Here’s what each of those trends means for administrators:

High-quality teaching is the key ingredient to high-quality learning. This puts the onus on administrators to continue to invest in immersive and ongoing professional development.
Student engagement is (still) the No. 1 measure of success. Educators must use technology to provide personalized learning and to recreate core classroom experiences when students are absent or learning remotely.
We need to change the way we approach assessment. With high-stakes assessments continuing to place a heavy burden on teachers and students, educators are increasingly relying on a more actionable assessment approach that’s embeddded in the regular instructional cycle.
Both hybrid and digital teaching and learning are here to stay. Students, parents, and teachers have experienced the benefits of staying connected outside of the classroom, and there’s no going back.
There’s still work to do on equity. Providing equitable access to essential technologies–such as web-enabled devices–is expected to remain a top priority for future K-12 funding.
Technology is now essential to teaching and learning. Ed-tech’s most important role is its ability to provide a familiar and consistent foundation for all teaching and learning, allowing educators to build upon the advancements made during the transition to remote learning.

Student engagement and attendance–cited as the best indicators of student success–will only grow in importance in the coming school year, according to Instructure’s survey. There will also be renewed focus on academic achievement, which ranked third but was also cited as an increasingly urgent measure of success. More specifically, 94% of teachers said student engagement was most important, compared to the 91% who cited attendance and 83% who picked academic achievement. These three components landed in the same order in Instructure’s 2021 “State of Education” survey.

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