Mission / History

The time had to be right. Public education in Washington has gone through many valiant attempts to right itself but with never a serious enough partnership with the private sector and especially industry. Now with robust new leadership of the schools, a high level of resolve in political leadership, and the engagement of so many in the community, it is time for the nation’s leading technology companies to step forward and do what they can to be of help.

Technology Transforming Education Compact was born simply of the hope that the experience, knowledge, skills and dedication of people working in the education technology industry can be helpful to those responsible for DC’s public school system. That is our mission. Pure and simple. Nothing grand and maybe even reform on a classroom by classroom basis. We are here to test, try, incubate, study, install, observe, structure, tutor, nurture, cajole, and just pain encourage the intelligent use of technology solutions to help kids learn better and faster and to stay in school long enough to acquire technology skills they can use in higher education and in jobs and life skills.

We are technology agnostic. We believe in anything that we can prove works for kids. We do not believe in technology for technology’s sake. We believe technology serves the educational purpose and that it provides an unmatched platform and vehicles for delivering instruction and helping develop analytical organized thinking on the part of students.

We work in partnership with the Office of the Chief Technology Officer for DC and with leadership in DCPS to help educators and the government decide on priorities for technology utilization, installation, testing. We help manage projects that fund and test new models of technology in relation to instruction and help forge coherent plans and strategies for educators. We do not supplant public investment in education nor do we interfere with the administrative processes in DCPS. We are partners in and advocates for change. And since we know that technology will continue to present progressive and recurring iterations for educational use, we hope to be always furnish new models and new hope to educators.