Superintendents, School Boards, and Teachers across America agree that a responsive educational system must be built on rigorous standards that drive instruction and hold students and schools accountable. The ED-TECH Group provides the tools that empower district personnel to effectively use technology to address instructional and administrative accountability.

A true educational accountability system will empower teachers, principals, and administrators to “inspect” what they “expect” from teacher and student performance. An educational accountability system can be defined as:

… a closed loop reflecting a chain of responses to perceived needs or demands; an activity or set of activities that emerge to fill those demands; outcomes that result from those activities; and feedback on outcomes to the source of the demands. The feedback may generate new demands or a regeneration of the old ones; in either case, the previous set of activities may be modified or remain intact; a new or altered set of activities may be modified or remain intact; a new or altered set of outcomes may be produced; and the loop is completed again with feedback to the source of the demands.

When this information is tied to a “data base” which tracks data on each student and teacher in the school system, true accountability can be achieved. Student achievement improves when principals and teachers are trained to interpret this data and readjust the teaching curriculum so that it evolves to become the essence of what is required to reinforce and create student success.

The ED-TECH Group provides school districts with the tools, solutions, site-based professional development, and technology required to achieve true accountability through the use of technology. We work closely with the district to provide turnkey solutions for schools … beginning with administrative and instructional technology audits that quickly assess the technology program’s operational, financial, and technical perspectives. Our ”snapshot” of student achievement provides the basis for technology implementation, which will allow educators to “inspect’ what they “expect”. Based on audit results, we work with your staff to develop short- and long-range technology plans that include data warehousing, infrastructure renovations, technology procurement and support, a collaborative and integrated web site that allows parents, teachers, students, and administrators inspect the degree to which student achievement is meeting its annual yearly performance targets. Professional development is then designed and targeted for the improvement of student achievement on the basis of student performance results!

…Imagine teachers entering daily class work grades from the comfort of home, and with the click of a mouse, the grades are averaged and entered into the electronic report card that is printed for students to take home.

…Imagine parents logging onto a website that gives them immediate information on student averages, homework assignments, and email access to the child’s classroom teacher.

…Imagine students previewing their own averages to determine the degree to which they are successful long before the report card is sent home.

…Imagine principals walking into the classroom with graphs that communicate statistically the degree to which students are showing success on state standards and standardized/local assessment test indicators.

…Imagine the superintendent and principal finally having the ability to “inspect” what they “inspect” …as they compare student performance compared against the mean performance for teachers within specific schools and against comparison schools within the district.

…Imagine a teacher’s ability to create success because of the ability visualize how successful students are becoming before the end of the school year!