For Educators

Educators need to remain in the driver’s seat of what happens in their classrooms.

87% of educators use EdTech in their classrooms regularly; evidence that we are firmly in the digital age of education. This shift in how and where learning happens requires a focus on two critical factors:

  1. Ensuring the efficacy and accessibility of the tools that end up in our classrooms; and

  2. Promoting the effective application of technology to enrich teaching and learning, advance equity, and foster student wellbeing.

We believe the only way we accomplish these goals is by keeping educators in the drivers seat when it comes to choosing what tools end up in our classrooms, and how best to use those tools to improve student experiences and outcomes.

How we can support

Project FoundED is a national non profit focused on improving equitable learning outcomes for all learners by removing barriers to EdTech innovation and adoption. Specifically, we provide training, coaching, and resources that help educators enhance their school or district’s capacity to discover needs-aligned EdTech, evaluate fit and efficacy with their students, and implement EdTech in ways that yield measurable outcomes for students.

If you’re looking for the right EdTech to meet your priority needs or if you’re looking to enhance your capacity to discover, evaluate, and use EdTech to advance your goals, we would love to partner with you.

What We’ve Learned

There is a severe lack of process and structure.

Educators have been telling us that there is a severe lack of process and structure around how schools decide on technology procurement, and this has some knock on effects:

Decisions get caught between IT and Instruction/Curriculum leading to paralysis.

There are often time constraints on budgets, leading to rushed decisions that often yield ineffectual implementations.

Educator agency is lost in this lack of process. Even if a teacher is excited about a technology, lack of process leads to abandoning the idea.

Classroom educators are overwhelmed as it is and can’t also take on the discovery and evaluation of new instructional technology.

“What I appreciate about [Project FoundED] is that it really does bring people from both sides of this work together”

-District Superintendent

“Successful technology integration is more than just getting the tools into the classroom, it is providing innovative approaches to engage authentic learning in and outside the classroom. Our teachers need this support to be successful”

-School Principal