Future Ready Learning

3. Provide students with feature-rich educational devices that are price competitive
with basic textbooks
4. Empower students with digital learning content and experiences aligned with
college- and career-ready standards being adopted and implemented by states
across America
WhiteHouse.gov has more information on ConnectED. For guidance on how these
goals are being operationalized, see the U.S. Department of Education’s Future Ready
Schools: Building Technology Infrastructure for Learning and the White House’s
ConnectED resources.
Future Ready Leaders
To help support leaders’ move toward creating the technical infrastructure and human capacity
necessary to fully implement this vision for transformative learning enabled by technology, the
U.S. Department of Education partnered with the Alliance for Excellent Education and more than
40 other partner organizations to launch Future Ready in November 2014. The department also
challenged superintendents to indicate their commitment to transform teaching and learning in
their districts by signing the Future Ready Pledge. To review the Future Ready Pledge and see
which districts have signed, visit http://www.futurereadyschools.org/take-the-pledge.
Future Ready Focus Areas
Selected by synthesizing the best available research and practice knowledge, the four focus areas
of Future Ready are collaborative leadership, personalized student learning, robust infrastructure,
and personalized professional learning. 3
Collaborative Leadership
• Education leaders develop a shared vision for how technology can support learning and
how to secure appropriate resources to sustain technology initiatives. Leaders seek input
from a diverse team of stakeholders to adopt and communicate clear goals for teaching,
leading, and learning that are facilitated by technology. They model tolerance for risk and
experimentation and create a culture of trust and innovation.
• Leaders communicate with all stakeholders by using appropriate media and technology
tools and establish effective feedback loops. While implementing the vision through a
collaboratively developed strategic plan, leaders use technology as a learning tool for both
students and teachers. Leaders are creative and forward thinking in securing sustainable
streams of human and capital resources to support their efforts, including appropriate partnerships
both within their institutions and beyond.
OFFICE OF Educational Technology
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