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.