We are leading a groundbreaking nationwide effort to document and share insights to help every PK-12 classroom.
We are a purpose-conceived organization specifically called on by sector leaders to build trust and community, unlock access to information, and activate a bold plan to show what is working where.
We are not an association, company, or sales platform. We are teachers and researchers at heart, born from University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development, and committed to helping every single classroom.
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We pay stipends to educators to document their edtech implementations, using new instruments developed by our sector-wide initiative, the EdTech Genome Project.
We match K-12 educators to reports about edtech implementation written by educators working in similar contexts. Review evidence from educators working in contexts like yours to learn:
We facilitate meaningful conversations and convene leading voices from across the sector to solve collective action problems.
We address a national problem on a local level by working directly with state, regional, and local education agencies to help them improve edtech selection and implementation processes.
Educators estimate that 85% of edtech tools are poor fits or poorly implemented. We work directly to support decision-makers and offer a variety of services to help educators make better-informed decisions about edtech tools and how to best implement them in their learning spaces.
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Our Context Inventory and matching algorithm connect educators to comprehensive reports on edtech implementations by contextual peers.
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Currently 85% of edtech in K-12 is either a bad fit or poorly implemented. By providing info about their implementation contexts, decision-makers can access a trove of hard-won wisdom about what works where, and why.
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Like the children’s story Stone Soup, the Exchange Platform is taking a community-focused approach to crowdsource contributions, for the benefit of all.
Learn more about the platformSince 2019, the EdTech Genome Project has united more than 130 researchers, system leaders, practitioners, advocates, association leaders, and edtech industry representatives to define contextual variables and build the foundation for the Exchange Platform. Through our research, we are constantly learning and creating instruments to measure what matters most in education technology implementation.
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We convened the education sector to achieve consensus on how to describe and define implementation contexts.
We are paying stipends to hundreds of thousands of educators to document their contexts and edtech implementations.
Educators and industry will use our data and analysis to strengthen tool development, selection, and implementation.
Since 2019, the EdTech Genome Project has united more than 130 researchers, system leaders, practitioners, advocates, association leaders, and edtech industry representatives to define contextual variables and build the foundation for the Exchange Platform. Through our research, we are constantly learning and creating instruments to measure what matters most in education technology implementation.
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The time has come to give the education professionals the mechanism, shared language, incentives, and support they need to document their work for the common good.
We know that the effectiveness of technology in the classroom depends on a constellation of factors, from school culture to technical capacity to support from school and district leadership.
