EdTech Systems Guide – Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation of Edtech

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Education Technology (OET) partnered with The Learning Accelerator (TLA) to develop this guide for educational technology (edtech) leaders in Massachusetts. 

This guide’s primary audience is system-level administrators in charge of overseeing edtech in their district, school, or school system. Depending on the structure of your school or system, this audience may include members of academic teams, technology teams, and/or standalone edtech teams. Given the variety of school systems in this state, we will refer generally to administrators making decisions about edtech as “school and system leaders.” 

This guide aims to be useful to all school and system leaders, whatever your context may be. Throughout the guide there are callout boxes labeled “Thinking About Your Context” that provide additional support for systems with varying contexts.

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EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation

Safe and Supportive Schools Self-Reflection Tool

Welcome to the revised Safe and Supportive Schools Implementation Guide & Self-Reflection Tool. The goal of the self-reflection Tool is to catalyze a reflective and creative inquiry-based, year-long or multi-year process to create and enhance a school`s work to become more safe and supportive for the entire school community (including but not limited to: students, staff, families, and community partners). This tool is intended to assist with documenting current practices that support students` behavioral health ranging from the whole school community to individual students that require more intensive supports. It also examines the role of various school professionals and staff in providing these supports. This process enables schools to identify their most pressing local priorities and create action plans that can be incorporated into School Improvement Plans to address these priorities. It may be helpful to revisit your school`s responses to this tool on a regular (e.g., quarterly, annual) basis to review progress and continually work towards full implementation on a range of practices that address and remove the barriers to learning.

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Safe and Supportive Schools Self-Reflection Tool

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Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Massachusetts MTSS Blueprint

All students are capable of success. A Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) is a framework for how school districts can build the necessary systems to ensure that each and every student feels connected to their learning community and can access grade-level learning and beyond.

The MTSS Blueprint for Massachusetts was updated in 2025. The updated Blueprint unpacks MTSS from three perspectives: why it is important, what it entails, and how to approach implementation.

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2025 MTSS Blueprint

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Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 

Student Learning Experience Report→

An EDWIN report for school and district leaders that helps them understand equity gaps in students’ learning experiences with effective educators, the report shows how often students had assignments with different types of teachers, over the past one to five years.

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Student Learning Experience Report

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Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education