Go from potential outcomes to proven impact
Ensure the supplemental tools you bought for your school or district generate educational return on instruction (eROI) with results you can prove and translate into meaningful teaching and learning every day.
How do you describe your supplemental resources?
As a leader in education, you're accountable for knowing whether your approach to selecting, implementing, and measuring supplemental resources is producing a real return on instruction. ExploreK12™ helps you find out and partners with you to go from potential outcomes to proven impact.
Fragmented resources
Too many disconnected tools with no shared quality standard or clear view of overlap.
Building momentum
Resources work together with a clear plan, but fidelity is still growing.
Proven impact
Coordination is producing a measurable return on instruction.
Start by finding out where your school or district is on this continuum.
The eROI framework:
Five components of a coordinated ecosystem
We built the eROI framework to help you independently evaluate your current digital tools, reduce tech bloat, and transition your resources from potential outcomes to proven impact.
FIDELITY
Are tools being adopted as designed, consistently using it as part of their instruction?
Implementation matters. Establish clear expectations for how resources should be used, monitor actual use, and provide the support educators need for consistent implementation.
QUALITY
Have the tools been properly vetted: evidence-based and standards-aligned?
Evaluate supplemental resources against consistent criteria, including evidence, standards alignment, usability, and purposeful student engagement.
COORDINATION
Do resources work together or overlap and conflict?
Clarify the instructional role of each resource, connect tools to specific instructional needs, and create alignment across literacy, math, science, core instruction, and supplemental resources.
INVESTMENT
What are we putting in: spend, number of tools, time, professional development, and reach
Look beyond purchase price to understand the full investment—including spend, number of tools, educator time, professional development, and reach.
RETURNS
Are we seeing positive outcomes: teacher time, student learning, and strategic-goal progress?
Connect supplemental resources to meaningful returns, including teacher time, student learning, and progress toward strategic goals.
More resources
Keep going at your own pace. More research, more perspective.
Research and evidence
Securing rigorous research from supplemental edtech vendors: What it takes
Impact and value
Educational Return on Instruction: Investing in long-term student success
Impact and value
Choosing edtech that supports student security, equity, and meaningful learning
Connected Offerings
Effective K-12 literacy, math, and science solutions
Redefining your return on instruction is an ongoing process of reflection and alignment, and making sure the tools you have are making an impact. After you’ve completed your eROI Self Assessment, explore our literacy, math, and science solutions to see what may be missing from your K-12 ecosystem.
