Many factors, including the loss of ESSER funds, are impacting budgets in our educational institutions today, resulting in staff turnover or transition, purchasing freezes, and non-renewal of edtech tools. Despite such loss, the stakes are higher than ever before. It’s a critical time to pivot the mindset from “there’s no…
You’ve determined your district or campus needs a technology management system and successfully gained buy-in with a strong business case, so what’s next? With the greatest challenge – the budget – still ahead, you’ll need to thoroughly prepare for common objections and perhaps present new budgeting strategies not previously considered.…
If your district or campus is considering a new technology management system and you’ve engaged the appropriate stakeholders, the next step is preparing the business case. Skipping the first step could be a costly mistake if you attempt to build your case without interviewing others and capturing every problem the…
Is your district or campus considering a new technology management system? Like any new edtech purchase, the process of researching, validating, and acquiring a system – that involves many stakeholders – can be long and convoluted. With the right strategies in place, you can avoid common roadblocks and navigate a…
Words like “management system”, “automation”, and “workflows” can be intimidating and often perceived as costly. Instead of learning and adapting to these concepts and technologies, it can be easier to avoid the risk and give in to self-doubt and myths often associated with adopting anything new. A technology management system…
The act of approving and acquiring new technologies in K-12 school districts today is a convoluted mess of forms, emails, and broken or ignored processes. Admittedly, a “process” is, unfortunately, non-existent in many. Most of this burden has fallen into the hands of the Technology Director since the technology team…
Back in 2019, Glimpse K-12 shared a staggering statistic suggesting two-thirds of software licenses were unused in K-12 schools. Along came COVID-19, and “access to, and the use of, digital tools increased so quickly, and to such large extent, that adoption was haphazard, lacked structure and resulted in a number…
Our previous blog post, Learning Loss Recovery Tops K-12 Priorities for 2021-2022 School Year, discussed the learning loss that educators are facing due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is difficult to determine the exact amount of learning loss and in what areas, but educators are confident it exists. In addition to…
Our previous blog post, K-12 Priorities in the Era of a Pandemic, highlights the research Veracity conducted in the fall of 2021 to learn educator challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The research overwhelming (nearly three quarters) showed learning-loss recovery and social-emotional needs as the top priority educators are desperately…
At Veracity, we have been studying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 school and district purchasing decisions – specifically educational technologies designed to improve students’ academic achievement. It is important to understand how – and if – these decisions are being prioritized among a multitude of competing, and…
