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>METAA Announces Mentor Program
The Massachusetts Educational Technology Administrators Association (METAA) is pleased to inform you that the METAA Mentorship Program for Educational Technology Leaders will be launched in Summer 2023.
The METAA Educational Technology Leader Mentorship Program is designed to foster facilitated mentoring connections to support new and current educational technology leaders in developing and advancing their career skills including:
• Taking an active role in the school district’s long-term strategic and operational goals
• Understanding the educational environment to recognize how technology enhances the student’s educational experience
METAA’s most current project is the design of a data dashboard to collect ed tech-related resources across school districts. The data dashboard gives a window into the extensive resources used within your school and across school districts throughout the state. Once populated by each school district, the data dashboard will be an invaluable resource. We need each school district to participate in populating their information. Although it will take some time upfront, it will benefit all moving forward.
We need you! Please click the link above so you will receive your spreadsheets to populate and access the METAA Data Dashboard. Once registered and your school district information is populated, you will be able to access the entire dashboard. One person per district which should be the Ed Tech Director or designee.
>UPDATES: GUIDANCE and PURCHASES
EdTech Systems Guide: Equity-Driven Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation, developed by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)’s Office of Education Technology (OET) in partnership with The Learning Accelerator (TLA). In May 2021, the Department released the EdTech Strategic Planning Guide: Sustaining Progress in Access and Equity, offering school and system leaders guidance related to intentional and strategic edtech planning and resource allocation. This new guide builds off of that foundational work by offering support in developing and strengthening systems for edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation to ensure that edtech is effectively chosen, powerfully implemented, and properly evaluated for effectiveness and equity across the state.
The resource is designed primarily for system-level administrators in charge of overseeing Educational Technology in their district, school, or school system. Depending on the structure of a school or system, this audience may include members of academic teams, technology teams, and/or standalone Ed Tech teams.
While this guide has been designed specifically for Massachusetts school systems, the guidance is applicable to schools outside of the state as well.
