When school leaders enable teachers and IT specialists to team up, it’s transformative. I’ve seen it in my own district. As a technical operations analyst at Edina Public Schools in Minnesota, I have honest conversations with teachers and students about classroom challenges, then we collaborate to find solutions. Unfortunately, this kind of relationship between educators and district IT specialists is uncommon.
Annually, K–12 schools spend $26 billion to $41 billion on ed tech in the U.S. alone, yet many of those tools sit on the shelf.
According to a survey conducted by Logitech and…