Three focus areas for evolving district ed-tech procurement: connect with vendors, within districts, and across districts¶

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Description¶

The report's concluding section distills the workshop concepts into three focus areas at differing scales of stakeholder involvement: connecting with entrepreneurs and vendors to increase development of relevant products, connecting within districts through communication strategies that build empathy and clarity, and connecting across districts. The third area asks districts to "Leverage the League's scale to increase transparency into district purchases and increase district buying power." Each focus area is accompanied by 'what if' prompts districts can use to experiment.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Each focus area requires differing levels of stakeholder involvement and support

Constraints¶

• Framed as areas for districts to explore and experiment with, not evaluated interventions

Target Learners¶

• K-12 school districts and their procurement, finance, and instructional leaders

Target Learning Goals¶

• Making technology purchasing more efficient, informed, and empathetic to support learning

Affordances¶

• Six Barriers Edtech Procurement Taxonomy

Related Strategies¶

• Edtech Incubator Concept
• Open Procurement Concept
• 7 Steps to Creative Financing: a stakeholder-team process for identifying financing for ed-tech
• Better Planning, Better Process: bottom-up procurement planning through direct contact with teachers and administrators
• Three pivots for equity-centered solution sourcing: redefine readiness criteria, reconceptualize expertise, and reimagine procurement pathways

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Evolving Ed-Tech Procurement in School Districts. (2013). Digital Promise. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/d5ac5c19-03f4-4e40-ab47-666c38a2ce5d