Chapter 8: Recommendations We expect that associations and societies have a key role in strengthening trust. Some important associations like the State Educational Technology Directors Association and the Consortium for School Network work with edtech leaders, and parallel organizations like EDUCAUSE work with postsecondary leaders. Other associations and societies work with teachers, education leaders, and education staff developers. Industry networks, like the EdSAFE AI Alliance, can bring together industry leaders to work together to foster trust. Additional societies bring researchers together. These societies and associations have the reach necessary to bring all parts of the educational ecosystem into discussions about trust and also the ability to represent the views of their constituents in crosscutting policy discussions. 8.7. Recommendation #5: Inform and Involve Educators Our listening sessions also asked for more specific direction on the question of what education leaders should do (see Figure 15). The most frequent responses fit three clusters: the need for guidelines and guardrails, strengthening the role of teachers, and re-focusing research and development. These are activities that constituents are asking for and that could expand trust. The recommendations that follow respond to these requests. Figure 15: Listening session attendees prioritized involving practitioners, research, and evaluation and the need for guidelines and guardrails. 97 | P a g e
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