makes new kinds of learning and creative work possible.

    Students can collaborate with intelligent tools, model complex ideas, and produce rich multimedia projects that were once hard to access. This broadens what teachers can design and shifts their role toward guiding and facilitating deeper inquiry. The result is instruction that pushes beyond task completion toward deeper understanding, creativity, and higher order problem solving.

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