Like educational technology professionals across the U.S., I invested most of 2020 assisting teachers browse the world of edtech– discussing video conferencing tools, and showing how our districts chosen edtech can support knowing– as we quickly transitioned to remote knowing.

Ysletas 2,800 instructors should fulfill the requirements of our districts varied students, consisting of a high population of dual-language learners, migrant learners, and trainees from economically disadvantaged communities. Our instructors need to be focused on offering the content those trainees require to build skills and knowledge, not stressing about how theyre providing it.

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In Ysletas connected class, were utilizing instructional innovations to build partnership, foster imagination, separate knowing, and boost student achievement– all of which make our existing curriculum more impactful.

Erick Buenrostro, Digital Resource and Content Specialist, Ysleta Independent School DistrictErick Buenrostro is the digital resource and content professional for Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso, Texas, which serves about 38,000 students.

Now that were approaching the two-year anniversary of this improvement, Im pleased to say that technology adoption is baked into the curriculum at Ysleta Independent School District. Our instructors are much less most likely to ask my colleagues and I how to utilize an edtech tool than how they can integrate it into their lessons, whether those lessons are taking location in a physical class or online.