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State Achievement Award
The State Achievement Award recognizes outstanding initiatives from SETDA state and affiliate members and their teams that address meaningful challenges in teaching and learning. These awards celebrate the impact of these programs and projects, offering frameworks for other leaders to effect positive change in their states.
Nomination Process
The State Achievement awards align with SETDA’s priorities: Equity of Access, Digital Content, Interoperability, Professional Learning, and Digital Learning.
SETDA state and affiliate members are eligible to receive an award. Nominations must include a primary category with one or more secondary categories.
The SETDA Membership Engagement Committee reviews all nominations according to the following criteria:
- Impact (40%): The demonstrable, measurable benefit that the program or project has delivered at a state level on teaching and learning
- Alignment with SETDA priorities (20%): Clear connection between one primary and one or more secondary priority areas
- Innovation (15%): How the initiative helps address an educational need in a unique way
- Equity (15%): The breadth of impact to benefit a diversity of districts and students
- Efficiency (10%): Return on investment as measured in dollars, time, or both
The Membership Engagement Committee will notify all recipients 60 days prior to the award ceremony during SETDA’s Leadership Summit.
State, affiliate, and corporate members in good standing may nominate a project or initiative.
Current State Achievement Award Recipients
2024
| Digital Content | Massachusetts | Sustaining Progress in Access and Equity: EdTech Strategic Planning Guide (2024 Edition) and Edtech Peer Learning Cohort (PLC) |
| Digital Learning | Indiana | AI-Powered Platform Pilot Grant |
| Professional Learning | New York | Online Professional Development for ALL Teachers in NYS |
Past State Achievement Award Recipients
2023
| Digital Content | Illinois | Instructional Technology Coaching Program |
| Digital Learning | Nevada | Nevada Course Access Partnership |
| Equity of Access | Massachusetts | Building & Strengthening Equitable EdTech Systems |
| Interoperability | Indiana | Indiana GPS (Graduates Prepared to Succeed) |
| Professional Learning | Indiana | Learning Lab |
2022
| Equity of Access | Connecticut | Everybody Learns – Closing the Digital Divide |
| Digital Learning | Massachusetts | Sustaining Progress in Access and Equity – EdTech Strategic Planning Guide |
| Interoperability | South Carolina | Leveraging Multiple Interoperability Standards to Support Educators |
| Professional Learning | Arkansas | ArkansasIDEAS |
2021
| Equity of Access | New Hampshire | Operation Lemonade |
| Digital Content | Arkansas | Impact with MyVRSpot |
| Digital Learning | Arkansas | Stepping Up & In with Virtual Arkansas |
| Professional Learning | Illinois | Professional Learning Statewide System of Support |