What "jobs" do educators need help t o solve?

In his new book, Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice, Clay Chistensen argues: "Successful innovation can seem like a matter of luck—but it need not be so. Every day, “jobs” arise in people’s lives that they need to resolve. Needing to get one of these jobs done is the mechanism that causes people to “hire” an offering—whether it be a product or a service.."

So what are the jobs in education that school districts want to "hire" services to help resolve:

1. Manage Competencies.  An individual educator or an education entity can create a competency framework that aligns to other source standards documents like the Common Core, TEKS, and Next Generation Science Standards to be used by assessment, content and curriculum management, and student learning record tools.

2. Manage Digital Content and Curriculum.  An individual educator or an education entity can curate a collection of content organized in a logical progression and tagged to learning standards that can be used (via LTI or TCC) by one or more learning management system to support standards-aligned instruction.

3. Deliver Classroom Competency Assessments.  An educator can create and administer a classroom assessment that produces standards-aligned outcome and proficiency level that can be integrated with other assessment results (though xAPI/Caliper).

4. Deliver Interim Benchmark Assessment.  A district assessment office can curate and support classroom administration of common interim benchmark assessments that can be integrated with other assessment results (though xAPI/Caliper).

5. Integrate Embedded Assessment Learning Tools.  An educator, parent, or learner can use an assessment embedded learning tools (e.g. Kahn, IXL, 10 Marks, Accelerated Reader) to supplement and support learning and produce diagnostic assessment data that can be integrated with other assessment results (though xAPI/Caliper).

6. Sustain Access to an Integrated Student Learning Record.  A user can access a view of a student’s learning profile that integrates (though xAPI/Caliper) standards-aligned assessment results (outcomes) from multiple sources including assessment embedded learning tools, interim benchmark assessments, and classroom assessments scored to standard rubrics.

6. Support Personalized Learning.  An educator, learner, parent, or extended learning agent authorized by the parent can access an integrated learning profile that summarizes from multiple assessments instruments the competencies a learner has demonstrated a level of performance and provides access to instructional materials and interventions that are customized to that learner’s profile.