In a brand new particular report, EdWeek Market Temporary appears at college districts’ greatest shopping for priorities over the approaching 12 months, and the forces which are shaping these choices.
College District Buying Priorities, 2025-26 makes use of authentic survey information and evaluation by EdWeek Market Temporary’s editorial group to offer our members insights on what’s across the nook out there.
Many faculty district leaders have informed our editorial group that they’re returning to one thing approaching pre-stimulus-era budgetary norms. However that doesn’t essentially imply that they see the following few years as secure.
College District Buying Priorities 2025-26 is our 4th annual particular report inspecting Okay-12 spending priorities throughout product classes, in addition to ache factors, and elements influencing shopping for choices.
Like previous experiences, it’s primarily based on a nationally consultant on-line survey performed by the EdWeek Analysis Heart. We additionally use different analysis collected over the previous 12 months to discover extra questions that matter to firms Okay-12 leaders’ expectations for distributors, the most important skilled challenges district directors and lecturers face, and what sort of messaging from firms appeals to patrons in class techniques.
Moreover, the report appears at how faculty district leaders suppose distributors may also help them handle notably vexing issues—comparable to staffing chaos, and protracted cultural battles taking part in out over curriculum.
Particularly, the report gives EdWeek Market Temporary members intel on the next:
• Whether or not faculty district leaders anticipate spending extra, much less, or the identical quantities in fiscal 2025-26 as throughout the present 12 months in varied product classes – together with core and supplemental curriculum, evaluation, social-emotional studying, gadgets, and extra.
• The extent to which faculty districts anticipate to see their spending altered by elements such because the lack of federal stimulus help; inflation; adjustments in state funding; and shifts of their scholar enrollment.
• The most important skilled challenges district and college leaders and lecturers face, from challenges with staffing to protecting college students engaged to enhancing their skilled abilities.
• What steps Okay-12 officers imagine distributors can take to assist them successfully handle staffing turnover.
• How faculty districts’ total appetites for particular sorts of ed-tech merchandise are altering.
• The options that directors anticipate to see in merchandise utilizing synthetic intelligence – centered on college students’ studying experiences, assist for educators, and extra.
• What sorts of messaging about merchandise – round pricing, the usage of information, adherence to state or native requirements – appeals most to directors and educators?
• How a lot time per week faculty district leaders spend researching merchandise, and the way lengthy it takes them from figuring out a must committing to buying a product.
It’s price noting that regardless of the prevailing uncertainty they face in navigating the expectations of faculty districts amid altering market situations, many training firms are comparatively optimistic about what lies forward.
Separate EdWeek Market Temporary surveys taken of training firms have indicated that whereas companies anticipate robust situations for gross sales over the following 12 months, they foresee a rebound in years two and three.
When you’ve had the possibility to undergo our findings, tell us how they align with what your group is listening to from faculty techniques, and what questions you have got about what’s forward.
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